Annual Conf of Assoc. of Art Historians Session: Art and Cybernetics/ Art and Technology (April 2013, Berkshire UK)

Dates: 11-13 April 2013
Location: University of Reading, Berkshire UK
Website:
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2013-conference

Deadline for proposals: 12 November 2012

The session for the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians (April 11-13, 2013) redresses a lack of attention to cybernetics globally. It invites presenters in the visual arts and from non-art disciplines to reconsider or generate new knowledge about generations and geographies of art and cybernetics and art and technology, including practices that create, distribute, and theorize art forms, concepts, and histories. Papers may explore cybernetic phenomena in artistic environments; examine artistic play on logic and reason; consider how art or non-art agents treat cybernetics as a social and cultural paradigm, or question how cybernetics is presented in historiographies of recent art and what interfaces of cybernetics and art bode for intra- and inter-disciplinary research and practice.

Balkan Locus-Focus: Long 20th Century Communication Design Histories – 2nd Call & NEW DEADLINE:

2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION & NEW DEADLINE

http://fadf.ieu.edu.tr/balkanlocusfocus/

This two-day symposium held at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
(Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Visual Communication Design
Department) in collaboration with Parsons, USA (School of Art and
Design History and Theory), intends to offer first insights on the yet
silent and poorly recorded histories of communication design in the
Balkan peninsula, focusing on the period from the late 19th century to
the present.

This second call is to remind that along with the general SYMPOSIUM
THEMES, our WORKSHOP THEMES have been announced in our web site as follows:

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Theme 1: Local Identity, Global Crisis
Moderator: Fedja Vukić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Theme 2: Visuality and Identity
Moderator: Bratislav Pantelic (Sabancı University, Turkey)

Theme 3: Visualizing Histories / Overcoming Boundaries: New Methods in
Design History Research
Moderator: Jilly Traganou, co-moderator (Parsons, USA)

Theme 4: Perceptive Occupation and Control: Designing the Perception
of the Audience
Moderator: Başak Şenova (Turkey)
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Please note that our deadlines have also been updated:

EXTENDED DEADLINE for all abstracts: 5 April 2012
New date for Announcement of accepted participants: 25 April 2012

For more information, please visit our web site:

http://fadf.ieu.edu.tr/balkanlocusfocus/

Please contact us on:
balkanlocusfocus@ieu.edu.tr

BALKAN LOCUS-FOCUS: 1st symposium on Balkan communication design histories | 29-30 June 2012 | Izmir Turkey

BALKAN LOCUS-FOCUS

29-30 June 2012 | Izmir, Turkey

http://fadf.ieu.edu.tr/balkanlocusfocus

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

This call for participation asks for studies of communication design in the broader region of the Balkans/Southeastern Europe.

Consisting of heterogeneous cultural groups and diverse socio-economic structures, the region has had a turbulent history in the last century, marked by violent manifestations of ethnic conflict but also by regimes that fostered political integration. Its multiple design histories sometimes intersected, but often diverged to distinct national trajectories that looked for points of reference beyond the region’s geographical borders.

CFP: Design/History/Revolution conference

Submission deadline: December 7, 2011

Conference dates: April 27 & 28, 2012

Location: 66 Fifth Avenue, The New School, NYC

Keynote speaker: Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Whether by providing agitprop for revolutionary movements, an aesthetics of empire, or a language for numerous avant-gardes, design has changed the world. But how? Why? And under what conditions?  We propose a consideration of design as an historical agent, a contested category, and a mode of historical analysis.

Casting a wide net, we define our terms broadly. We seek 20-minute papers that examine the roles of design in generating, shaping, remembering or challenging moments of social, political, economic, aesthetic, intellectual, technological, religious, and other upheaval. We consider a range of historical periods (ancient, pre-modern, early modern, modern, post- and post-post-modern) and geographical locations (“West,” “East,” “North,” South,” and contact zones between these constructed categories).  We examine not only designed objects (e.g., industrial design, decorative arts, graphic design, fashion) but also spaces (e.g., architecture, interiors, landscapes, urban settings) and systems (e.g., communications, services, governments).  And we welcome a diversity of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches.

This conference brings together scholars from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences with designers, artists, and other creators. We hope not only to present multiple methodological approaches but also to foster conversations across traditional spatial, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.

We list some possible subject areas below, and encourage you to propose others:

Design and political / cultural / economic revolution….. Design and technological revolution…. Design and the print revolution….Design and government…. Design and social movements…. Design and surveillance…. Design and empire….Design and historicity…. Design and the sacred……Design and the avant-garde…..Design and memory…. Design and philosophy/philosophies of design…. Design and literature / literature of design….Design and the everyday…. Design and consumerism… Design and education….Designed landscapes…. Design and the environment…Design and the city….Design and science … Design and cybernetics ….

Please submit a 250-word abstract (maximum) and 1-page CV to: designhistoryrevolution@gmail.com

Conference co-organized by  The New School’s  Committee on Historical Studies, Global Studies Program, Humanities Department, and School of Art and Design History and Theory.

ICDHS 2012: Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies (Sep 2012, São Paulo Brazil)

Dates: 3-6 September 2012
Location: University of São Paulo • Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil
Website:  www.fau.usp.br/icdhs2012
Deadline for proposals: 29 Feb 2012

8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies

History marks territories that in some way or another are reflected in design. Since the first ICDHS conference, held in Barcelona in 1999, significant steps were taken to draw attention to the nature of design studies, practice and history in a wider world context. Parallel to that, the configuration of design landscapes has been significantly altered by education, technology and national state policies intended to promote local industries and sites by means of design.

The 8th ICDHS conference, “Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies”, aims to discuss how design history and design studies may push the limits of design knowledge. The frontiers of design may be challenged by the exploration of new territories, by the establishment of new concepts, by the emergence of new technologies, as well as by rediscovering the past and by finding new ways of applying current wisdom.

 

J of Interior Design: Special Issue on Interior Design History (Feb 2012)

Deadline for submission: 15 Feb 2012
Full CFP: 
http://www.idec.org/news/documents/CallforJIDHistoryPapers.pdf

In recognition of the importance of continuing contributions to Interior Design’s History as well as IDEC’s (Interior Design Educators Council), the Journal of Interior Design anticipates a special issue to be published in 2013. This issue intends to bring together new and important research on the history of interior design, its practitioners, and development as a profession. JID invites scholarly research papers for consideration in the special issue.

Contributors are asked to submit full papers and abstracts on themes relating to Interior Design’s past. Papers can focus on, but are not limited to, contributions of past and present individuals and firms; significant interiors and furnishings; and various interior design processes such as education, professional development, professional organizations, or preservation. Authors may present empirical research, theory, or issues-oriented papers that advance the body of knowledge in interior design’s history.

29th Symp of the Intl Cmte for the History of Technology (Jul 2012, Barcelona)

Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: 10 – 14 July 2012
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2012
Website:
http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting/cfp-system/2012-barcelona/

Theme: Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture

The 39th ICOHTEC Symposium will be held in Catalonia in mid-July next year. The main theme of the meeting will be Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture. The aim is to examine technology in a multidisciplinary framework. The key questions are how technological development has interacted with design, architecture, the arts as well as popular culture and whether we can regard industrial culture as a melting pot of various influences. Reflecting on the theme of the previous conference we hope also to explore the role of consumers in this dialogue.

Icon & Anonymity: What is Californian Architectural History? (May 2012, Santa Barbara CA)

Location: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: May 19, 2012
Deadline for submissions: 30 Oct 2011
Contact: V.M. Welter (welter@arthistory.ucsb.edu) and S.J. Sadler (sjsadler@ucdavis.edu)

Call for Participants

During Winter and Spring quarter 2012, the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum (ADAM) at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) will exhibit “Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House”.  This first ever exhibition dedicated to the œuvre of Californian architect Cliff May draws from the archive housed at UCSB and offers a perfect opportunity to think more generally about the teaching of Californian architectural history.  Through open, collegial round-table discussions, the conference “Icon and Anonymity” will ask: Is there a specifically Californian history of architecture, and what do we teach when we offer instruction in it?

9th Biennial Automotive History Conference (Apr 2012, Philadelphia USA)

Dates: 12-14 April 2012
Location: Philadelphia, USA
Website:
http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/cfp-automotive-history-conference-april-2012/

Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2011

The Society of Automotive Historians is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at its Ninth Biennial Automotive History Conference to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, from April 12 through 14, 2012. The conference theme is “A World of Cars: Manufacturers, Drivers and the Impact of Globalization” and will focus on the international growth of the industry initially by North American, later by European and more recently by Asian manufacturers leading to the dominance of integrated multinational corporations. Papers may address the impact of the automobile on worldwide economic and social development, the roles of producer and non-producer nations, and the influence of international requirements on business policies and vehicle design. Papers may explore the transformation of popular consciousness of the automobile from an iconic to a utilitarian artifact as a consequence of its worldwide ubiquity. Proposals for papers on automotive subjects unrelated to the conference theme will also be considered. The conference will conclude with a final dinner and address by Dr. Mira Wilkins, the distinguished economic and business historian.

The Life of New Materials (Nov 2011, Philadelphia)

Dates: 17-18 Nov 2011
Location: Philadelphia USA
Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2011
Website:
http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials

Paper proposals are invited for a conference on Nov. 17 and 18, 2011 that will explore the lives of the new materials that have made
possible many of the technological advances of our age. Whether based on plant, metal, chemical, or nano technologies, the development, use, re-use, and disposal of new materials is an embedded feature of our industrial society. The focus of this conference is to understand the relationships from which new materials emerge, and which they in turn often refashion. We are especially interested in proposals that focus on the life history of a new material: its biography, use cycle, place in supply chains, or features as material culture. We encourage papers to address the reasons and methods for development of a new material; its design, manufacture, testing, and subsequent incorporation into final products or already existing technologies; its reuse or disposal after completion of its primary purpose; and its impact – anticipated or not – on subsequent innovations. Exploration of the creation of new materials should situate those scientific and technological processes within the commercial, institutional, or social contexts that lead to their development. Papers should be historical and based on original research, and may consider any region of the world after 1900.