by Jon Lackman | 28 November 2008 | Conferences
The 2009 CAA conference in Los Angeles now has sessions and individual paper titles listed on its website. A few highlights:
“The Disciplined Body and Rational Architecture: The Foro Mussolini in Rome as the Setting for Performative Ritual of Synchronized Gymnastics”
“Statelessness: Gregor Schneider’s Weisse Folter, Clean Torture, and Guantánamo Bay”
“Riding the Rails of the Tenure Track”
“White Out: Extraordinary Rendition as Metaphor for Assimilation”
“What’s Eating You? The Graphic Language of the Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1″
“Where’s the (Brotherly) Love? Or, a Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Pro Bono”
“No Institutional Affiliation? No Problem! Materials and Services for Independent Fine Artists in Public Libraries”
“USCO: Getting Out of Your Mind to Use Your Head”
“Persuading with the Unseen? “Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung”, Photography, and German Communism’s Iconophobia”
“Tangled [Int|T]angibles: Code as Thing and Idea”
“Invisible Intimacies and Cold Burn: Haptic Migrations in 3D Tele-Immersion Choreography”
“Making Love Not War: The Iconography of the Cockfight in Medieval Egypt”
“Madness and Ecstasy in Muslim Menswear: Gender and Self-Expression”
“Of Beardless Youths, Courtesans, and Voyeurs: Modern Persian Erotica in the Kinsey Institute”
“Take It to the Air: Radio as Public Art”
“The Power of Instant Communities: MySpace and Facebook as Activist Centers”
“Adopting Identity: Afterlife Personae in Second-Third-Century Rome”
“Second-Life Dumpster”
“MyFrienemies.com: Anti-Social Networking”
“Rembrandt and the Art of Others: Why Is It So Essential That We Contextualize Rembrandt’s Art?”
“The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men”
“From Bust to Bone: Making and Seeing Faces in Art and Plastic Surgery”
“Got Tickets? To the Gun Show!”
“Fiction; or, Will the Real Real Please Stand Up?”
“Devotion and Veneration: Chicano Lowrider Processions and Audience Interaction”
“Jean Epstein’s Aesthetics and “The Normal Subconscious”: The Generative Potential of Chronic Intellectual Fatigue”
“Why N’Art Ain’t Art: Critically Thinking Critical Theory”
“The Impossibility of Neutrality”
“Make It Fucked Up (An Object-Maker’s Ode to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)”
“Remove My Heart and Bury It in Your Choir: Body Parts and the Politics of Portraiture”
“Natural Attacks? The Politics of Lightning and the French Revolution”
“Destructive Salvation: Max Ernst’s Microbes and the Politics of the Atom”
“AntiGyne: Biotechnology and the Dream of Birth without Women”
“Beautiful Hermaphrodite”
“In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art”
“But Is It Synesthesia?”
“Faggotstitch”
“Virtus and the Virtuous Breast”
“Breasts and Eggs for Breakfast: A Surrealist Farm”
