The theme of the conference is 'Interventions in the Public Domain'.
Art and Design schools are in the business of educating visual artists to interact within the public domain, and it is this interaction which creates the cultural environment in which we live. Intervention can take a number of forms, and it is often regarded as a controversial activity. For this conference a number of sub-themes have been identified as starting points for discussion around how this interaction should or does takes place. These themes are; the critical discourse associated with the production of public art, the redesign of art and design theory and practice, the role of documentary and narrative, and the issues associated with the refereeing of visual practice.
Proposals are invited which respond to these sub-themes, and which can explore, engage with and/or challenge the conference theme.
- Public Art: Towards a Critical Discourse
- Sustainability, Design, Education and Transformation
- Documentary and Narrative
- Theory for Practice
- Refereeing the Visual
Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts are now closed. Full papers will be submitted by 3 July.
Preparation of Papers
Papers should not be more than 3000 words.
When preparing papers please take account of the following requirements:
- References and acknowledgements must be included
- Authors' biographical details and addresses, including institutional affiliation
- All contributions should be written in English
- Text size 11 point with headings in capitals
- Use single quotes, double within quotes
- Authors' names & organisations should appear on the first page of the paper only
Illustrations
- These should not be inserted in the text
- All photographs, diagrams an illustrations should be referred to as 'figures' and numbered in sequence with Arabic numbers (eg. 'Figure 2')
- The position of each illustration should be indicated in the text
- A list of captions for the figures should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper
- All photographs, diagrams and illustrations should be emailed in separate documents in jpg format. Each image file should be less than 100k in size
References
- Should be assembled using the Havard system (eg. Smith and Brown,2000)
- References by the same author should be differentiated by the suffices (a) (b) etc.
- References should be listed in full at the end of the paper
- Article or paper titles shown in single quotes
- Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright clearance for all materials
Refereeing Guidelines for Conference Papers
All papers are read first by the Conference convenor, then sent to two referees (‘blind’ peer reviews), who will complete a referee report and make suggestions regarding suitability for the conference publication, editing, reworking or development of the paper. The recommendations will be forwarded to the writer for attention before the paper is finally accepted for the conference publication.To facilitate ‘blind’ reviewing, authors must supply a cover sheet with name of paper, name of author, contact details in full and word length.
The name of the author must be removed from the paper itself.
PLEASE NOTE: The length of presentation or summary for each paper will be 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of questions/discussions. The full paper will be published after the conference in the usual way in an online publication on the ACUADS website.