CFP: Collage Culture (2/24/03; 3/28/03)

Call for Papers

Panel: "Collage Culture"

CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE: The University of Iowa's 3rd Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy, March 28-30,
2003

Collage is consistently identified as the most significant technique
of twentieth-century art, defining a new aesthetic in painting,
sculpture, film, music and literature. For art historian Katherine
Hoffman, collage may be seen as a quintessential twentieth-century art
form with multiple layers and signposts pointing to a variety of forms
and realities and to the possibility or suggestion of countless new
realities. Behind all such critical judgments is the recognition that
in the moment of cutting-and- pasting that defines collage, the
constellation of reading / writing / consuming / producing is
drastically altered. While almost all critics agree that the technique
of collage is an important development in twentieth- century art,
there are still many questions about the specific practices and impact
of collage. This panel seeks papers that investigate the history and
future of this ubiquitous and troubling technique. Especially welcome
are intermedia readings of collages, historical readings that link
collage to the unprecedented economic and technological forces that
redefined mass culture, everyday life, and the mediascape throughout
the twentieth century, and close readings of specific collage works.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
*Collage and the Avant-garde
*Collage and Mass Culture
*Collage and Postmodernism
*Literary Collage
*Collage Poetics
*Visual Collage and Assemblage
*Ready-Mades
*Aural Collage, Sampling, and Hip-Hop
*Found Footage Film
*Ernst, Debord, and Other Theorists of Collage
*'Zines and other Self-Published Collage and Xerox Art
*Collage and Emerging Digital Media

Please submit abstracts by February 24, 2003 to:

David Banash
Department of English
308 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
david-banash_at_uiowa.edu

Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged.

For more information about the CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE conference,
please visit our website at www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf

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