From vince.dziekan at monash.edu Tue Feb 21 06:36:40 2012 From: vince.dziekan at monash.edu (Vince Dziekan) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:36:40 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Re. Announcing publication: 'Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition' Message-ID: Dear Fibreculture friends and colleagues (Apologies for any cross-posting) Just taking the opportunity to announce the publication of my first book, *Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum*. The book examines how digital technologies are playing an increasingly important role in guiding the curatorial strategies of contemporary art museums. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to a broad range of topics, including digital mediation, spatial practice, the multimedial museum, and curatorial design. Please feel free to distribute through your peer and professional networks. For more information, I can be contacted directly [vince.dziekan at monash.edu] or, alternatively, enquiries can be made through Alice Gillam (Marketing Assistant) at Intellect [alice at intellectbooks.com ]. Cheers Vince Full title: Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum Auhor: Vince Dziekan ISBN: 9781841504766 Published by: Intellect | Publication: January 2012 Price: ?24.95/ $40 Binding: Paperback| Dimensions: 230x174 Territory: World | Readership: Specific http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4784/ http://www.amazon.com/Virtuality-Art-Exhibition-Curatorial-Multimedial/dp/1841504769 -- Dr Vince Dziekan Faculty of Art Design & Architecture Monash University Melbourne, Australia Research associations: FACT, Liverpool Leonardo Electronic Almanac National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne e: vince.dziekan at artdes.monash.edu.au www.vincedziekan.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In /Uprising /Marcus Breen employs Walter Benjamin?s arguments about art as a ?politicizing instrument ... to allow for the proletariat to speak for themselves? (p. 30). Following this assertion, we would like to invite contributors to submit papers that reflect on this claim, to support, challenge or deeply interrogate it. Discussions could include analysis of the ways the Internet enables the ?proletariat? and the abject to speak for themselves (following Julia Kristeva, Neil Larsen, Judith Butler, Arthur Kroker and others). The creation of new styles of false consciousness is open for discussion. Does the Internet require a new kind of speaking, one which does not fit older forms of class discourse? And what role does art, if any, play in this speaking? Can the Internet be understood as a new media tool offering emancipation given the political economy of the media in general? Are there lessons to be learned about proletarian political mobilization due to the Internet after the so-called Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street? Discussion about the meaning of ?proletarianization? in the Internet era could take up the interpretive work Breen offers on the new definition of the term in an era when cultural ?stuff? is largely unregulated in a neo-liberal context. Shifts in the circulation and availability of otherwise regulated media differ from nation to nation and geographical region to region, suggesting that proletarianization due to the Internet takes a multiplicity of forms. The implications for political mobilization may offer unprecedented opportunities for political action across the spectrum. Questions about the challenges to the order of liberal democracy abound and are welcome from either theoretical or empirical case study perspectives or in innovative multidisciplinary modalities. Abstracts (500 words): due 1^st May 2012, with a view to submit articles by 1st September. Abstracts should be sent to the general editor, Warwick Mules at w.mules at bigpond.com For submission guidelines and to view Transformations online: http://www.transformationsjournal.org. -- Dr Grayson Cooke Course Coordinator BMedia (acting) Director of Higher Degree Research Training School of Arts and Social Sciences Southern Cross University PO Box 157 East Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: +61 2 6620 3839 http://works.bepress.com/grayson_cooke/ http://www.transformationsjournal.org