Dear Colleagues,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>I want to personally invite you to submit an abstract for a paper/panel/workshop to our upcoming conference in Melbourne, Australia on February 6 and 7, 2014. This international conference is the culmination of a 3 year research project examining creative and critical approaches
to evaluation and value in relation to community-engaged arts practice.<br><br>The abstracts are due mid September with responses confirmed shortly after. <span style="font-size:12px">See below for the CFP. We also hope to have a 'Call for Artists' soon as well!</span> Please forward this email invitation to other researchers and artists who you think may be interested in this conference. Registration opens in a few weeks at <span style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-o/" target="_blank">www.spectresofevaluation.com</a>. In the meantime, you can register your interest by signing up for our mailing list at that website. Apologies if you are already on our mailing list!<br>
<br>Hoping you are all keeping well and being creative,<br><br><br><br><br>Marnie<br><br></span>Dr Marnie Badham, Artist- Researcher<br>
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Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music <br>The University of Melbourne<br>
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<td height="20"><span style="font-size:16px;color:#002952;font-weight:bold">SAVE THE DATE and CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference in MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 6 & 7 February 2014</span></td>
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<span style="font-size:12px">Join us on the banks of the Maribyrnong River at Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia. This international arts conference is presented by <a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-i/" target="_blank">The Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne</a> & <a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-d/" target="_blank">Footscray Community Arts Centre.</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px">Keynote speakers include artists and academics, with more names to be released soon. Speaker highlights include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px">• <a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-h/" target="_blank">Dr Sophie Hope</a> (UK), Artist/Researcher/Academic<span style="font-size:10px"> (pictured above)</span><br>
• <a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-k/" target="_blank">Ted Purves</a>, (USA), Artist/Researcher/Academic<br>
• <a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-u/" target="_blank">Tania Bruguera</a> (CUBA/ USA), Artist</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><b>For more information:</b></span><br>
<a href="mailto:contact@spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Enquiry%20-%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation" target="_blank">contact@spectresofevaluation.com</a><br>
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<span style="font-size:12px">Centre for Cultural Partnerships,VCA & MCM, </span><span style="font-size:12px">University of Melbourne.</span></p>
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Today, the making of art is haunted by spectres of evaluation, with competing claims and judgments about the limits, uses, and value of art. This international conference examines creative and critical approaches to evaluation and value in relation to community-engaged arts practice.</p>
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Taking its cue from the artwork <i>Spectre of Evaluation</i> (Thomas Hirschhorn, 2008)<a href="http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-b/" target="_blank"> www.e-flux.com/announcements/art-and-politics-as-usual</a>, the conference looks to reconfigure the relationship between artists, art experts, and what the artist terms the “non-exclusive audience.”<br>
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Through diverse and creative formats and a range of local and international speakers, these timely conversations also explore the relationship between established community arts practices and the appearance of new forms of collaboration and engagement across a range of disciplines, from participatory design to social practice.<br>
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This conference marks the culmination of a 3 year Australian Research Council-funded Linkage project “Towards an Integrated Approach for Evaluating Community-based Arts” with investigators Dr Lachlan MacDowall (University of Melbourne), Dr Martin Mulligan (RMIT University), Frank Panucci (Australia Council for the Arts) and Dr Marnie Badham as Research Fellow (University of Melbourne).<br>
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<b><font size="4">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></b><br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="511"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="242">
<p><b>Deadline 15 September 2013, email to <a href="mailto:contact@spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Submission%20for%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation" target="_blank">contact@spectresofevaluation.com</a></b></p><p>
The Spectres of Evaluation conference committee is now inviting abstracts <span>for</span>
presentations, workshops and panel presentations connecting themes
around ‘art’, ‘community’ and ‘value’. In particular, we are interested
in receiving proposals that address
the following themes:<br>
● Critical approaches to evaluation of community-based arts including negative value and potential <span>for</span> harm, network theories, dialogic methods, and new aesthetic language<br>
● The use of creative, participatory and democratized methods in cultural measurement<br>
● Re-presentational practices such as exhibition, evaluation, critical writing and curating involving community-based art<br>
● The value of art as labour and the role of the artist in society<br>
● The competing lenses of evaluation: perspectives from political,
health, justice, international development, education, or arts sectors</p><p>● Alternative systems of value in community-based arts: gift
exchange and reciprocity, creative commons, feminist economies, peer
assessment, crowd funding, and risk assessment<br>
● The implications of new technologies, open source hacking,
digital research methods and communication, and data visualization on
arts evaluation practice<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Proposal outline:</b><br>
<span style="font-size:12px">Please <span>submit</span> your
brief proposal in relation to one of the conference themes listed above,
including the following headings on a one-page Word document attached
to your email.</span></span></p>
<p>● Name, position, institution, contact information<br>
● Title of presentation or workshop<br>
● Format (choose one): </p>
<ol><li>Theoretical papers or innovative case studies(20 minutes)</li><li>Participatory workshops (60 minutes)</li><li>Panel presentation, maximum 3 presenters, 1 chair (90 minutes)</li></ol>
<p>● Abstract (300 words)<br>
● Biography (100 words)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Closing date:</b></span><br>
Please email your one page <span>submission</span> by Sunday 15 September 2013 to <a href="mailto:contact@spectresofevaluation.com" target="_blank">contact@spectresofevaluation.com</a>, Centre <span>for</span> Cultural Partnerships, University of Melbourne.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Date of advice:</b></span><br>
Papers will be reviewed by the conference committee and authors will be notified of the outcome of their <span>submission</span> by Friday 27 September 2013.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Post-conference publication:</b></span><br>
Selected presenters may be invited to <span>submit</span> a chapter based on their paper <span>for</span> a publication on the themes of the conference.</p>
<p><span>For</span> more information:<br>
<a href="mailto:contact@spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Call%20for%20Submissions%3B%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation" target="_blank">contact@spectresofevaluation.com</a><br>
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