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CALL FOR PAPERSThe New Media Caucus panel at theCollege Art Association's 93rd annual conference
Panel title:"From database and place to bio-tech and bots: Relationality vs autonomy in media art"
Conference Dates: February 22-25, 2006 Boston, MassachusettsDEADLINE: Proposals must be e-mailed to<marisaso(at)gmail(dot)com> by Friday, September 16, 2005.
NOTE: Panelists are NOT REQUIRED to be members of CAA.
Panel Chair:Marisa S. Olson, Artist; Editor and Curator at Large,Rhizome.org; UC Berkeley, Rhetoric/Film Studies.
Panel Description:
Two predominant theories have emerged in the discourse surrounding newmedia: autonomy and relationality. On the outset, these notions seemto contradict each other. The theory of autonomy focuses attention onthe discrete elements involved: individual pieces of information,individual artists or viewers, and separate components/artworks.Relationality puts the emphasis on interconnectedness: data, artwork,artists, and viewers are inextricably intertwined, without a singlepredominant object or viewpoint and no fixed, absolute form.
While these theories may seem to be contradictory, contemporary mediaart relies on a notion of autonomy and, yet, suggests that noinformation is autonomous