Call for Papers


SMT 4
Materiality of Drawing/Thinking
The value of slow arrival: bodily gesture | spatial mode | response time

This is a call for contributions on the materiality of drawing. Submissions may take the form of visual or moving image texts, written articles or combination texts with words and images exploring the making and the interpretation of drawings and in particular, the materiality of the drawing process as a conceptual and physical activity.

The practice of drawing and the study of drawing practice are particularly interesting at present in terms of rapidly changing professional methods, digital and technological developments and the challenges of practice-led research investigations. SMT is interested in theoretical, professional and pedagogic approaches that explore and explain the wide variety of drawing practices in art, design and other contexts. It is a fascinating and important contemporary issue for artists and theorists. Contributions may challenge or refocus current ideas on drawing as perception; the eloquence of cumulative resolution; evolutionary coherence; meaning and interpretation; notions of dexterity; the value of attentiveness; ambiguity; progressive logic and sustained uncertainty in relation to drawing as a material practice.
  • Contributions accepted in English only.
  • Recommended word length 2000-5000 words.
  • NEW EXTENSION to the submission deadline! Contributions may now be submitted up to June 10th 2010.
  • All contributions will be refereed prior to acceptance for publication.
  • NEW PUBLICATION TIMELINE: Contributions accepted up to June 10th 2010; reviewing and notification through to end of July 2010; online publication date August 2010.
    SMT is open to innovative format options. We would like to have the opportunity to work with submissions using images in a positive, active, discursive manner and to assist artists and researchers to explore a strongly visual form of argumentation.



    Drawing Out 2010 conference site

    http://www.drawingout.com.au/


    SMT
    Open Call for Contributions

    This is an open call for ideas, contributions and thematic suggestions from all artists, designers and researchers interested in the materiality of creative practice. Design and creative technologies, creative and cultural industries and artistic practices are all characterised by the significance of material considerations in the emergent processes of experimentation, development, application and production. Research in these areas is usually practice-led and the growth of postgraduate courses worldwide has led to an exciting new wave of contemporary academic interest in research orientations and approaches. In particular, the advancement of practice-led design research is dependent on a shared understanding of the scope and significance of diverse approaches currently being differentiated and discussed in the academic discourses of a variety of fields and disciplines. This work on new methodological perspectives and the material thinking that is characteristic of much design, technological and creative/artistic production will inevitably contribute to the advancement of art and design disciplines, improved practices at postgraduate level and overall, a robust research discipline.

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