Call for Papers/Proposals – Visual In-Sights: Theory, Method, Practice

26-27 June 2014, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: 31 January 2014

Keynote Speakers:

Marcus Banks (Oxford University)

David Campbell (www.david-campbell.org)

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (Amber Collective)

Organised by the Visualities Research Group at Newcastle University, this interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together an international community of established and emerging scholars, creative practitioners, visual artists and arts-based, community project leaders who research, use and work with visual materials and visual methods. Contributions are invited that demonstrate the cutting edge in research and practice around the multiple spaces of the visual, and which explore the porous boundary between the theory, method and practice of the visual.

We seek academic papers and/or proposals for multi-media presentations, break-out sessions using arts/performance/installation, contemporaneous fieldwork exercises and workshops, and exhibitive displays. Contributions may speak, but are not limited, to the themes of:

·        Art and Aesthetics

·        Visual Cultures

·        Visualities and Ethics

·        Visual Communication and Visual Practice

Please submit an abstract or artist proposal of up to 250 words to visual.insights@ncl.ac.uk  by 31 January 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on or before 28 February 2014. Registration will open on 31 March 2014. The conference fee is £80 (academics), £50 (artists), and £30 (students and unwaged)

For more information please visit: www.ncl.ac.uk/visual-insights/

Enquiries: visual.insights@ncl.ac.uk

Organising Committee

Daniel Bos, Elaine Campbell, Kate Manzo, Monica Moreno-Figueroa, Matthew F. Rech and Michael Richardson