[spectre] CfP: AMRO - Art Meets Radical Openness 2016, Linz

Wed Feb 17 10:02:11 CET 2016

Dear all,

I'm passing this info for your interest on behalf of very wonderful AMRO
gathering.

Best,
Lara

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AMRO - Art Meets Radical Openness 2016, Linz
Festival Dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture

Waste(d)!
25.05-28.05.2016, Linz/Austria

| Open Call:
| https://www.radical-openness.org/open-call
| Submission deadline: Sunday, 2nd of April 2016

AMRO is a biennial community festival in Linz that probes and engages
with new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life,
education, politics, and taking action.

This year’s festival “Waste(d)!” is devoted to aspects of the conditions
of our digital infosphere that are increasingly perceived as complex.
The act of saving, deleting, or resurfacing data and information has
taken on a life of its own, is monitored, monetized and waste valuable
natural resources.

What is the cultural, social, philosophical, ecological, and economic
significance of producing, saving, deleting, and resurfacing data?

The Open Call is addressed to artists, hacktivists, cultural producers,
journalists, F/LOSS developers, idealists, and others who want to
contribute (exhibition, workshop, lecture, performance) to this years topic.

# Exhibition
This years Festival opens with an exhibition on 25th of May 2016. It
assembles artistic positions on the cultural practice of saving,
deleting, and resurfacing data.
Along with classical exhibition participation, workshops and
performances can also be proposed, which deal with the theme or
introduce complementary aspects.

# Workshops & Clinic Sessions
Which experiments, alternative tools, and infrastructures give us an
idea of meaningful alternatives and do they exist? Where do our digital
traces lead us? How do we liberate ourselves from new compulsions?

# Lectures
Producing, saving, deleting, and resurfacing data have become such an
integral part of our everyday lives that we are often not really even
aware of what we are doing, let alone of the consequences. And have we
really lost all possibility of control over the digital traces we leave
behind? Yet the traces we leave are not only digital: What are the
material impacts of the technologies we take for granted? What options
are left to us?

# Performances, Nightline
What does our quantified self, acoustic data garbage processing, or a
“wasted” planet sound like? Is electronic garbage a valuable cultural
good? Less serious contributions based on free/open source software or
self-made open hardware are equally welcome.

AMRO (Art Meets Radical Openness) is characterized by the spirit of the
free software movement. This understanding is an essential basis for the
selection of contributions using software and hardware.

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On 17/02/16 08:24, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
> From: Faculty of Philosophy, University in Beograd; Faculty of Arts,
> University of Ljubljana; Center for Iconographic Studies, University of
> Rijeka; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split
> <conference.phd2016 at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 16, 2016
> Subject: CFP: Migrations in Visual Culture (Belgrade, 8-10 Sep 16)
> 
> Belgrade, Serbia, September 8 - 10, 2016
> Deadline: Apr 25, 2016
> 
> Migrations in Visual Culture
> 
> Conference for PhD Students and recent PhD Graduates
> 
> The theme of the conference addresses the power and meaning of images
> and the visual in general in the context of migration of people, ideas,
> knowledge, artefacts, art works and symbols through the prism of
> postcolonial and cultural translation theories, from antiquity to the
> present. The question involves far more than just art, all the more so
> because many fields in the humanities and social sciences have in recent
> times taken the "pictorial turn". Moreover, and especially at this
> moment in history, any discussion of the power of images and their role
> in migrations in visual culture is unavoidably also positioned in the
> context of current changes in global relations as well as in the growing
> impact of social media. This issue also opens the question of
> de-territorialisation of images and how, as Walter Benjamin has already
> indicated, technical reproduction has moved the artwork from its
> original context. The circulation of images is, of course, as old as
> civilization itself and crucial in the process of generating multiple
> facets of their agency in society, their impacting both the individual
> and the collective habitus and their role in cross-cultural
> communication. Any aspect of the visual is never simply an expression of
> one culture but rather part of a process of constructing meaning in a
> field characterized by similarities as much as by differences. This
> conference seeks to put these and other issues related to migrations in
> visual culture at the center of the discussion and to present them from
> an interdisciplinary point of view.
> 
> The international conference is intended for PhD students and recent PhD
> graduates from different fields of humanities and social sciences, who
> are hereby invited to participate.
> 
> The proposed topics for interdisciplinary discussions are:
>  1. West Balkans - Migration and Cultural Transfer
> 2. Migration as Cross-cultural Communication
> 3. Migration of Ideas and Concepts
> 4. Migration of Works of Art
> 5. Migration of Symbols
> 
> Proposals should include name, contact information (address, phone
> number, e-mail), title of the paper, short CV in English of maximum 200
> words and an abstract in English of maximum 400 words.
> 
> conference.phd2016 at gmail.com
> 
> Faculty of Philosophy
> Art History Department
> University in Beograd
> Čika Ljubina 18-20
> 11000 Beograd
> SERBIA
> (with the note »Conference for PhD Students and recent PhD Graduates«)
> 
> Reference / Quellennachweis:
> CFP: Migrations in Visual Culture (Belgrade, 8-10 Sep 16). In:
> H-ArtHist, Feb 16, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/12236>.
> 
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