February 12, 2007
Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms
Call for Papers
Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms: Call for Papers - Southeastern College Art Conference :: October 17-20, 2007.
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.
Questions 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[at]gcsu.edu
Posted by jo at February 12, 2007 02:28 PM
