Call for papers--Symposium on modern materials and media

Call for Papers and Posters

"The Shock of the New: Modern Materials, Media and Methods"
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne, Australia
8-10 February 2017

The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials
(AICCM) Objects and Electron Special Interest Groups will host this
symposium on the theme The Shock of the New: Modern Materials, Media
and Methods, encompassing the following areas of research and
enquiry:

    Media art
    Contemporary art
    Digital collections
    Modern materials
    New or innovative use of conservation materials or practice

The program is expected to consist of two days of presentations and
one day of workshops.

The organising committee now welcomes abstracts of 250 words for
papers, lightning talks and posters.  Paper presentations should be
tailored to 20 minutes in length.  Presenters are encouraged to
submit papers for publication in the AICCM Bulletin.  Lightning
talks should be tailored to approximately 5 minutes in length with
an abstract for publishing in the symposium program.  Posters will
be hard copy format with abstracts published in the symposium
program.

To submit your abstract, send it to kpalmer<-at->museum<.>vic<.>gov<.>au by
close of business on Friday 28 October 2016.

Convenors: Helen Privett, Somaya Langley, Stuart Fuller, Gerald
Preiss, Bronwyn Dunn, Di Whittle and Karina Palmer


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