Reproduction on Film conference 23-25 Se

Reproduction on Film conference
23-25 September 2015
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Reproduction is one of the most persistently generative themes in the
history of cinema. Storks, cabbage fairies, golems, homunculi, robots,
parasitic aliens, and clones have fascinated film-makers and audiences for
more than a century. Today we have grown accustomed not only to the once
controversial portrayals of sperm, eggs, and embryos in science and
medicine, but also to the artificial wombs, monstrous creations, and
dystopian futures of science fiction and fantasy. Yet, while scholars have
explored key films and genres, especially in response to the recent cycle
of Hollywood ‘mom coms’, the analytic potential of reproduction on film
remains largely untapped. This conference aims to explore reproduction as a
theme to unite diverse strands of film history that are not usually
considered in the same frame. Reproduction can link films across a wide
range of periods, national cinemas, and genres as different as slapstick
and horror, melodrama and social realism, sex education and experimental.
Moreover, biological reproduction is a potent metaphor for the mechanical
reproduction of cinematography.

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/filmconference.html

Conference “Doing the Body in the 21st

Conference “Doing the Body in the 21st Century”
 
Bodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized, aging, acting, voting, merging, migrating, moving, constructing, creating, performing.
 
The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh invites abstracts for a transdisciplinary conference:

However conceived—as embodied subjectivities or collectivities, as bodies of literature or land mass—bodies remain the sites and subjects of theorizing, engineering, action, affect, art, and control. At this cultural moment with global technologies shrinking distances between some bodies, yet exposing chasms between others, at a time when STEM are transforming the humanities and arts, considerations of how bodies of all types are represented, theorized, studied, and transformed are themselves in a period of transition. Because the study of the body and of bodies has changed dramatically in the last decade, we propose to gather a group of diverse scholars to talk across traditional disciplines and to take stock of where these studies are and where they are heading.
 
Papers considering studies of the body or bodies are sought for a conference to be held March 31-April 2, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh.  
 
Please send a 200-word abstract for a twenty-minute paper on some aspect of the body/bodies to bodyconf@pitt.edu by October 15, 2015. Panels of three abstracts on a related topic are also welcome.

 
See https://body.secure.pitt.edu/ for more information.

Franz-Roh-Stipendien zur Kunst der Moder

Franz-Roh-Stipendien zur Kunst der Moderne und
Gegenwart (Muenchen)
Application deadline: Aug 5, 2015
The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and the Institut für
Kunstgeschichte of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich seek
applications for four Franz Roh Fellowships in Modern and Contemporary
Art (19th-21st century) at the Studienzentrum Moderne – Bibliothek
Herzog Franz von Bayern at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.

The Fellowships are intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral
scholars (who have graduated within the last five years) who are
working on a project related to modern or contemporary art. Fellows are
expected to maintain a presence at the ZI, to present the Fellowship
project, and to partake in the activities of the ZI and the Institut
für Kunstgeschichte of the LMU.

The Fellowships last three months and can commence either in October
2015 or in January 2016.

In addition to a CV and a list of publications and presentations,
applicants should submit a project précis of no more than three pages,
as well as the names and contact information of two reference providers.

Applications should be submitted electronically by August 5, 2015 to:
fellowships@zikg.eu.
For further questions please contact
Nadine Dobrowolski
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10, D – 80333 München
n.dowbrowolski@zikg.eu.

Photography Performing Humor (Brussels,

Photography Performing Humor (Brussels, 24-25 Nov 15)

Brussels, November 24 – 25, 2015
Deadline: Sep 1, 2015

Organizers: LUCA School of Arts – KU Leuven – Lieven Gevaert Research
Centre for Photography – Lieven Gevaert Leerstoel vzw

The conference will explore the nature and meaning of the relationship
between photography, performance and humor within the field of visual
arts and visual culture. Although humor is clearly omnipresent in a
wide spectrum of photographic practices — ranging from advertising or
art photography to family snapshots with their obligatory ‘smile’ or
the classic Tower of Pisa joke — the topic has yet to be fully
discovered by researchers. While in recent years photography theory has
witnessed the affective turn, its focus remained largely on
photographic representations of suffering, trauma and loss. It is no
coincidence then, that one of the central metaphors to think the
affective quality of the medium, Barthes’ punctum, relates affect to
being wounded. This conference resolutely chooses to elaborate a
lighter, humorous side of photography and aims to map different
strategies and practices.

We are more specifically interested in the triad photography –
performance – humor and the ways in which the staging of the (human)
body or other performative gestures elicit humorous photographic
effects. We welcome lectures, artists’ talks and performances in order
to assemble, exchange and confront different perspectives and
approaches, both in theory and practice.

Please submit a 250 word abstract by September 1st, 2015 to
Liesbeth.Decan@luca-arts.be or Mieke.Bleyen@arts.kuleuven.be,
Authors will be informed about acceptance of their proposals by
September 7, 2015.

Lecture Series: The production of meanin

Lecture Series: The production of meaning (Salzburg, 20
Jul -29 Aug 15)

Salzburg, Austria, July 20 – August 29, 2015
<http://www.summeracademy.at/events>

THE PRODUCTION OF MEANING

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Programme of events

The 2015 lecture series, with distinguished international speakers,
focuses on the subject of The production of meaning. Luis Camnitzer,
Tony Chakar, Ekaterina Degot, Florian Malzacher (in a Lunch Talk) and
David Riff ask what, in the field of art, has or assumes meaning, and
why. How is meaning produced, and who decides on it? How and by whom is
meaning perceived? What is the difference between the production of
knowledge and that of meaning? What is the relation between meaning and
effect – that is, is there a connection between the production of
meaning and specific impacts on society?
We have also invited the directors of the three “major” Salzburg art
institutions to talk about the concept in their institutions with focus
on The production of meaning in Museum and Kunstverein.

Citizen Heritage – Special Issue of Hist

Citizen Heritage – Special Issue of Historic Environment
(2016)
Melbourne Australia
Deadline: Aug 10, 2015
Citizen Heritage: provoking participation in place through digital
technologies
Special Issue of Historic Environment 2016
Historic Environment is the refereed journal of Australia ICOMOS. We
invite papers for a special issue titled ‘Citizen Heritage: provoking
participation in place through digital technologies’. Papers should
critically explore how new modes of community participation and
collaboration in heritage sites and areas can arise in tandem with the
creative deployment of digital and mobile technologies and media. By
adopting the term ‘citizen heritage’ we are consciously borrowing from
the field of citizen science to signal a shift towards distributed
forms of grass-roots knowledge production and experience surrounding
the heritage, history and memory of local places. We are especially
interested in work that extends broad themes in heritage studies to
include new modes of interpretation and curation, community heritage,
citizen participation, and digital media. Papers might take the form of
theoretical investigations that draw from heritage, museum and memory
studies.
· Include names of authors; affiliation; 100 word biography on a
separate cover page.
· Send correspondence to hlewi@unimelb.edu.au and/or
wsmith@unimelb.edu.au

Experiments in Art and Technology (Salzb

Experiments in Art and Technology (Salzburg, 26 Jul 15)

Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 26.07.2015
<http://www.museumdermoderne.at/de/ausstellungen/aktuell/details/mdm/eat-experiments-in-art-and-technology/>

Symposium zur Ausstellung “E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology”

26. Juli 2015, 14.30–18 Uhr
Das Symposium wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten.

Das Museum der Moderne Salzburg präsentiert die erste umfassende
Rückschau auf die Aktivitäten von Experiments in Art and Technology
(E.A.T.), einem einzigartigen Verbund von Ingenieuren, Künstlerinnen
und Künstlern, der in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren Geschichte
geschrieben hat. Künstler wie Robert Rauschenberg und Robert Whitman
taten sich mit Billy Klüver, dem visionären Ingenieur der Bell
Telephone Laboratories, sowie seinem Kollegen Fred Waldhauer zu dieser
wegweisenden Initiative zusammen, um in einer beispiellosen
Zusammenarbeit Kunstwerke zu realisieren.