10th International Conference on the Arts in Society
London, United Kingdom | Imperial College London
This interdisciplinary conference and its companion journal collection invite scholars to examine the role of the arts in society through arts theory, history, new media, political, social, and educational studies. The event is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities.
The orgnizing committee is inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia through one of the following themes:
- ARTS EDUCATION
- ARTS THEORY AND HISTORY
- NEW MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS
- SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY AGENDAS IN THE ARTS
A special focus for the 2015 edition will be dedicated to 'The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society', and to the role if digital technologies in engendering new platforms to produce, distribute and display art. The work of art, as a category of labor, in the age of networked society is often argued though a grammar of participation, collaboration and peers. Online galleries and publishers are also seen to allow for greater access to the products of the work of art. Moreover there is a perceived newfound autonomy of the artist as distributor of content and message. In addition to its usual broad range of themes on the relation of the arts to society, the 2015 conference will explore the ways in which digital technologies have altered the way that the work of art, as a category of labor, and art objects themselves, are perceived, conceptualized and theorized.