IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints

Call for Papers and Proposals

Faculty of Art & Design,
Monash University
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

http://www.impact7.org.au

IMPACT 7 will reflect on the activities of an international community of artists, writers and designers. The conference will bring indigenous, migrant, and regional voices to the fore, with a focus on cultural diversity, creative collaboration, the artists’ book, and communication in digital networks.

Papers are invited on any aspect of the conference theme. Topics include but are not limited to:
• Printmedia and political agency, activism, appropriation and sub-culture
• Print and the influence of digital technologies and new media
• The history and theory of the print, printmedia and printmaking
• Trace, document, index
• Medium and materiality
• Craft, making, mastery and process
• Sustainability, reconstitution, and recycling
• Globalization, national identities and the post-colonial perspective
• Printmedia and Indigeneity
• The distribution of printmedia: economies and sites of practice
• Printmedia in the domestic and everyday
• The print as memorial, memory and trauma
• Printed media as a means to engage archives and the archival
• Printmedia and the artist’s book
• The print and narrative
• Print, film and animation
• The print, text, semiotics and language
• Paper architecture: the unbuilt in printmedia

Submission Guidelines and Deadlines

1. Conference Papers and Themed Panels

Please send a 500-word abstract, together with your name and a short biography (max. 100 words), position, institutional affiliation, and elected topic. Please save all your documents as a PDF. Papers selected for the conference will be double-blind refereed and published in due course.

Abstract Deadline: Friday 30 July 2010
Notification of Acceptance: September 2010
Paper Deadline: Friday 31 December 2010

2. Proposals for Exhibitions, Academic Poster Presentations, Workshops and Demonstrations, Open Portfolios, and Master Classes

Please send a clear and concise 1–2 page typed outline of your proposal’s concept, good quality images (max. 10), short biography (max. 100 words, do not send lengthy CVs or Artist Statements), space and technical requirements, and other pertinent information. Please save all your documents and images as a PDF.

Proposal Deadline: Friday 01 October 2010
Notification of Acceptance: January 2011