Get ready for Prospectives Symposium 2024 - a postgraduate online conference to discuss feminisms, digital art, and activism!

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This half-day symposium aims to provide a platform for sharing and discussing research to investigate the link between arts and activism with a focus on feminism.

In these past few years, we have witnessed many crises and disrupting phenomena that have been engaged with, problematised and critiqued by feminism: the rise of the alt-right, the refugee crisis in Europe, climate change, constant attacks on basic civil rights including freedom of speech, reproductive rights and rights for the LGBTQAI+ community, the pandemic, State violence against minorities, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conflict in the Middle East, a worldwide energy crisis and all else.

The event will engage with art, feminism and activism through 2 key notes, a conversation and a session of papers presented by post-graduate students. The session will engage with the topic adopting a multidisciplinary perspective that will include visual arts, digital arts, performance, photography, sound art, curatorial practices and art history.

This conference develops from the RSE-funded Digital Art and Activism Network and the Prospectives Symposium (SGSAH International Summer School in 2021/22 and Global Connect 2023) with the aim to provide key training and transferable skills and knowledge for graduate students and networking (key to activism as well as research).

Programme

Thursday 19 September 2024

Online

2 PM Keynote 1 - Prof. Katy Deepwell (Middlesex University)

3.15 Postgraduate Session

Marie-Chantal Hamrock, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

Alison Scott, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

Charly Harbord, Abertay University, Dundee, UK

Nico Hansford, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore USA

Rachel Finkelstein, University of Texas, Dallas

Chiara Borgonovo, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan

Giulia Perin, Sapienza University of Rome

5.30 PM Laura Leuzzi in conversation with Prof. Xtine Burrough, UT Dallas

6.30 PM Keynote 2 - Sandy Stone academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist.

Chaired by Laura Leuzzi (RGU, Aberdeen) and Joseph DeLappe (Abertay University, Dundee).

In collaboration with UT Dallas.

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Biographies

Katy Deepwell is a feminist art critic, based in London. She is Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University. She was the founder and commissioning editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1998-2017), and continues to run KT press https://www.ktpress.co.uk, publishing books on feminism and contemporary art. The latest KT press books are: De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts (2023) and 50 Feminist Art Manifestos(2020). She recently edited a special issue on Beyond/Around Feminist Aesthetics Arts,MDPI (2023) and, amongst her 10+ books, is Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz, 2020).

Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (c.1936) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. She is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab, 1992) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, and Humanities Research Institute Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Stone has worked in and written about film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming. Stone is transgender and is considered a founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies

xtine burrough is a hybrid artist. She engages participatory audiences at the intersection of media art, remix, and digital poetry. Her creative practice rests on the communicative power of art-making as a vehicle for exploring the boundaries between humans and the technologies they create, embody, and employ. Her practice is iterative; it is conceptual and poetic. She collaborates within and outside the university with diverse populations from students to virtual factory workers in projects that yield multiple layers for various forms of participation in the creation of poetic moments of collaborative meaning-making. Strategically, she archives her work and process, and articulates the relationships between what she makes and does with how she thinks about technology and culture in articles, chapters, and books. burrough uses remix and appropriation as strategies for activism and speaking back to structures of power; and she has edited volumes and portfolio sections for other artists to write, reflect on, expose, and archive their practices.

Chairs

Laura Leuzzi is a contemporary art historian and curator. She is the author of articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogues, with her research focused on early video art, European video art histories, art and feminism, and new media. She is co-editor of several publications, including REWINDItalia. Early Video Art in Italy (2015) and EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s (2019), Richard Demarco: The Italian connection (2022) and most recently INCITE: Digital Art and Activism (2023). She sits on the Executive Board of Media Art History and the Advisory Board of Live Art Ireland. She is founding co-director of RE_EXHIBIT_REWIND Online Gallery (RGU/University of Dundee). Currently, she is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen).

Joseph DeLappe, born San Francisco 1963, is an artist, activist and educator, he relocated to Scotland from the USA in 2017. He is the Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University, Dundee. Working with electronic and digital media since 1983, projects in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the world. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China, the Southern Utah Museum of Art and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among many others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media, including the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Art in America, The Guardian and the BBC. He has authored several book chapters, including “Me and My Predator(s): Tactical Remembrance and Critical Atonement, Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology, Open Humanties Press, 2022; “Making Politics: Engaged Social Tactics, A conversation between Joseph DeLappe and Dr. Laura Leuzzi”, Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, Routledge, 2022; and co-edited with Leuzzi, the book INCITE: Digital Art and Activism, 2023, Peacock Visual Arts.

Cover Image: Marie-Chantal Hamrock

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First published: 4 September 2024