From mccrillis_michele at colstate.edu Sun Mar 27 22:11:30 2011 From: mccrillis_michele at colstate.edu (Michele McCrillis) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:11:30 -0400 Subject: [Yasmin_an] Posting Message-ID: *Please post the following:* ** *2012 College Arts Association Conference, Los Angeles, California. Invitation to submit proposals for the following session:* ** *Transgressing Disciplines: Artistic Practice as Research *The shifting frontiers of transdisciplinary engagement between artistic practice and research have created a multi-faceted approach to art making that seems to be entering a new phase of refinement. This session focuses on the methodologies and challenges of such approaches and their impact on contemporary art discourse. How do assumptions about aesthetic experience, production and exhibition of artworks, authorship, documentation, and the research process itself operate within these transdisciplinary, practice-based projects? What are the tools employed by artists in overcoming perceived institutional barriers between disciplines? Can practiced-based research that ventures into product development, entrepreneurship and partnerships with private industry, be reconciled with utopian social and political goals, such as providing innovative, sustainable solutions to real world problems like climate change? This panel seeks papers that explore recent collaborative artistic research projects, examining the philosophical background and ramifications of these endeavors. Artists, scholars and historians are encouraged to submit papers. Email submission materials to Michele McCrillis, Columbus State University, USA, mccrillis_michele at colstate.edu *Please go to **http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/* * and click on Call for Parcipation for requirements and guidelines. *This session is listed on page 13. -- Michele McCrillis Associate Professor Art History Department of Art Columbus State University New e-mail address after April 22, 2011: mccrillis_michele at ColumbusState.edu