Appel à communication : « Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde »

In what ways has the formation, development and critique of today’s digital environments been shaped by the concepts and practices of the avant-garde ? This international conference held at The American University of Paris considers the question by exploring the potential avant-garde and modernist genealogies of contemporary digital culture.

Topics may include:

— historical relationships between the avant-garde, mass media and networked digital media
— Internet art and hacker culture
— analog and digital networking
— authenticity, appropriation and intertextuality
— medium specificity and intermedia
— systems structures
— collectives, subcultures and transnational movements
— conformity and subversion
— framings of modernism and postmodernism through digital media theory
— political action and agency
— artist and machine
— audience, participant and reception theories
— narratives of technology and progress
— spatial and temporal relationships
— kinesis and stasis
— ephemerality and permanence

Proposals that reference the Paris avant-garde are particularly desirable. In addition to researchers and scholars, artists, designers, and hackers are encouraged to participate.

Proposals for presentations should include a 300-word abstract and short biographical note. All submissions must be sent to smonteiro@aup.edu by 30 November 2011. All applicants will be notified by 15 December.

Stephen Monteiro
The American University of Paris
Email: smonteiro@aup.edu