CALL FOR PANELISTS - WOMEN AND/OF SPEED

Women and/of Speed is the working title for a panel to be included in
the program Night Vision, sponsored by Lesley University and the
Boston

Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art as part of the 2007 Cyberarts
Festival. The panel will be held on the evening of May 4th. The focus of
the panel will be the ways in which women artists have engaged the
notion of speed in their artistic production.

The panel organizers hope to include perspectives from artists, art
historians, and art critics. Some possible topics for this panel:
consideration of the historical role of speed in women’s artistic production; gender constructs associated with speed and art; feminist responses to the
impact of new technologies on the speed at which works of art are
produced today; and a close examination of works by contemporary women
artists that engage the idea of speed.

The panel organizers are open to any topic that engages the relationship between speed and women’s art. However, since the panel is part of the Cyberarts Festival, we are particularly interested in submissions related to the cyberarts.

Please send a one-page abstract and a c.v. to the panel organizers: art
historian Cynthia Fowler at [email protected]; and video artist Bebe Beard
at [email protected].

The deadline for submission is February 18, 2007.

Applicants will be notified of decisions by March 16, 2007.

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Cynthia Fowler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities, Social
Sciences and Management
Wentworth Institute of Technology