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AICA Congress 2024 - Call for papers

Einsendeschluss: 28.07.2024

AICA Congress 2024 - Call for papers
Becoming Machine, Resisting the Artificial. Art in the Present Tense
Bucharest and Iaşi, Romania, 4-9 November 2024

(english version only)

Topics include but are not restricted to the following:

“Post” like in Posthumanism
The scientific turn in contemporary art
Memory, Archive, Database
Art criticism and its relevance in the new digital ecosystem
Local, global, glocal
(Former) Western, post-socialist and non-aligned art
Ethics of the fake
The crisis of the documentary form
What comes after post-photography?
Reflections of identity online and offline
History repeating
Critical imaginaries
Poetics and politics of the artificial
But is it art? Principles, values, frameworks of interpretation
Bodies and affect
Techno-capitalism
Technology as a resource: economic disparities and uneven access
AI, politics, and censorship
Resisting psychopolitics
Biomedia and the artificial nature
Means of critique in the digital age
Art biennials and their relevance today

AICA welcomes perspectives on these themes from various artistic and theoretical areas, and a wide range of knowledge and insights.

Please send abstracts of approx 400-500 words and a short bio up to 200 words to: aica.romania.2024@gmail.com

Deadline for abstract and bio submissions: July 28, 2024.
All applicants will learn on or shortly after 30th of July whether they have been successful in their applications.

Read more here.