Two dominant approaches guide the ways we consider "works of art" as modes of visual narration.
On the one hand, we can consider works of art as kinds of static documents. In this approach, layered onto understandings of the work of art are historically forged cultural, artistic, intellectual, social, and economic contexts of the "objects" production; documenting and (re)presenting the story(s) of pre-given social realities. These representations are often imbued with intentionality to testify or record the footprint left by what "is" represented.
On the other hand, we can approach works of art as an engagement with a more open and communicative process. In this framing there is greater allowance for an ongoing and dynamic approach that opens the potentiality of narrative co-production with the viewer, art communities, and society. This approach shifts focus to the recursive nature of social embeddedness, in a way that can allow for agency to consider the limits of representation, and the borders of narration.
The Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society welcomes historical, multidisciplinary, and practice-based investigations that navigate the limits of representation to the borders of narration.
University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
(English)
Professor and Researcher, Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
(Spanish)
Professor and Researcher, Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
The Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Policy Advisor, Cultural Heritage, Europeana Foundation, Netherlands (English Speaker)
"Digital Cultural Heritage and Copyright"
Catedrático, Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España (Spanish Speaker)
"Imaginando escaparates. Del diseño a la narración ficcional a través de las fotografías de maniquíes"
Profesora Titular, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España (Spanish Speaker)
"Catalizadores del apetito fotográfico: el caso de Miguel Oriola y Poptografía (1980-1981)"
Profesora, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal (English Speaker)
"New Terms for New Practices: Digital Integration in Art Museums"
Università di Ferrara, Italia (English Speaker)
"As a wire-walker: shaping identity in prison through theatre"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2022 In-Person Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Simmons University, Boston, MA, USA
Urban Femina, Germany
Florida State University, USA
University of Tehran, Iran
York University, Toronto, Canada
University of Hawai'i Mānoa, USA
Doctoral student/ Michigan State University
University of California, Berkeley, USA
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
University of Arizona School of Dance, USA
Zaragoza, España
Zaragoza, España
Madrid, Spain
Zaragoza, Spain
Zaragoza, Spain
Madrid, Spain
