Art Education in Cultural Transition
Chicago, 21-24 April 2008
The web forum is open! Register today!*
In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA announces a joint international symposium that adresses the role of the arts and its "claim to creativity", in relation to other forms of creativity and society at large.
Claiming Creativity seeks to re-position creativity as a driver not only for our economies, but also for art making, for transformational processes, and for social and cultural development and change. The working assumption is that the vitality of our common future is linked tightly to creative practice in many forms. This symposium will place artists, designers, architects and other active "creators," and those who teach in the creative disciplines squarely at the center of these important conversations along with leaders in industry and commerce who share an interest in the life of the imagination and its value to society.
Educators and other leaders in the arts, business, science, commerce, industry, public policy, and environment are invited to attend.
* A special feature of Claiming Creativity is the symposium online forum, which is available now to all symposium registrants. Successful proposal abstracts are included on the forum. Additionally, a symposium “journal” will be published through Columbia College Chicago’s academic press.
www.claimingcreativity.com
Nantes, France, October 2010
Call for nominationsDeadline: 1 June 2010
ELIA is pleased to announce the second edition of the NEU/NOW festival that will present the most exciting and creative NEU artistic talent NOW emerging across Europe and beyond.
What is the NEU/NOW Festival?
The NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative platform for talented graduating or recent graduate artists – coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wider international audience within professional contexts. The Festival features the most excellent new artists now entering the professional arts arenas and will be a showcase of emerging creative talent.
The NEU/NOW Festival is:
- an online festival and a live event that promotes artistic excellence through cutting edge presentations and activities in a range of art disciplines;
- an opportunity for selected emerging artists to show their work, meet each other and create new international partnerships;
- a place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects coming from art schools and universities across Europe and beyond;
- a forum where artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
- a means of presenting new international generation of professional artists to the attention of a wide audience.
The NEU/NOW Live Festival 2010 will be hosted by the vibrant city of Nantes in France in the frame of the ELIA Biennial Conference, that will attract around 500 delegates from all over the world.
The NEU/NOW Festival will be online at www.neunow.eu , widely accessible to arts professionals and public alike.
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Deadline: 15 April 2010
ELIA will organise its 12th Biennial Conference in 2012 and is calling upon its members to nominate a venue.
The ELIA Biennial Conference is usually organised in October and attracts roughly 500 delegates, representing more than 40 countries, giving the host institute(s) a unique opportunity to present themselves to Higher Art Education Institutions and Universities from all over the world.
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Nantes, France, 27 – 30 October 2010
Call for papers expired 18 January 2010 | reduced fee registration until 25 June
Following the success of the ELIA Biennial Conference in Gothenburg in 2008 (hosted by the University of Gothenburg), we are pleased to announce that the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux – Art de Nantes Metropole has invited ELIA to hold its 11th Biennial Conference in the elegant and dynamic city of Nantes, France. The conference will take place at the Lieu Unique (LU), located in the middle of Nantes and surrounded by the city’s art schools and cultural institutions.
Under the title (h)eART(h) - l’art au coeur du territoire, five perspectives on the role of the Arts and Higher Art Education will be addressed in symposia and discipline sessions:
- Arts at the heart of the "way of living", questioning behaviours.
- Arts encourage the emergence of contributors in place of consumers.
- Arts name and identify territories.
- Arts meet science and question environments.
- Arts reinvent and "moralize" customs.
Zurich, Switzerland, 29-30 April 2010
Meeting organized by Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) under the auspices of ELIA
As artistic research is still a rather young discipline, most of the debates surrounding it have so far been concerned with questions of definition: the new field has to be mapped in both epistemological and aesthetic terms, and established politically and institutionally. Consequently, the issue of quality has often remained in the background – although it arises regularly as soon as PhD research or applications for research funding have to be evaluated. Therefore, a canonical body of artistic research projects has yet to emerge. References to such projects are rare and in many instances, accessibility to their documentation proves to be difficult. The connection between the debate on quality and concrete examples of artistic research projects is still rather tenuous.
The programme includes workshops on case studies and theoreticla reflections. Through a discussion of examples from all disciplines, the conference hopes to achieve a better understanding and more general criteria of what constitutes excellence in artistic research.
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The proceedings of last year's ZHdK artistic research conference have recently been published as Zurich Yearbook of the Arts , vol. 6: Art and Artistic Research | Kunst und Künstlerische Forschung.
Queries: Fiona Siegenthaler, fiona.siegenthaler [at] zhdk.ch
Conference leader: Prof. dr. Corina Caduff, ZHdK
Zurich, 2-4 December 2009
Papers from the ELIA Leadership Symposium are now on download at the LS site.
You can also find pictures of the event here >>
www.elialeadershipsymposium.org
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1-4 July
Keynotes and presentations from the ELIA Teachers' Academy are now on download at the TA site.
You can also find pictures of the event here >>
www.eliateachersacademy.org
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8-12 March 2010
This spring Studium Generale, the transdisciplinary theory program of the Rietveld Academie, presents a five day conference with ten different topics under the overarching title Becoming Minority.
Ten curators and artist-curators from in and outside the academy were invited to use the concept of “ becoming minority “ (coined as “ becoming minor “ by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari) as an umbrella for a wide range of critical or affirmative positions around the liberating potential of the act of ‘unbecoming’ part of the majority, the prevailing social system. A wealth of guestspeakers and performers will come to the Rietveld to take part in one of the ten day- and evening programmes that were tailored around the specific topics. Visitors from outside the academy are most welcome to attend the conference together with Rietveld students and faculty . Reservation is requested for the sessions during the day (please check our website for details). The evening lectures are open to all. Entrance is free.
studiumgenerale.rietveldacademie.nl
Melbourne, Australia, 7-9 April 2010
DRAWING OUT is a trans-disciplinary conference. It explores drawing across the boundaries of disciplines. It addresses drawing as a way of thinking and communicating in the twenty-first century. Who ever we are, drawing is part of our everyday and professional lives.
The conference investigates the role of drawing in its widest possibilities, such as physical and virtual drawing; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices; digital schemas; fashion templates; architectural and engineering designs; creative writing; media and communications concepts; cartography and scientific schematics; architectural and mathematical modelling; business and financial mapping; legal, educational and political visualisations.
DRAWING OUT engages professional organisations who use drawing in their fundamental practices, including the fields of: Animation and Interactive Media; Architecture; Art; Built Environment; Cartography; Commerce; Communications; Design; Engineering; Fashion; Film; Information Technology; Legal systems; Photography; Sciences; Social Sciences and Textiles.
Key issues addressed in the program will include, but are not limited to:
- Drawing in: Drawing is a way of thinking
- Drawing out: Drawing is a way of mapping
- Drawing across: Drawing is a way of communicating
www.drawingout.com.au
Challenging the Curriculum: Exploring discipline boundaries in art, design and media
Berlin, Germany, 12-13 April 2010
The 2010 cltad international conference will focus on curriculum design in art and design Higher Education meeting the challenges of changing times and demands. As old discipline structures are eroded, new liaisons are emerging. On one hand, art and design reach out and connect with other disciplines, influencing all aspects of society and how we live. On the other hand, creativity, which we have perhaps regarded as the prerogative of art and design, is increasingly being recognised as significant and central in every discipline. Building on the 2008 conference we want to explore where boundaries to disciplinary uniqueness are becoming blurred and where collaborations between the disciplines are being built, sometimes by intent and occasionally by chance.
Contributions can come as abstracts for
- research papers (45 minutes, including 15 mins discussion; full paper length 5000 words)
- polemical conceptual papers (30 minutes, including 30 mins discussion; full paper length 3000 words)
- work in progress/showcase sessions (45 minutes)
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The Education of Instrumental and Vocal Teachers – Developing Professional Competences
Dublin, Ireland, 16-17 April 2010
International Network for Vocal and Instrumental Teacher Education (INVITE)
Hosted by the Dublin Institute of Technology
As a reaction to the changing demands of working life and society, instrumental/vocal teacher education seems to be growing in importance as one of the main areas of responsibility of conservatoires and music academies. Simultaneously, however, existing educational frameworks – as well as content and goals – are in a process of change, underlining the importance of international collaboration between institutions and dialogue within the professional field.
The conference is intended to create an arena for the exchange of ideas and practices, collaboration and a multilateral debate on the current situation and the challenges for the future of instrumental/vocal teacher education. The conference is part of the work of the ‘Polifonia’ INVITE Working Group of the ERASMUS Network for Music ‘Polifonia’, coordinated by the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
www.polifonia-tn.org
24-31 May 2010, Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal
In the framework of the TKB research project, the Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon (CLUNL) and Espaço do Tempo are organizing the 1st TKB hands-on Lab, combining an arts&science residency (24-28 May 2010) and an international conference (29-30 May 2010).
The main focus will be "New models of documentation for contemporay dance", mainly focusing on the emerging "Transmedia Knowledge Base" project - while based on Rui Horta's material - and the follow-ups of the "Inside Movement Knowledge" project from ICK Amsterdam - Emio Greco/PC, Amsterdam, accomodating other research projects in this or similar domains, small or big-scale, based in Portugal or anywhere else in the world.
Residency period: 24-28 May. The weekend conference (29-30 May) will be open to the broader public and dedicated both to publicly present the results of the internal residency and to accomodate art&science seminars on the issues of Documentation for contemporary dance, video annotation tools, new digital archives based on cognitive linguistics methodologies and motion tracking, amongst others to be announced in the conference programme in due time. For proposals and inquiries, please contact Carla Fernandes: carla.fernandes [at] fcsh.unl.pt
www.oespacodotempo.pt
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Genk, Belgium, 26-30 May 2010
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010
Full paper deadline: 10 May 2010
The Cumulus Genk Conference will be hosted by the Media and Design Academy of Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg Belgium, from 26th May to 30th May 2010.
In this conference we wish to explore and to experience the various facets of borderlines and how limits and limitations are overcome. This is a multidimensional, social and societal relevant theme that will illustrate how geographical, cultural, social, philosophical and virtual boundaries are crossed.
Teachers, managers, artists, researchers are invited to take part and submit work relating to the general theme and the two sub-themes, critical design and boundless curiosity. They can participate as speakers in parallel sessions, or organise a poster session.
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www.borderlinedesign.eu
International art symposium 2010
Eskisehir, Turkey, 14-20 June 2010
deadline for pre-application: 26 March
The symposium will be held on 14–20 June 2010 in the studios and garden of the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts at Anadolu University.
The purpose of the symposium is to bring together young academic artists from various Fine Arts Faculties in Turkey, and from various universities of other countries with whom the university has international mobility agreements, and thus to create new friendships among young academics and cultures.
The artists who join the symposium can work in the areas assigned by the Department of Painting at Anadolu University. For this purpose, the painting studios of the Department and the symposium area in the garden of the Faculty will be used.
anadolusanatbulusmasi [at] gmail.com
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Tbilisi, Georgia, 17-20 June 2010
Deadline for entries: 19 April 2010
Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University of Theatre and Film presents the International Student Film Festival Amirani.
The history of the Amirani Student Short Film Festival started in September 1978 and the Festival was held every two years until 1986. During the almost ten year of its existence it became one of the important film events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Remarkable filmmakers such as Otar Ioseliani, Merab Kokochashvili, Rezo Esadze, Leonid Gaidai, Nikoloz Maschenko, Sergei Izraeliani took part as jury members.
The Festival invites students and upcoming filmmakers to take part in the Festival, which will give access to meet colleagues from different countries, to present work, and to take part in master classes, workshops, debates and discussions. The best work of students and schools will be awarded. The Festival aims to be a meeting point for Film schools and professors, exchanging teaching skills and debating problems.
Download call and entry form
Contact Levan Khetaguri: lkhetaguri [at] dsl.ge
www.tafu.edu.ge
London, UK, 18 June 2010
The University of Hertfordshire’s School of Creative Arts is running a conference examining the concept of luxury. The conference, entitled "In Pursuit of Luxury: commercial and academic perspectives on luxury", intends to expand the parameters of the debate around the concepts of luxury to provide a refreshing context to construe the familiar debates surrounding the subject.
By discussing the history of luxury against contemporary issues, the event seeks to focus on a range of issues. These include: what do we understand by the term luxury and can it or should it be applied to luxury branded goods today? Does contemporary branding allow such goods to remain ‘luxurious’ even though they have been mass-produced? What do the terms such as ‘value’, ‘consumerism’, ‘fashion’, ‘taste’ or connoisseurship’ really tell us about modern spending habits?
The conference will be held on Friday 18 June 2010 at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in Central London; registration will be open from Tuesday 1 December 2009.
www.inpursuitofluxury.com
Traces: Sustainabe Art Education
Rovaniemi, Finland, 21-24 June 2010
Traditionally, sustainable development has been connected with the environment and economy, but it also entails a strong social and cultural dimension. Art and education are changing at the national, regional, and global levels, which poses a challenge for art educators to check and update their views and practices and to develop art education that supports social wellbeing, equality, prevention of alienation, cultural interaction, and diversity.
The congress sets a challenge to examine how the education of art, in pursuance of sustainable development, creates teaching and learning situations in which the sociocultural reality of local communities encounters wider cultural consciousness and deeper social observation. Thus, the congress breaks down the superimposition of the local, the glocal, and the global. It also explains how artistic activity becomes part of concrete and responsible interaction, reflexion, dialogue, critical thinking, and change orientation.
www.insea.org
www.ulapland.fi/insea
Riga, Latvia | Belgrade, Serbia | Evora, Portugal
25-27 February | 9-11 July | 27-29 July 2010
Throughout the past decade, scenographic practice and performance design have continuously moved beyond the black box of the theatre toward a hybrid terrain located at the intersections of theatre, architecture, exhibition, visual arts, and media. Spaces that are at the same time hybrid, mediated, narrative, and transformative result from a trans-disciplinary understanding of space and a distinct awareness of social agency. These two factors of expansion may be regarded as the central driving forces in contemporary scenographic practice and thought.
In preparation for the Intersection Project in June 2011, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space issues an invitation and a Call for Papers for 3 international scenography symposia held in Riga, Belgrade and Évora during 2010. The symposia will engage with notions of spectatorship, artists/authors, and curating in relation to the diverse artistic positions in contemporary spatial design. Expanding Scenography 1-3 will be followed up by a publication.
Expanding Scenography 1: On Spectatorship
25 – 27 February, 2010
New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 15 December 2009
Expanding Scenography 2: On Artists/Authors
9 – 11 July, 2010
BELEF Center and Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 15 March 2010
Expanding Scenography 3: On Curating
27 – 29 September, 2010
Festival Escrita na Paisagem and Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística (CHAIA), Évora, Portugal
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 15 June 2010
www.intersection.cz
Shanghai, China, 7-10 September 2010
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010
Full paper deadline: 10 May 2010
The Cumulus Shanghai Conference 2010 will be hosted by College of Design & Innovation of Tongji University from 7-10 September during World EXPO 2010.
The conference aims to explore how the young generation of designers can improve our environment and life in creative ways. The emerging missions and visions of future design education, research and practice, together with its economic, political and social impacts of the era, will also be discussed during the conference.
Design educators, practitioners, and researchers are invited to join our cross-disciplinary conversation. Submitted work should relate to one or more of the sub-themes below:
- Sustainability & social innovation
- Local wisdom & globalization
- Socio-economics & design
- Old & young
www.cumulus2010tongji.org
unexpected variations
Ghent, Belgium, 15-17 september 2010
Following a successful edition last year, the Orpheus Research Centre in Music is proud to announce its second Research Festival. Rich in "unexpected variations" and displaying fireworks of music and ideas, this event is simply a must-do for any musician-researcher.
The ORCiM Research Festival in Music takes places from Wednesday evening September 15, 2010 through Friday September 17, 2010.
One can register until September 6, 2010 through the following registration form.
The number of participants is limited, so please mark these dates in your agenda and register in time.
www.orpheusinstituut.be
Saint-Étienne, France, 17 November - 5 December 2010
The theme of the 6th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial will be around Teleportation. It will deal with an extreme view of our society, a kind of ideal (or not) that we could yearn for and that could solve many issues related to ecological emergencies, mobility, and time pressure. Working from home, transferring data and documents to work - that’s all very fine, until the system breaks down, and you suddenly find yourself wishing you could just snap and be there.
Teleportation appears a reasonable dream to have. On the other hand, when such a dream comes true, time will accelerate. Movement will become dematerialized. We may lose our marks, if not our identity.
Different themes may be developed around the subject of teleportation. Ubiquity. Mobility. The world getting smaller as we travel faster and faster. Visiting new potential life spaces (under the sea, off the ground, on new planets). Virtuality, making reality double. Time T. Changes in space and time, or on the contrary, the concept of durability, anchorage to the ground and by extension, comfort.
Physical teleportation may not be real yet but communication tools do enable us to teleport in a way and to mentally travel to any places around the world. We can ‘be’ anywhere anytime, living in a boundless parallel world that we built. These are paths the 2010 Biennial intends to explore.
www.citedudesign.com
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