Tenth International Conference on The Arts in Society The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society 22-24 JULY 2015 | IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON | LONDON, UK | ARTSINSOCIETY.COM Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society “The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society” Imperial College London | London, UK | 22-24 July 2015 www.artsinsociety.com www.facebook.com/ArtsInSociety.CG @artsinsociety | #ArtsinSoc Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society www.artsinsociety.com First published in 2015 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Publishing, LLC www.commongroundpublishing.com © 2015 Common Ground Publishing All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact [email protected]. Designed by Ebony Jackson Cover image by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope The Arts in Society artsinsociety.com Dear Delegate, Welcome to the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society. The Arts in Society Conference aims to discover what values, instincts, and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world. Your participation helps to shape the conference themes and content, while fostering the spirit of collaborative possibilities. Next year, the conference will be held in Los Angeles, USA, 10-12 August 2016 at the University of California, Los Angeles with the special focus The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. In addition to organizing The Arts in Society Conference, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference, and we encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at in both print and digital formats. We invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including humanities, design, technology, learning, and the image, to name several (http://commongroundpublishing.com). Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are committed to creating a more accessible, open, and reliable peer review process. Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for academics from developing countries, for emerging scholars, and for researchers from institutions that are historically teaching-focused. Thank you to all who have put such a phenomenal amount of work into preparing for The Arts in Society Conference. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues: Rachael Arcario, Tamsyn Gilbert, Monica Hillison, Lily Miller-Criner, and Kim Kendall. We wish you the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe. Yours sincerely, Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing | About Common Ground Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media. Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves. Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book imprint offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works. The Arts in Society Knowledge Community Exploring innovative theories, practices, and critical analyses of the arts The Arts in Society | Knowledge Community The Arts in Society Knowledge Community is brought together around a common shared interest in the role of the arts in society. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a collection of peer reviewed journals, and book imprint–exploring the affordances of the new digital media. Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. Publishing The Arts in Society Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Arts in Society Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, The Arts in Society, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome. Community The Arts in Society Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter, or explore our new social media platform, Scholar. The Arts in Society | Themes Teaching and learning Theme 1: Arts Education through and about the • Ways of seeing, ways of knowing, ways of learning arts • Teaching and Learning Arts Practices • Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education • Literacy and the literary: texts at school • Arts pedagogies • Art history: purpose and pedagogy • Creative arts in the humanities • Art as self-inquiry • The work of the arts student, researcher, and teacher Interrogating arts Theme 2: Arts Theory and History histories, theories, • Sense-Making: Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life paradigms, and frameworks for critical • Mimesis: perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’ analysis • Authenticity and voice • Continuity and change in arts histories • Cultural theory in art history • Naming and classifying art forms • Defining the aesthetic • Defining the avant-garde: the creative, the innovative, the new • Categorizing genres • The ethics of art and arts practice • Arts products: aura and artifact • The work of the critic • Abstraction in art • Crossing borders: anthropology, ethnography, and art • Art movements The Arts in Society | Themes Examining the use of Theme 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts technologies and media • New Media, Internet, and Digital Arts in the arts • Moving pictures: Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia • From passive viewer to active user: new artforms and audience interactivity • Design Technologies • Spatial and architectonic arts • The art of games and