Tenth International Conference on The Arts in Society
- 2015 Special Focus: The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society
- 22–24 July 2015
- Imperial College London, London, UK
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society.
Countries represented.
Digital technologies are engendering new platforms to produce, distribute, and display art. The work of art, as a category of labor, in the age of networked society is often argued though a grammar of participation, collaboration, and peers. Online galleries and publishers are also seen to allow for greater access to the products of the work of art. Moreover there is a perceived newfound autonomy of the artist as distributor of content and message. In addition to its usual broad range of themes on the relation of the arts to society, the 2015 conference will explore the ways in which digital technologies have altered the way that the work of art, as a category of labor, and art objects themselves, are perceived, conceptualized, and theorized.
The Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Furtherfield, UK
"Invisible Forces: Critical Art and Contexts to Make Network Effects More Feeble and Maleable"
Curator; Writer; Researcher, Greece
"Nothing to Subvert? Artistic Practices in the Era of Datafication"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2015 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
UNICAM / Leiden Universy, Netherlands
University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
University of Bucharest, Romania
Florida State University, USA
Temple University, USA
Birmingham City University, UK
Slade School of Fine Art, UK
American University, USA
University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, UK
Danube University Krems, Austria
Howard University, USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Seton Hall University, USA