<nettime-ann> Call for Papers: Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms

[Mason Dixon <Mason@ArtAfterNext.org>]

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Patrick Holbrook:

Call for papers -

Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms
@ SECAC 2007 (Southeastern College Art Conference)

Beyond using the internet as a way to show representations of visual and performance work, artists have been using pre-existing dynamic content web sites as the actual site of the work. One of the first projects of this nature included Keith Obadike selling his blackness on eBay. More recently, Cary Peppermint’s Department of Networked Performance, an educational situation, uses MySpace as its host. The Gif Show also used MySpace, appropriately, as a parallel site for a curatorial project in real space about the aesthetics of low-bit production. A public art competition and gallery shows have suddenly been popping up in Second Life, a virtual world created by users and inhabited by their avatars, which interact with each other in real-time.
Some of the topics raised may include, but are not limited to: How are artists currently using these and similar spaces? Are these projects considered interventions, or otherwise? Are these spaces appropriate for undergraduate education projects? How do real curatorial spaces intersect with these virtual spaces? What do these spaces, with or without the art world, mean within visual culture contexts? Please propose your presentation as it pertains to any field - practice, history/theory/criticism, museum studies, and/or education.

Patrick Holbrook, Georgia College & State University

Email: patrick.holbrook@gcsu.edu
(Please let me know if you have any questions, if I can help you with anything, or even if you are just thinking about it)

Proposals are due May 1st, 2007. Conference is October 17-20, 2007 in Charleston, West Virginia.
http://www.unc.edu/~rfrew/SECAC/annual_conference.html 

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