Chicano Art Conference: Latino Art Now! Re-imaging Global Intersections ⇒
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Latino Art Now! Re-imaging Global Intersections ConferenceFifth Biennial ConferenceApril 7-9, 2016Chicago, Illinois
The
Latino Art Now! Re-imaging Global Intersections Conference in Chicago
will examine the contemporary shifting contours of US Latino art and the
(trans) national
and global cultural forces that continuously shape it and how it in turn
shapes these forces.
At
mid-decade we are witnessing growth of the field in American Art
History as well as in Latino visual culture. Renewed visibility for
artists in a wave of major
exhibitions at national museums and galleries, the expansion of
curatorial and academic infrastructure, and new publication and research
initiatives tend to signal wider and expanding opportunities. Can we
at the present moment map Latino art activity within
a larger transnational, hemispheric and global context and discourse?
Can we re-image a more global American art? How have Latino artists
entered transnational and global art networks? Taking cities as
critical spaces of globalization, what can we say of
urban interventions as sites of artivism? What are the future
directions? In other words, what is Latino Art Now?
We invite multidisciplinary submissions of 300-500 word paper abstracts on the following themes:
· Artivisms/Social Practice Art
· The City as Site and Source
· Outside the White Cube: Digital Interventions
· Queer Geographies of Latino Art
· Intersections: Latino/Latin American
· Comparative Art Histories
· Curatorial Negotiations: Authority and Display
· Recalibrating Framework and Canon
· Art from Emergent Latino Groups
· Public/Private Collecting and Collections
· Global Networks and Intersections
· Latino Futurisms
· Recovering Early Artists and Legacies
· Reassessing Design and Architecture
· Latino Art Market
· Art as an Economic Stimulus
· Defying Categories
Abstract Submissions and Deadline for Conference Papers, Panels, Roundtable Conversations
The
conference organizers seek original, innovative papers and panels
engaging a wide range of visual media including painting, sculpture,
graphics, photography, installation,
architecture and design, digital and new media.
In addition, the conference will feature a series of Roundtable Conversations on Artists in the Making of the Equitable City.
Please submit paper/panel/roundtable abstracts electronically to: iuplr-chicago@uic.edu
Abstract/CV Submission deadline is Monday, October 19, 2015
Selection Process
The
IUPLR Conference Program Committee will select papers that will be
presented at the conference. Selected panelists will be notified via
email by Monday, November
16, 2015.
Conference Papers
Selected
conference papers should be 20 minutes in length (10 pages
double-space). We request that each selected panelist submit a finished
paper no later than March
15, 2016. All accepted presenters must register.
About the
Latino Art Now! Conference
The
Latino Art Now Conference was first held in 2005 at Hunter College in
New York. Since then, it has become the leading national forum for
artists, art historians,
art professionals, educators, scholars, critics, collectors and art
dealers. Its overarching conceptual aim is to explore U.S. Latino art
as part of contemporary American visual culture and art while advancing
awareness, education, scholarship and knowledge
in this emerging filed of inquiry.
Conference Website: http://www.latino.si.edu/LatinoArtNow/_PDF/LAN2016_call4papers.pdf
Conference Venues
Chicago Cultural Center
Thursday, April 7, 2016
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center East, Conference Center
Friday and Saturday, April 8-9, 2016
750 Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
National Museum of Mexican Art
Friday, April 8, 2016
1852 West 19th Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Saturday, April 9, 2016
3000 North Elbridge, Chicago, IL 60618
Registration Categories
All conference attendees must register
General Registration: $90/$35 per day
Artists Registration: $40/$15 per day
Student Registration with ID: $25/$10 per day
Registration
includes admittance to all panel sessions, workshops, art exhibitions
and book fair; admittance to plenary session, welcoming reception on
Thursday;
admittance to the reception on Friday at the National Museum of Mexican
Art; admittance to the reception at UIC; and LAN Conference Program
booklet.
Registration Website
<http://www.iuplr.uic.edu/>
Transportation and Hotel
All registered participants are responsible for their own reservations, air or ground transportation, and lodging costs.
LAN Conference Hotels are (Pending room block agreement)
The Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro Downtown
733 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60661 (312) 829-5000
The W Hotel City Center
172 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603 (312)
332-1200 LAN Conference is organized by
· Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR)
headquartered at the University of Illinois at Chicago and The Smithsonian Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution
For additional information or questions regarding this Call for Papers, please contact Olga Herrera at oherre15@uic.edu