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UC Los Angeles Department of Art History
Graduate Digital Cultures Group announces
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Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia:
Rendering the Artistic Object
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02.01.02 - 02.02.02
The conference will be held in Los Angeles, CA.
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Deadline for the submission of proposals
is October 15, 2001.
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(Graduate Conference
Terms)
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- This conference aims to examine a variety
of aesthetic, political, and pragmatic effects of digital
technology on the status of the artistic object.
- We welcome and encourage interdisciplinary
and unorthodox approaches.
- We are considering proposals by graduate
students for 20-minute workshop presentations expanding
on any of the following areas:
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Production:
Impact of digital technologies on questions of medium.
Reception: Theorizing notions of interactivity and
audience.
Politics: Questions of communities, access, and
the rhetoric of revolution.
Language: Developing a language of aesthetics specific
to digital media.
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Sessions are scheduled in 2-hour slots, with
a suggested maximum of four presentations from varied disciplines
per session. Each workshop will be facilitated by a plenary
speaker from the first day: Steve
Kurtz, Carnegie Mellon; and Lev
Manovich, UC San Diego; and Scott McCloud.
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Digital Cultures Group
Department of Art History
UC Los Angeles
Box 951417
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
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