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CAA 106th Annual Conference, New York, February 21-24, 2018
LA Convention Center
February 21–24, 2018
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Wednesday
02/21/2018
8:30am
“Against Algorithms (Or the Arts of Resistance in the Age of Quantification)”
Room 409A
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part I”
Room 503
“Theorizing Drawing: The Gap between Historical Accounts and Studio Practice”
Room 406A
“Utopianism and Dystopianism in Soviet and Eastern European Art” (Society of Historians of East European Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture SHERA)
Room 501A
10:30am
“A Public Art Primer: Expanding Form and Content”
Room 506
“Aesthetics and Control: Artists Respond to the Surveillance Apparatus”
Room 409A
“Alternative Visions: The Photograph, Self-Representation, and Fact in Contemporary Art of the United States”
Room 505
“Art/Data”
Room 402B
“Disability Aesthetics and Choreopolitics”
Room 404B
“No Experiments: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–89”
Room 410
“Regionalism in the Global Era”
Room 405
“Socialist Realism Reconsidered: New Readings of Russian Cultural Policy 1920–1930s”
Room 501A
2:00PM
“Alternative Animation: Inscriptions, Pedestals, and Object Caches in Premodern Japanese Buddhist Images” (Japan Art History Forum JAHF)
Room 407
“Circumventing Censorship in Global Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”
Room 501B
“Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art”
Room 408A
“Locating LeWitt: Issues of Site, Space, and Movement”
Room 409A
“Reconsidering Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”
Room 403B
4:00PM
“Group Encounters: Rethinking the Social in and through Performance”
Room 505
“Icons of the Midwest: Cavaliere d’Arpino’s ‘Perseus Rescuing Andromeda’ at the Saint Louis Art Museum” (Midwest Art History Society MAHS)
Room 406B
“Imagining Constructivism’s Constellations: Alternative Histories of Cold War Cultural Production”
Room 501A
“New Approaches to Contemporary Asian Art”
Room 410
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Activist Art Practices in Institutions”
Room 405
“British Abstraction after World War II”
Room 407
“Craft and Resistance”
Room 408B
“Envisioning Time in Early Modern China”
Room 501C
“How Many Ways to Miss the Mark? Lucio Fontana between Formalism and Historicity “
Room 409A
“Learning from Elsewhere: Critical Arts Pedagogies in the University”
Room 406A
“The Image of the American Indian in Nineteenth-Century Britain: New Critical Perspectives” (Historians of British Art HBA)
Room 506
10:30am
“(Un)Common Intent: Performance Scores as Contractual Exchange”
Room 501A
“Collaborating with Communities”
Room 405
“International Art Exhibitions of the 1980s: The Festivals of India”
Room 402A
“Pop Art and Class, Part I”
Room 409A
Resistance, Resilience, and Refuge: Sustaining a Contemporary Creative Practice
Room 515B
2:00PM
“’68 and After: Art and Political Engagement in Europe” (European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum EPCAF)
Room 409A
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part I”
Room 407
“Carlo Borromeo and the Arts”
Room 404A
“My Hands are (Un)tied: Craft in an Anxiety Age”
Room 408B
“Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging”
Room 408A
4:00PM
“#Resistance: Performing Bodies and the State”
Room 501A
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part II”
Room 407
“Save Our Children! That Sweet, Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face”
Room 405
“The Audience as Producer, 1750 – 1900”
Room 404B
6:00PM
“Let’s Dance, But Don’t Call Me Baby: Dialogue, Empathy, and Inclusion in the Classroom and Beyond” (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education FATE)
Room 409A
“Teaching and Writing the Art Histories of Latin American Los Angeles” (Art Historians of Southern California AHSC)
Room 403B
Friday
02/23/2018
8:30am
“Alt-Aesthetics: The Alt-Right and the New Turn in Appropriation”
Room 404B
“Autonomy and the 1960s”
Room 409B
“Cold War Art Archives, Collections, and Exhibitions: Starting from Los Angeles”
Room 402B
“Design and Neoliberalism: The Economics and Politics of “Total Design” across the Disciplines” (Design Studies Forum DSF)
Room 402A
“Pop Art and Class, Part II”
Room 501B
“Reorganizing the Art World: Postwar and Contemporary Collectives in Asia”
Room 501C
“Warp, Weft, World: Postwar Textiles and Transcultural Form”
Room 408B
10:30am
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy, Part I: Politics and Museums”
Room 503
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part II”
Room 407
“Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design Histories” (Design History Society)
Room 402A
“Methodologies for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias “
Room 501C
“Recipes for Revolution from Feminist Artists of Color” (Women’s Caucus for Art WCA)
Room 501B
2:00PM
“Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s”
Room 409B
“Women Artists, Social Issues, and the Resistance” (Coalition of Women in the Arts Organizations CWAO)
Room 501B
4:00PM
“‘Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke’ Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and ‘Negative’ Imagery”
Room 408A
“Agnotology of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art”
Room 409B
“Art and Reason: Art’s Possible Worlds”
Room 405
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy Part II: Artists”
Room 503
“Art in the Age of Global Martial Law”
Room 406B
“Feminist Art in Response to the State” (The Feminist Art Project TFAP)
Room 404A
“Roundtable: Digital Publishing, Dissent, and Socially Engaged Art History”
Room 501C
“Sites of Micro-Community” (Society of Contemporary Art Historians SCAH)
Room 404B
“Taking it to the Streets: The Visual and Material Culture of Women’s Marches” (Committee on Women in the Arts)
Room 501B
Saturday
02/24/2018
8:30am
“Abstraction in Africa: Origins, Meaning, Function” (Arts Council of the African Studies Association ACASA)
Room 409A
“Artistic Practice in a Posthuman World”
Room 406A
“Evasive Articulations in the Age of ‘Fake News’: Thinking About the Relationship Between Art and Truth During the Trump Era”
Room 503
“Politics and Power in the Americas: Transhistorical Perspectives”
Room 405
10:30am
“Recuperation”
Room 406A
“What Do We Do Now? Art and Politics circa 1970 and Now”
Room 503
2:00PM
“Histories of Fake News”
Room 503
“Pop América: Contesting Freedom, 1965–75”
Room 404B
4:00PM
“Disappointment and Representation”
Room 406A
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