Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:31:15 -0700
From: Robert Hamm <rbh1@umail.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Artistic Object UC
Graduate Conference

Dear UC chairs and MSO's:

Please forward this message to all the current graduate students in your
humanities or social science program. In an effort to save trees and paper,
we are only doing this call for papers by electronic means. Therefore, this
email call is your student's only chance to participate in this conference,
funded in part by the Office of the President, through the Digital Cultures
Project Multi Campus Research Group.

William B. Warner
Professor of English
Director, The Digital Cultures Project
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/
Department of English
University of California/ Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Home phone: 805-569-5636

Dear UC Graduate Students:

We invite you to submit a proposal for the following conference:

Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Artistic Object

02.01.02 - 02.02.02

The conference will be held at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA.

Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 15, 2001.

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:

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.

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: Katherine Hayles, UC
Los Angeles; Steve Kurtz, Carnegie Mellon; and Lev Manovich, UC San Diego.

Submission format: We encourage electronic submissions. Please submit a
one-page proposal or abstract and a current résumé to Amy Pederson
(pederson@humnet.ucla.edu) by September 30, 2001. Alternatively, mail your
proposal to:

Digital Cultures Graduate Conference
Department of Art History
UC Los Angeles
Box 951417
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417

You can find out more about the this conference by going to the Digital
Cultures Project website devoted to this conference:
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/gradconf.html

Please note: all submissions for the conference should be sent not to me or
Robert Hamm but to Amy Pederson: pederson@humnet.ucla.edu

Yours,
William B. Warner
Director, The Digital Cultures Project

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