Chicago, February 2010

College Art Association 98th Annual Conference 2010
Chicago, Illinois, February 10­13

Call for Participation

Deadline: May 8, 2009

PANEL: The Photographic Act: Encounter, Event, Configuration Network
Chairs: Damian Sutton and Ken Neil

The onset of digital technologies has served to underline once
more the photographic act as a ³concrete encounter² (W. J. T.
Mitchell) and critical event. The photographic act can be seen as
a configuration (Badiou) of viewer, camera, and object in the
momentary, with the practice of the photographic artist situating
itself in Bourriaud¹s ³engineering² of social situations. In addition,
the photographic act as a type of Actor-Network (Callon, Latour,
Law) offers a privileged view of how contemporary art practice is
instrumentally reliant upon the creation of social interactions.

The session chairs invite abstracts from contemporary researchers
in art practice, art theory, art and philosophy, and art and society
to discuss the instrumentality of photography, film, and video in
art practice as critical and political intervention.

A post-conference book proposal is also being considered for this panel.

Contributions from practitioner artists are also welcome - please send
a presentation abstract as well as any artist¹s statement or work
description.

All submissions must follow the CAA guidelines and use the PDF form
on the CAA 2010 homepage (http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/),
documents can be mailed or emailed to the panel chairs at

d.suttongsa.ac.uk.

Deadline: May 8, 2009