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I am chairing a studio
session at SECAC 2008 conference in New Orleans taking place September
24 - 27, 2008.
The Southeastern
College Art Conference is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote
the visual arts in higher education. SECAC facilitates cooperation and
fosters on-going dialog about pertinent creative, scholarly and educational
issues among teachers and administrators in universities, colleges, community
colleges, professional art schools, and museums. Although the organization
represents the 12 state areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, and West Virginia, SECAC has members from across the United
States and abroad.
For more information,
please visit these SECAC web pages or contact me directly.
SECAC
Annual
conference (download proposal form here)
List
of all sessions (.pdf)
Contact
me
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Fiction,
in Fact:
Directions
in Contemporary Art Photography
This session is meant to explore the practices, contexts, theories and
precedents of contemporary photographic practices. In particular, the
session will focus on the potential and limitations of photographic
communication within an art context. What happens to a photograph’s
connection to reality in a gallery setting? What is fact; and what is
fiction? These questions and more will be explored through the presenting
artists’ works, sources, and influences.
This session seeks artists working with photographic processes who are
able to situate their work in the trajectory of historical and contemporary
movements. Artists attempting to transform traditional genres into new
forms are especially encouraged. Selection will be based on the innovation
and quality of the work, as well as a demonstrated understanding of
the relevant theory and history. Artists will be selected in order to
maximize a variety of approaches.
Artists working with any light or lens based media may propose presentations.
Themes and approaches including, but not limited to: post-directorial
photography; photo-based digital imaging; appropriation / quotation;
tableau; documentary; conceptual; abstraction; alternative processes;
photographic collage; video art; artist books; landscape; still-life;
portraiture; site-specific photo projects; and interdisciplinary media
are welcome.
Artists are asked to submit 5 – 10 images of their work in addition
to their submission and cv.
Deadline
for proposals is April 20, 2008
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