[Nettime-nl] Fact and Fiction: Gender in the Interplay of Art and Science [u]

["Geert Lovink [c]" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> Interdisciplinary and international conference
>
> Fact and Fiction: Gender in the Interplay of Art and Science
>
> October 14, 2005
>  
> Institute for Gender Studies
> Radboud University Nijmegen
>  
> The Institute for Gender Studies is pleased to announce the 
> international conference Fact and Fiction: Gender in the Interplay of 
> Art and Science in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Bringing 
> together a wide range of scholars and researchers from Europe as well 
> as North- America, this one-day interdisciplinary event will take 
> place at Friday, October 14, 2005 at the Radboud University Nijmegen, 
> the Netherlands. You are cordially invited to attend this conference.
>  
> More details, further information about the workshops and the 
> registration form is available at: www.ru.nl/genderstudies
>  
> With presentations, discussions, and performances.
>  
> Guest speakers and performers:
> Prof. Bracha L. Ettinger - contemporary artist and Professor of 
> Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics of Art, Leeds University, UK;
> Greetje Bijma - voice artist, NL;
> Prof. dr. Jackie Stacey - Professor of Cultural Studies and Women’s 
> Studies, Lancaster University, UK
> Dr. Stefanie Seibold - Lecturer Art University, Linz / Museum of 
> Modern Art, Vienna, Austria;
> Dr. Hannah Bosma - Researcher Gender Issues in Electro Vocal Music, NL
> Soheila Najand - Artist, Interart, NL
> Prof. Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, USA;
> Bastienne Kramer - Artist, NL
> Prof.dr. Robert Zwijnenberg – University Maastricht, University 
> Leiden, NL
> Prof. Judith Roof, University of Michigan, USA;
>
> and many others….
>
> Thematic Outline
> The overall theme of the conference concerns the interrelations 
> between art and science, both as distinct discursive domains, and as 
> modes of practice in the construction of knowledge and power. Whereas 
> the radical split between art and science is of relatively recent 
> date, modern art and modern science have, throughout the twentieth 
> century, generally been considered to represent altogether different 
> ways of engaging with the world, of trying to gain insight into its 
> operations, and of expressing the complexities of human and non- human 
> life within it. The current upsurge of interest in the interrelations 
> between these respective domains suggests, however, that these strict 
> disciplinary boundaries no longer hold. Indeed, recent developments in 
> both artistic and scientific practices increasingly point to the 
> multiple, complex, and profound ways in which the two fields overlap, 
> intersect, and mutually constitute, as well as differ, diverge, and 
> complement each other. Welcomed and celebrated by some, the apparent 
> rapprochement between art and science has also been downplayed, even 
> denied by other critics and theorists. What has thus far remained 
> obscure, however, is the function and role of gender, both in marking 
> and maintaining the strict separation between the two discursive 
> domains, and in hailing their putative merging and/or mutual 
> permeation.
>  
> Aims
> The aims of the conference are twofold. First, by inviting scholars, 
> artists, scientists, and critics to enter into dialogue with one 
> another, it hopes to open up a space in which critically to explore 
> the complex interactions, crossovers, differences, and divergences, 
> between art and science and their respective practitioners. Second, 
> since the Institute for Gender Studies has, since its foundation, 
> served as a platform for interdisciplinary gender research, the 
> conference seeks to foreground this central category of 
> differentiation, and interrogate its role in the interaction between 
> art and science, both as distinct discursive domains, and as practices 
> of power/knowledge.
>
>  Plenary events
> Opening, Keynote Address
> Roundtable Discussion 'Art, Theory, and Criticism'
>  
> Workshops
> A. Materialised Meanings and Artistic Representations of Mary - 
> session I & II
> B. Gender & Performance – session I & II
> C. Posthumanist Science/Fiction – session I & II
> D. ‘Boundary Making, Boundary Breaking' The Gender Politics of 
> Boundary Work in Computer Science
> E. First Things First: Facts and Fictions about Sexuality
>
> Please register before October 1st, 2005 at: www.ru.nl/genderstudies  


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