CALL FOR PAPERS:

CAA 2007 Annual Meeting, New York City, 14-17 February 2007

[CFPs for two Panels:]

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The Presence of History, The Persistence of Time

Understandings of the structure of time, of history, and of the associations
attributed to change underwent radical transformation during the Early
Modern period, affected by shifts in, in the mechanics of measuring time,
and how historical documents were collected and interpreted. This session
invites papers that address the issues of time, temporality, and history,
taking into account one or more of the different pressures - from humanism,
urbanization, mercantile capitalism, science, the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation - that were brought to bear on individual and social
conceptions of time, and how these changes and conflicts may have been
registered - or ignored through nostalgic archaisms - in Netherlandish and
German art from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries.

Send proposals to:

Ann Jensen Adams, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Elizabeth
Honig, University of California at Berkeley; mail to: Ann Jensen Adams,
Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100, Los Angeles,
CA 90049 and Elizabeth Honig, 1414 Oxford, Berkeley, CA 94709,
with email of text to ajadamsarthistory.ucsb.edu

Questions/queries to ajadamsarthistory.ucsb.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 5, 2006, but submissions will be accepted
until May 15.

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Virtualities: Contemporary Art between Fact and Fiction

Elaborated within the discourses of poststructuralism, film theory,
cybernetics, and new media, the term virtuality conveys a newly pervasive
phenomenon in the visual arts. Artists are increasingly constructing images
and scenarios in which cate gories of fact and fiction are treated as
coextensive. Most obvi ous in the genre of staged photography, this trend is
visible in areas as diverse as site-based installation, film and video, and
net art. What are the aesthetic terms, critical potential, and modes of
resistance this convergence engenders? How does it relate to broader shifts
within our global, information-based society? How might it indicate a new
order beyond enlightenment and modern paradigms of truth? What is its
relationship to past forms of spectacle, whose theorization similarly
diagnosed the eclipse of real-life experience by representation? We welcome
papers that address case studies and engage theoretical and historical
perspectives.

Send Proposals to:
T. J. Demos, University College London, and Margaret Sundell, Parsons
New School for Design; mail to: Margaret Sundell, Parsons New School
for Design, Dept. of Art and Design Studies, 70 Fifth Ave., 6th Fl., New
York, NY 10011; and email text to tjdemosucl.ac.uk.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 5, 2006

For complete details of submission process, see:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2007-call-papers.pdf