DEADLINE: 13 February 2003

3rd Impact International
Printmaking Conference 2003

Michaelis School of Fine Art
University of Cape Town

Co-hosted with:

Rhodes University School of Fine Art

27-30 August 2003

The conference will take place from 27 - 30 August 2003 during the
spring vacation of the University on the Orange Street campus
located at the heart of the city of Cape Town. Included in the
programme of the conference are papers and panel discussions by
academics, artists and curators as well as printmaking exhibitions,
demonstrations, workshops and a product fair.

The previous two Impact International Printmaking Conferences
have focussed on the impact of technology on creative and
conceptual developments in print media. Whilst this issue has
importance to printmaking, the discourse around conceptual
developments and theory
that has taken place in contemporary practice has to a large extent
been overlooked. It is the aim of this conference to explore the
impact of recent conceptual and theoretical developments in
contemporary practice on printmaking and map their influence on
contemporary print culture.

The 3rd Impact International Printmaking conference is being held at
the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in
collaboration with the Rhodes University School of Fine Art. This is
first time the conference will be held in the southern-hemisphere and
it is inevitable that the point of view presented will be from the
periphery rather than from the centre. Some of the debate will centre
on issues relevant to developments in the region, although the
primary aim of the conference is to engage artists, teachers,
curators, dealers and collectors in the wider discourse of
contemporary expression in print media.

We are extremely fortunate to have internationally acclaimed artist
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE as the keynote speaker for the conference. There
will be an important exhibition of his prints as part of the
programme of events.

Working Proof: The impact of prints in a social, political and
cultural context

Interpretative framework for contributions:
* Frontiers. Notions of exploration, boundaries and limits. The
dissolution of boundaries between printed art and other media and the
redefinition of new parameters.

* Conflict. Ideas of opposition and hostility reflected in printed
art. The cultural hegemony of prints from the western world

* Repackaging. Looking back at notions of history, identity, race and
gender through a contemporary re-interpretation of the past in
prints. Towards developing a new print language in a post-colonial
context.

* Traces. Looking at the traces of historical events in contemporary
culture and print media, and about the ways that history is produced
through the recognition of such traces. Possible areas of
interpretation might include relics, ruins, monuments and memorials;
the found object; histories of recording and the discourses of
history, archaeology, and genealogy.

* Exile. Notions of marginalisation through political and cultural
isolation, but also arrival and departure that evokes thought of
exile. Possible areas of interpretation could include corruption;
prison islands, military experiment, social engineering, encampments
and states of siege; discourses of first contact; home and
homesickness; longing and belonging.

Proposal deadline extended till 13 February 2003
Contributions may take the form of papers, panel discussions and
exhibition proposals including web-based productions.

Exhibition Proposals:

Please submit an outline of the proposed exhibition, together with
supporting visual material, preferably in slide format. Please submit
one copy of your proposal by email.

Papers and panel discussions:

Abstracts should be written in lucid, jargon-free prose with limited
citations. Abstracts should be submitted as an attached file by email
in MS Word.
If possible, please use Times New Roman
Centre the title in capital letters at the top of the page (12pt
font)
Presenting author's name to be underlined. Please use 10 pt font
from here onwards
Thereafter type the body of the abstract, using single spacing.
Please leave 2cm margins on all sides. Leave one line to demarcate
paragraphs - no indents
Abstract should be no more than 1 x A4 page long
Notification of abstract acceptances will include any editorial
instructions necessary for final submission
On a separate page please state:
presenting author's name(s)
organisation
address
telephone and fax number
* email address

Please send all proposals to the following addresses:

Deborah McTeer,
Conference Management Centre
University of Cape Town
Faculty of Health Sciences
Observatory
7925
South Africa
email: deborah@curie.uct.ac.za

For information on previous Impact conferences, please look at:

http://www.impact2003.uct.ac.za/conference/conference.html