From jh at urbanartscape.org Sun Oct 8 17:45:43 2006 From: jh at urbanartscape.org (Jan Hatt-Olsen) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:45:43 +0200 Subject: [multipliCity] The City as a Collection of Poetry Message-ID: <004a01c6eaf1$3a12b400$5b7cd7c3@cameraobscura> The City as a Collection of Poetry Today it is not utopian to transform urban space, into books, into collections of poetry. By using screens, dynamic digital screens, other forms of dynamic screens or static screens. In my case transparent plexiglass with poems printed on them www.lyrik-installation.dk/Vaerloese ( which is a possiblity there would have been imposible to put into reality because of the expenses without digital production technics ) These will be the topic of a speech I will give at the conference What is a City ? The Western Humanities Alliance http://wha.ucdavis.edu 25th annual conference, hosted by the University of Calgary. The full program and registration to the conference can be found at http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH/Western%20Humanities%20Conference.html I hope others form MultipliCity is joining the conference. The program covers a large range of aspects of the City Best regards Jan ---------------------------------------------- Jan Hatt-Olsen Urban Artscape www.urbanartscape.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/multiplicity_listcultures.org/attachments/20061008/2e834d78/attachment.html From j.tay at qut.edu.au Fri Oct 13 02:11:22 2006 From: j.tay at qut.edu.au (Jinna Tay) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:11:22 +1000 Subject: [multipliCity] FW: [ACS] InEvidence conference Message-ID: <00b601c6ee5c$1efa4d40$0e92b583@qut.edu.au> FYI ... _____ From: Association for Cultural Studies [mailto:ACS at uta.fi] On Behalf Of Johan Fornas Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2006 6:23 PM To: ACS at uta.fi Subject: [ACS] InEvidence conference InEvidence: Witnessing Cities and the Case of Berlin Conference Invitation University of Cambridge, 12-14 July 2007 The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields in order to consider how cities make themselves evident in their architectures and topographies and are made evident in the visual culture produced in and about them. It will address both general, conceptual questions of modern urban environment and visual culture and the particular evidence of a case city: Berlin. The first strand of the conference will assess the role of the evidential in our thinking about modern cities in the wake of the visual and topographical turns in the humanities and social sciences. Topographical and architectural concerns have made inroads into a variety of disciplines and opened up an arena of cross-disciplinary debate. We are concerned here to consider how the contemporary city - from the institutional to the congested, the transformative to the memorial - elicits cultural critical interests, how it displays and engages multiple levels of process and appropriation. At the same time, we wish to explore the ways in which visual culture works to intervene in, and produce alternative forms of evidence from, the urban environment. The second strand of the conference will seek to take the measure of the different forms of witnessing that have operated in the city of Berlin from its early twentieth-century heyday to the new aspirations of the capital of the Berlin Republic. As a city with a uniquely drastic twentieth-century political history, the parade-ground and battle-ground of profoundly antagonistic regimes, Berlin can claim a paradigmatic status for thinking about the construction of ideology in urban form, about how conflicting interests, present and historical, public and personal, are made evident, or not. Its recent history, whether as a city of trauma or as a global capital of espionage, is laden with experience and activities that challenge conventional ideas of the evidential, in epistemological, ontological, ethical, and juridical terms. The topographical and architectural organisation of the city, and the ways in which this is culturally constructed and represented, are under complex and contradictory pressures: to bear adequate witness to its various pasts and to do justice to its prospects. Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum provides a paradigm case here. At the same time, the official effort of memorialisation and reconstruction is often at odds with the kinds of evidence that are produced more unofficially. The contestation over the future of the Palace of the Republic is only the most recent in a series of culture battles waged in and over Berlin, battles over what should be made evident in, and taken in evidence of, the city. The conference will involve academic participants from a variety of disciplines both within the University and beyond: architecture and urban studies, cultural history and geography, film and visual arts, political theory, and sociology. It will foster interdisciplinary debate between established scholars of international stature and emerging scholars, including graduate students. And it will do work of cultural outreach, by engaging discussion between academics and a variety of practitioners working at the leading edge of urban environmental development and visual culture. Indeed, several of our contributors cross this divide in their work. Thematic areas to be included in the conference may cover: Memory: temporal topographies, trajectories, and traces Institutions: politics and representation/legislation, partition/inclusion, public/private Transformations: outside/inside, empty/full, forward/reverse, centre/margin Visual knowledge: site/sight, surface/insight, surveillance/secrecy Speakers The list of those to be invited to participate includes: Kutlug Ataman (visual artist - Istanbul/London/Berlin) Victor Burgin (visual artist/art historian and theorist - London) Tacita Dean (visual artist - London/Berlin) Ed Dimendberg (film/cultural scholar - Irvine) Thomas Elsaesser (film/cultural scholar - Amsterdam) Mary Fulbrook (historian - London) Daniel Libeskind (architect/writer - New York) Richard Sennett (cultural geographer - London) Anthony Vidler (architectural scholar - Cooper Union) Janet Ward (cultural historian - Nevada) Details The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge (UK) and in cooperation with Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH). The conference will be hosted in the newly developed Cripps Court conference centre of Magdalene College, and it is anticipated that it will be accompanied by screenings of work by attending artists. The conference will be structured as a 2.5 day event. The two strands of the conference will be distributed over the Friday and Saturday, preceded by a Thursday half day, programmed as an inaugurating afternoon and reception. A special keynote address, also open to non-delegates, will be scheduled either on the Thursday afternoon as an introductory event, inaugurating the main body of the conference on Friday morning, or closing the conference programme on Saturday. The conference days will be started off by a special presentation given either by an artist or a scholar of international stature. These will be followed by plenary sessions and panel discussions, and complemented by selected screenings and projections of visual arts material from invited artists. Contact Dr. Andrew Webber Reader in Modern German and Comparative Culture University of Cambridge Churchill College Storey's Way Cambridge CB3 0DS (+44) (0)1223 336211 ajw12 at cam.ac.uk Rositza Alexandrova - Uta Staiger - Henriette Steiner - Andrew Webber * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe send an e-mail message to listserv at uta.fi with no subject and "unsubscribe" (without quotes) as the only content of the message * ************************************************************** ACS List rules, signoff instructions, and other important stuff: http://listserv.uta.fi/archives/acs.html * ************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/multiplicity_listcultures.org/attachments/20061013/dac6fddd/attachment.html From j.tay at qut.edu.au Fri Oct 13 03:23:46 2006 From: j.tay at qut.edu.au (Jinna Tay) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:23:46 +1000 Subject: [multipliCity] FW: UPDATE: American Art & Architecture (11/3/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07) Message-ID: <00d901c6ee66$3a95ab80$0e92b583@qut.edu.au> Sorry for cross-posting... Might be of interest? jinna --------------------------------- ACA/PCA National Conference Boston 2007 American Art and Architecture Call for Papers The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas" for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007. Papers on topics related to questions of identity, patriotism and nationalism within the broader categories of Latino, Native, African American and Canadian art and architecture will be considered. We are especially interested in papers which offer a cross-disciplinary perspective, such as art and architecture in literature, film, and other media. Open sessions for papers on American arts of a less specific theme are also planned. Selected papers may be published. A digital projector will be provided for these sessions. For further information on the conference check the web site at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca Or contact the Art & Architecture Area Chair Robert Sheardy sheardyr at ferris.edu and sheardyr at aol.com Proposals for papers for three and four person panels on any topic related to Art and Architecture in North America should be submitted to the e-mail addresses above. Paste a 150 word proposal in an e-mail cover letter which includes a one paragraph c.v. and a note on AV needs. Proposals must be received by November 3, 2006 ========================================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP at english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj at english.upenn.edu ========================================================== From j.tay at qut.edu.au Mon Oct 16 01:47:03 2006 From: j.tay at qut.edu.au (Jinna Tay) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:47:03 +1000 Subject: [multipliCity] FW: London in Text and History, 1400-1700 (UK) (3/1/07; 9/13/07-9/15/07) Message-ID: <005d01c6f0b4$374cd700$0492b583@qut.edu.au> Fyi ... Apologies for cross posting Jinna London in Text and History, 1400-1700 13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford Organisers: Ian Archer (Oxford), Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan History, London), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Paulina Kewes (Oxford) Plenary speakers include: Paul Griffiths, Rob Hulme, Mark Jenner, Mark Knights and Peter Stallybrass CALL FOR PAPERS This conference will focus on the variety of metropolitan identities, and how these were constructed, represented, and contested by contemporaries through a variety of media, including text (broadly defined), visual culture, maps, architecture and performance. Between 1400 and 1700, London expanded hugely in population; it was affected by religious and political upheaval; it emerged from the shadow of its near-neighbour European competitors to become a world metropolis; and its physical face was transformed by the dissolution and the Great Fire. Our concern, however, is not so much with what these political, economic, or religious changes were but rather how they were figured in a range of forms and genres: ballads, drama, civic shows, sermons, pamphlets, poems, urban chronicles, topographical guides, paintings, engravings, and maps. Lively literatures exist for medieval and early modern London but they rarely engage with each other nor do studies of post-Restoration London connect with the pre-civil war period. Consequently, plenary speakers will range widely to set up the major areas of debate, while the panels will be designed to encompass broad time-spans and to facilitate exchange among scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including history, literature, art history, architecture and cartography. The conference will also reflect on the impact of some 10-15 yearsworth of unprecedented scholarly attention to London. We would particularly welcome proposals for papers relating to the following topics: Ideas and beliefs * The idea of the City. How contemporaries understood the city in local, national, and international terms * Citizenship. The shaping and contestation of notions of citizenshipin London * History and civic memory. Chronography, chorography, and civic history. The ways Londonersidentities were informed by their sense of the citys past and by the associations of particular places * Belief and the citizen. Perceptions of the place of religion in the life of the capital; responses to and interpretations of religious change and controversy Places and people * The urban landscape. Ideas of civic/communal/private space; perceptions of boundaries, streetscapes and neighbourhoods; the representation of Londons physical expansion * Urban deviance. The shaping of languages of deviance by the metropolitan experience; the representation of disorder and criminality * Visual London. The changing ways in which the city was represented to itself and to others in maps, prints, and paintings * Inclusion and exclusion: the problem of the stranger. Representations of aliensand foreigners; newcomers and the problem of marginality * Londons business and commerce. The perception and representation of economic change and the citys position in relation to other cities; consumerism; financial and productive network Texts and art * Literary London. The ways in which writings about London were both shaped by and shaped the identities of Londoners * Civic entertainments. Lord Mayors Shows, royal entries: pageantry, display, and politics * Communication and information. Licit and illicit communication; the production and consumption of advertising and propaganda; gossip and civic reputation * Readers, writers and the circulation of texts. Reading communities in the city; the creation of cultural networks Proposals for papers (300 words max) should be sent by email to ian.archer at history.ox.ac.uk or t.hill at bathspa.ac.uk by 1st March 2007 (NB. this is an extended deadline). -------------------------------- Dr Ian Gadd School of English & Creative Studies Bath Spa University Newton Park Bath BA2 9BN i.gadd at bathspa.ac.uk / 01225-875455 (alternative e-mail: gadd_academic at yahoo.co.uk) ========================================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP at english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj at english.upenn.edu ========================================================== From j.tay at qut.edu.au Tue Oct 31 00:48:26 2006 From: j.tay at qut.edu.au (Jinna Tay) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:48:26 +1000 Subject: [multipliCity] FW: [csaa-forum] Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics UNSW - FundedPhD Message-ID: <001701c6fc7d$e5213c70$0292b583@qut.edu.au> Fyi ... Jinna -----Original Message----- From: csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au [mailto:csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Francis Maravillas Sent: Monday, 30 October 2006 4:03 PM To: csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au Subject: [csaa-forum] Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics UNSW - FundedPhD Centre for Contemporary Art & Politics, UNSW Funded PhD place The Centre for Contemporary Art & Politics, based at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW is offering a PhD place with an Australian Postgraduate Award in connection with an Australian Research Council funded project: CONSTRUCTION, CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY: MEASURING ASIAN ART'S CONTRIBUTION TO CONTEMPORARY CULTURE The project offers training in curatorial practice and the opportunity to work on exhibition projects with Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Gallery 4A and the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai. The PhD thesis may focus on an aspect of either cross cultural curatorial practice, contemporary Asian art, diaspora/migration, contemporary theories of community, or on a theme related to the larger project. Applicants must have a good honours degree, or Masters by Research or equivalent. Entry is by proposal. Inquiries: A/Prof Jill Bennett, Director, CCAP _______________________________________ csaa-forum discussion list of the cultural studies association of australasia www.csaa.asn.au change your subscription details at http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum