[artbooks] Conference notice

Date:    Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:12:22 -0500
From:    "Brown, Matthew P" <matthew-p-brown at UIOWA.EDU>
Subject: CFP: Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place - CBAA 
First Biennial Conference (6/1/08; 1/8/09-1/10/09)

College Book Art Association Biennial Conference

ART, FACT, AND ARTIFACT: THE BOOK IN TIME AND PLACE

January 8-10, 2009

hosted by the University of Iowa Center for the Book (UICB)

Call for Proposals
Proposals due June 1, 2008

The art of the book has been at once visionary and documentary, imagining 
a future that has yet to exist while finding inspiration from the 
resources of the past. The first biennial conference of the College Book 
Art Association seeks to bridge the worlds of book art, book history, 
cultural criticism, and curatorial work through appreciation of the book 
as an aesthetic sensorium. Scholarship, artistic practice, and the digital 
age have evoked for us the multimedia nature of the book experience. 
Animated by practices that define anew the cultural record, contemporary 
book creators unsettle the categories whereby art is valued and 
appreciated, making new objects that express the range of human 
experience. Roused by research into the materiality of texts, humanities 
scholars and institutional curators have summoned new facts to explain 
communication technologies, writing an alternative history of word and 
image in the book format. Pressed by political urgencies, artists and 
researchers have measured the meanings of art and fact through bookwork 
that serves as cultural criticism. At a time when the book arts have never 
been more vital, "Art, Fact, and Artifact" builds from these energies and 
seeks presentations, papers, and studio demonstrations from artists and 
scholars interested in the future, present, and past of the book as an 
expressive form.

**KEYNOTES TO BE ANNOUNCED**

Along with session programming, the conference agenda will include 
exhibits, tours of facilities, open discussion time, and portfolio review. 
Further details will be forthcoming.

For the conference program, the organizers invite submissions for 
individual presentations, pre-formed panels, and studio demonstrations.

POSSIBLE TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

- Artist presentations of current work or work-in-progress

- Studio demonstrations: process/experimentation/resurgence

- Questions of materiality: the actual, the physical, the virtual, the 
digital

- The book as document

- Curating and collecting: what do we want? how do we know?

- The procedural turn, then and now

- Flat art, spatial art, temporal art, book art

- Intimacy and the book: sex, touch, the private, the public

- Institutions and theories of value

- The book as witness

- Questions of practice: modeling methods

- Ideologies of the book

- Craft perspectives: the hand in the work

- History and documentation: writing our history and our now

- Humble books and an aesthetics of the ordinary

- Conceptualism, bookwork, and installation

- The role of criticism

- Space, pace, and plane

- The theory and practice of exhibition

- Reading and the hand-operated codex

- The archive as muse

**DEADLINE: PROPOSALS DUE JUNE 1, 2008**

Send proposals as email attachments to:

center-for-the-book at uiowa.edu<mailto:center-for-the-book at uiowa.edu>

or

University of Iowa Center for the Book
216 North Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Attn: Art, Fact, and Artifact

All proposal submissions should include: proposal title; name and contact 
information; a biography or vita of participants; audio-visual needs.

INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS: A 200-250 word description of a paper (abstract for 
a 20-minute talk), artist presentation (20 minutes), or studio 
demonstration(include time requirements for demonstrations).

ORGANIZED SESSIONS: a 250-word overview of proposal. Organizers should 
assemble 3 speakers for a paper session (include individual paper 
abstracts in addition to overview), 3-4 presenters for an artist 
presentation (include individual descriptions in addition to overview), 1 
moderator and up to 4 contributors for a panel/roundtable discussion, and 
2-3 studio specialists for a demonstration.

FOR ARTIST PRESENTATIONS, please include 5-10 representative examples of 
work to be shown (jpegs, pdf or powerpoint).

FOR STUDIO DEMONSTRATIONS, detail facilities requirements, including 
equipment, materials & supplies, and space requirements. Please be 
specific.

ALTERNATIVE FORMATS ENCOURAGED.


Graduate students: the CBAA encourages graduate student participation. The 
UICB has secured funding to help defray costs for student presenters. To 
apply, include a brief letter describing your need for assistance.

Presenters must be members of the College Book Art Association. To join, 
visit the CBAA website at http://www.collegebookart.org/

For more information about the call for proposals, contact:

Matthew P. Brown (matthew-p-brown at uiowa.edu<
mailto:matthew-p-brown at uiowa.edu>), or
Julia Leonard (julia-leonard at uiowa.edu<mailto:julia-leonard at uiowa.edu>).

For more information about the UICB, see our website at 
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook



Matthew P. Brown

Associate Professor, English/UICB

Director, The UI Center for the Book

http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook



EPB 308, University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA  52242

phone: (319) 335-2365

fax: (319) 335-2535

email: matthew-p-brown at uiowa.edu<mailto:matthew-p-brown at uiowa.edu>


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