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ACUADS\/DDCA 2021 Conference
New Networks<\/h2>\n

In response to COVID-19 government restrictions, the conference was a hybrid event held in October.<\/p>\n

Thursday 28th\u00a0October 2021
Friday 29th\u00a0<\/sup>October 2021<\/p>\n

Papers & keynote presentations: online (Microsoft Teams)
Roundtable and networking discussions<\/p>\n

Conference contact<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>admin@.acuads.com.au<\/p>\n

The complete conference schedule including speakers, abstracts and presentations can be accessed via the 2021 ACUADS\/DDCA Conference website: https:\/\/acuads2021.com.au\/.<\/p>\n

All recordings of the conference are available here: https:\/\/acuads2021.com.au\/schedule\/.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Call for papers<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The 2021 ACUADS Conference, developed in partnership with the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA), explores the theme of networks to consider their possibilities in response to the challenges and future agendas of the Tertiary Art, Design and Creative Arts sector.<\/p>\n

The origins of network theory can be traced back to the Seven Bridges of K\u00f6nigsberg, a famous problem in Western mathematics. Resolved by Leonard Euler in 1736, the topography of the city of K\u00f6nigsberg, Russia, included the Pregel River, two large islands and seven bridges. The challenge was to devise a walk through the city that would cross each bridge only once. Euler demonstrated this to be impossible; and in the process of developing his proof, new techniques for the analysis of the city\u2019s \u2018network\u2019 were established.<\/p>\n

Today, mapping pathways through urban space has taken on new meaning. With the arrival of COVID, we think of networks in terms of vectors, tracing, upstream and downstream flows; patterns of concern as well as frameworks that protect. COVID also demonstrates the raw power of networks. As Bruno Latour suggests: \u2018we must not think of the personal and the collective as two distinct levels. The big climate questions can make individuals feel small and impotent. But the virus gives us a lesson. If you spread from one mouth to another, you can viralise the world very fast. That knowledge can re-empower us.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the same time as viral threats, there is arguably a global ‘attack’ on the Arts as a soft target during crisis, scarcity and shifting priorities. New ways to survive and indeed thrive are needed.\u00a0Strengthening connection and collaboration \u2013\u00a0forming networks \u2013\u00a0in response to these challenges has perhaps never been more important. Even, as Rosi Braidotti proposes, the need to think far beyond Euler\u2019s approach to problem solving and our usual conceptual parameters: posthuman<\/em> paradigms are required to address the social, technological, viral and ecological issues of our times.<\/p>\n

Presentations are invited that respond to the following prompts and related topics:<\/p>\n

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  • Ecosystems & posthuman networks:<\/strong> learning from the more than human, particularly in response to climate change, has never been more urgent. How is the posthuman addressed by art & design schools?<\/li>\n
  • Decentring networks:<\/strong> action on our national reconciliation agendas is a critical priority for the Higher Education sector. How can art and design recognise and learn from alternative bodies of knowledge and contribute to reconciliation?<\/li>\n
  • Online work and resilience:<\/strong> for many, teaching online has changed the scope of our work as educators. The need to reconnect individual and community wellbeing has also been acute. What have we learnt from online and \u2018blended\u2019 modes of delivery? In the workplace as well as at home, how do we move from hyper-individualism in our approach to resilience, care and recovery?<\/li>\n
  • Local & global COVID networks:<\/strong> locally, the HE sector has been radically re-shaped, not just by COVID, but also the Jobs Ready Graduates bill. Is there a need to also re-shape how we deliver programs and consider IP, moving beyond insular \/ regional divides through new approaches to cross-institutional models? Internationally, the pandemic has been experienced in very different ways, depending not just on nationality but also race, gender, age and other factors. After the prolonged absence of global mobility, what modes of international collaboration and connection are possible or needed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Contributions from academics, postgraduate students, designers and artists that consider Networks in the context of contemporary art and design practice, including pedagogy, are welcomed.<\/p>\n

    In recognition of diverse forms of knowledge, presentation formats may include artist talks, performance, creative works etc as well as academic papers.<\/p>\n

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    Note: The standard delivery time of 2021 ACUADS Conference presentations has been reduced to account for the wellbeing of session participants. Presentations will be timed to 15 minutes (2000 words for an academic paper).<\/p>\n

    Please note the call out for presentation abstracts or expressions of interest is now closed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Applications will be peer reviewed by the Selection Committee and responses provided by Friday 3rd <\/sup>September. All academic papers will undergo a double blind peer-review process after the conference event, for publication through the ACUADS website, unless authors nominate to not have their papers put through this process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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