CAA News
Affiliated Society News
For more information on CAA’s affiliated societies, visit www.collegeart.org/caa/aboutcaa/affsocieties.html or write to Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA director of programs, at elemakis@collegeart.org.
American Society for Aesthetics
The sixty-third annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) was held October 19–22, 2005, at the Westin Hotel in Providence, R.I. Christopher Rothko, the son of the abstract painter Mark Rothko, delivered the keynote address, entitled “The Artist’s Reality: Mark Rothko’s Crystal Ball,” at the Rhode Island School of Design. For more information about ASA’s current activities, visit www.aesthetics-online.org.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) is awarding a conference grant of up to $500 to an ABD student of the art of the United States (colonial art to 1945) who is delivering a paper at the 2006 CAA Annual Conference in Boston. AHAA is particularly concerned with helping students who have no support for conference attendance from their institutions or other sources. The applicant must be a member of AHAA. For details, write to kimberlyorcutt@aol.com. Deadline: November 25, 2005.
Community College Professors of Art and Art History
The Community College Professors of Art and Art History seeks participants for its roundtable discussion, “Best Practices: An Interactive Forum (We’re All in the Audience Together)” at the CAA conference in Boston. Topics will include but are not limited to: art history, curriculum, associate of fine art (AFA) program development, professional development, student transfer credit, and service learning. Please prepare to exchange information and network. For more details, please contact Thomas Morrissey at tomartist2004@yahoo.com or tmorrissey@ccri.edu.
Leonardo/ISAST
Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (ISAST), through the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), has begun two student initiatives. One is a mentoring project to initiate programs and activities that benefit the professional development of students and emerging professionals in the fields of art, science, and technology. Second, in conjunction with students at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, we have initiated a blog to encourage and stimulate international contact among students in art, science, and technology; please visit www.timingingames.blogspot.com to participate. Proposals from other student groups interested in creating blogs on the intersections of art, science, and technology are welcomed. For input and more information the two projects, contact Gabiel Harp, LEF graduate student committee chair, at gharp@umich.edu.
In addition, we invite all CAA members to submit abstracts to the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS). LABS is an online database of abstracts of MFA or PhD theses that in some way relate to the intersections of art, science, and technology. Our quarterly submission deadlines are: March 30, June 30, September 30, and December 30. For more information, see http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/journal/calls/labsprojectcall.html.
New Media Caucus
The New Media Caucus (NMC) announces the inaugural issue of Media-N, a peer-reviewed and invitational journal of digital and media arts; the journal is published at www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/index.htm. The journal aims to reflect the energy and interests of media-arts practitioners, educators, and theorists. Each issue features a call for themed texts for forthcoming editions; we encourage you to submit texts for future issues. We also seek guest editors with proposals for themed editions of the journal. Please contact Rachel Clarke, editor-in-chief, at rclarke@csus.edu.
NMC is hosting two sessions at CAA’s 2006 conference: Marisa Olson, an artist and editor and curator at Rhizome.org, is chairing “From Database and Place to Bio-tech and Bots: Relationality versus Autonomy in Media Art”; and Mina Cheon of the Maryland Institute College of Art is leading “Asia Effects in New Media.” NMC is also organizing an exhibition of new-media work at Art Interactive Gallery, a nonprofit experimental art space in Cambridge, Mass. For details, see www.newmediacaucus.org.
Society for Photographic Education
The Society for Photographic Education will hold its 43rd national conference in Chicago, Ill., March 23–36, 2006. The conference theme is “A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future.” The 2006 conference seeks to explore the current cultural and conceptual evolution of the photographic image and the influence new technologies have on our understanding of what it means to make photographs both in and out of our departments. Henry Jenkins, DeFlorez Professor of the Humanities and director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, will give the keynote address. Carl Toth, artist-in-residence and head of the Department of Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will be the honored educator. In addition to these featured talks, more than forty general session speakers, portfolio reviews, preconference workshops, an exhibits fair, and unique opportunities for students will be offered. For more information, visit www.spenational.org.
Southern Graphics Council
This year, the Southern Graphics Council (SGC) formed the Southern Graphics Educational Outreach Organization (SGEO), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity that functions as the charitable arm of SGC. This new organization will work hand in hand with SGC to continue its educational goals and to offer new awards and scholarships to the printmaking community.
SCG will present its international conference, entitled “Genetic ImPrint,” at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, April 5–9, 2006. The conference will discuss the intersection of biotechnology and printmaking, consider issues surrounding genetics, and reflect on the current and future condition of humanity and printmaking. “Genetic ImPrint” will promote practices, with humor and seriousness, that map, document, and recombine the codes that structure both the human genome and printmaking.
Women’s Caucus for Art
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) national conference, “Digging Deeper to Build New Paradigms,” will be held February 19–22, 2006, in Boston, Mass. It features Coco Fusco as the keynote speaker, several panel discussions, and two related exhibitions. WCA’s national juried exhibition, Vital Voices: Women’s Visions, will be held at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Mass. The Jewish Women Artists Network has also organized a juried show, L’Dor V’Dor: From Generation to Generation, to be held at Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Mass. The 2006 Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented at a benefit dinner and a public ceremony on February 22. For full conference details, please visit www.nationalwca.org.