Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East - intersections of transdisciplinary practice and understanding

1 to 3 November, 2011
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Website: http://crossingthelineconference.blogspot.com/

Contact name: Dr Irene Barberis

Conference Announcement / Call for papers

Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East
intersections of transdisciplinary practice and understanding

1 November 2011 to 3 November 2011
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East - intersections of
transdisciplinary practice and understanding will bring together
specialists from various fields of research and practices to
examine the role of drawing in the contemporary Middle East.
Drawing as medium, as a tool, as notation, performance, and as
a specific mode of thinking and imagining in the processes of
invention, production, reproduction and communication within
and across fields and disciplines: from art to science, from
technology to ideology and cultural practices.

The trans-disciplinary approach of the conference will highlight
the specificities, as well as the commonalities of the various
dimensions, fields, forms and uses of drawing, broadly defined
as the production and extension of lines in space, as the
creation of meaning by marking surfaces, as the creation and
fixation of visible paths that record and communicate patterns of
temporal-spatial experiences.

Keynote speakers are:

Professor Stephen Farthing, Roostein
Hopkins Chair of Drawing from the University of the Arts
London;
Mr. Nja Mahdaoui, leading artist and designer,Tunisia;

Dr irene Barberis, Founder and Director of the
Global Centre for Drawing, and Senior Academic in the School
of Art , RMIT University, Australia

Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima, Professor of Art History,
American University in Dubai

Conference themes:

Drawing as a transdisciplinary practice
Drawing as an intersection
Crossing the Line: hand and technology in a changing world
Drawing: a portrait and landscape-notations of our time.


This conference is a collaboration between The American
University in Dubai and RMIT University, Australia.


The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 15 August 2011.

Enquiries: irene.barberis@rmit.edu.au

Submit Abstract here

OCPMS: Conference List -
click on CTL2011 and on Submit Abstract (left, below Welcome)

http://crossingthelineconference.blogspot.com/

Sponsored by:

American University in Dubai
RMIT University, Melbourne