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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:17:59 -0500
From: William Fisher <[email protected]>
Subject: Open call for participation…prints,
politics and Boston
Dear Folks,
All are invited to participate in an international
collaborative
project taking place during the 2003 SGC conference in
Boston, April
2-5
(<http://www.sgcprintconference2003.org/>http://www.sgcprintconference2003.org/).
You would be able to contribute from your office,
home, or at the
conference. Details are included here pasted below as
well. Some of
you have been contacted previously and will be
receiving an update
soon, along with those of you who respond to William
Fisher
<[email protected]>. Please reply as soon as
possible if
interested, and you will be included on the list of
participants.
All the best,
Bill Fisher
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February 1, 2003
Dear Artist,
We are writing to invite your participation in an
event held in
conjunction with the Boston 2003 Southern Graphics
Council
Conference. Our accepted Proposal to the Conference
Hosts (posted
below) outlines an international e-collaboration to
take place over a
24-hour period, 5:00 PM EST Tursday April 3 through
5:00 PM Friday
April 4, 2003. All that is needed to participate is
access to the
internet, email, and/or a fax machine for a few
hours. If other
modes of electronic replication and communication (a
scanner, digital
camera e.g.) are available, they are welcome. The
proposal involves
the use of remote hubs around the world with
individuals transferring
information among this hub network using the available
technology. We
will staff a 24-hour hub in Boston using incoming text
and imagery in
a conglomorate fashion to make silkscreen prints,
transfers, etc.
which will then be scanned or digitally photographed
and sent back
out through the network. We hope to raise thoughts
on the
decentrilization of information, democracy,
entitlement, empowerment
through communication, and the distribution of
authorship. If you
have ideas on hub participants (hubbers? hubbies?
huboteurs?) in
your homeland/hometown/home or far from home, please
let us know.
Students, staff, administrators, friends, family and
strangers are
all invited, and if you would like to participate as a
solo hub
member by faxing/emailing information during the
conference dates,
that would be very welcome as well.
Please see the proposed themes*** mentioned in the
Call for
Proposals below. These would be the suggested themes
for our
hub-station participants around the world, and may be
interpreted
loosely. In most cases, the word "print" may be
omitted from these
proposed themes to expand on their meanings and to
encourage your
participation. I know your input would add greatly
to this project,
and whether it be a few minutes to send an email or
several longer
periods throughout the 24 hours, any participation at
all is more
than welcome. Please feel free to publicly post this
information,
and contact Bill Fisher with any questions at
[email protected].
Anyone interested will receive specific details on the
project and
periodic updates.
Thank you for your time, all the best to you,
The Arts Faculty of Georgia College & State University
Department of Art
Georgia College & State University
CBX 094
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Phone: (478) 445-4572
Fax: (478) 445-6088
email: [email protected]
email: [email protected]
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Call for Proposals from the conference hosts (Boston
University)
To All SGC Members:
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference
MAKING HISTORIES: REVOLUTION & REPRESENTATION
BOSTON, APRIL 2–5, 2003
Next year's conference theme is inspired by Boston's
history. Boston
is known worldwide as the seat of the American
Revolution and the
struggle for freedom and representation in the
American States. The
theme of revolution suggests new models for the future
and
sociopolitical change. Representation involves
communication,
empowerment, and the transfer of information. The
scope of these
concepts now extends beyond the US to the
international community. We
invite you to present proposals treating the themes of
Revolution and
Representation broadly. Some considerations:
***Proposed Themes
>* the ongoing involvement of the print in
issues of social
justice worldwide
>* contemporary use of the print as political
expression
>* revolution in the print idiom caused by new
technologies
>* the representation of remote constituencies
>* how electronic representation conditions
the making or
communication of images
>* sociological or structural changes in the
print community
resulting from electronic representation
>* ways in which new or expanded histories are
created, and the
alteration of historical perception
>* questions of geopolitical division and
production in the
laser-print era
>* the new history of multi-media and
installation …the
changing
functions of space and image issues of
representation in education
We welcome proposals for panels, presentations,
exchange portfolios,
interactive studio collaborations including cross-
media and
exhibitions that address or present an aspect of
revolution or
representation. Proposals should be at least one page
in length.
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