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BEYOND THE OBJECT

Call for Papers Deadline: 21 Feb 2005

The Art History Graduate Students Association at York University will host
the department's third annual multidisciplinary symposium on April 7 2005.

We invite submissions from graduate students working in areas that relate
to the value and meaning of objects in contemporary cultural discourse. We
encourage submissions that:

- Challenge the traditional opposition of art to mass-production
- Reconsider the modernist rhetoric of presence in light of the rapidly
expanding field of digital culture.
- Question the relationship between mass culture and the singular object.
- Explore the shift from object analysis to an interest in social and
political context.
- Discuss the role of traditional art objects in the context of the
institutions, individuals and groups that produce, present and interpret
them.
- Examine the effects of rapidly proliferating new technologies on our
understanding of the object.
- Consider recent trends in the commodification of objects in light of the
growing interest in collecting historical conceptual art.

Please forward abstracts of no more than 500 words to the following e-mail
address by February 21.

Email: yorkarthistoryyahoo.ca