European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies – (EAM)
“EUROPA ! EUROPA ?” Conference 29–31 May 2008 – University of Ghent, Belgium
At the initiative of the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) was founded and has organized its first conference entitled “Europa! Europa?” in Ghent at the end of May 2008. For this purpose a call was announced for multidisciplinary panels, consisting of representatives of three different disciplines plus one moderator.
A ViennAvant team consisting of Thomas Eder (Literature), Gabriele Jutz (Film Studies) and Bernhard Steger and Rudi Kohoutek (Architecture) submitted the project “Die Verbesserung von Mitteleuropa aus dem Fundus lokaler Traditionen. Nachkriegsavantgarden in Wien 1945–1970” [Utilizing the pool of local traditions for the rehabilitation of Central Europe. Post-war avant-gardes in Vienna 1945–1970], which was selected for the conference in the face of a strong competition.
Foto © Gunther Martens
The project entailed the presentation of the following papers:
– Thomas Eder (University of Vienna): “grauen, namloses grauen”. Pragmatische Umwertung des Vorhandenen in den Arbeiten der Wiener Gruppe [“horror. nameless horror”. A pragmatic revaluation of the given in the works of the Wiener Gruppe.]
– Gabriele Jutz (University of Applied Arts Vienna): Die Politik des Dialekts in der österreichischen Filmavantgarde [The politics of dialect in Austria’s film avant-garde].
– Rudolf Kohoutek / Bernhard Steger (Vienna University of Technology): Wiener Architektur 1955–1970: Avantgarde wider Willen, aber erst recht [Viennese Architecture 1955–1970. A reluctant, but nonetheless determined avant-garde].
– Wolfgang Müller-Funk was the panel moderator.
The presentation of the group met with great interest.
“High & Low” Konferenz 9. – 11. September 2010 – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / Polen.
Gabriele Jutz of viennAvant attended this second EAM-conference again, this time in the course of a tree hour’s session “Avant-garde-Literature and –Film in central-european context”.
Subject of the talk of Gabriele Jutz was “Applications of László Moholy-Nagy’s Production-Reproduction in Film und Media Art”
‘Material Meanings’ Konferenz 7. -9. September 2012 – University of Kent
David Ayers, Professor for Modernism and Critical Theory, University of Kent ist preparing this third biennal conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM).
Conference Topic: ‘Material Meanings’
This conference investigates the avant-garde’s reconfiguration of matter and materials in the quest to generate new meanings and effects.
Its particular focus will be the manner in which different artistic disciplines adopt strategies, theories and techniques from each other, and how they translate, transform and integrate conceptions and modes of expression from other sign systems.
Call for Papers
Proposals are invited for contributions which deal with any of the following: the interference or conflict of artistic disciplines; the interaction of disciplines in artistic movements; the combination of media in single artworks or artistic practices; the treatment of sign as matter and matter as sign; the materiality of art and the art of materiality; art and material environment; the world as matter and meaning; text as thing, things as texts; the transfiguration of traditional or found materials; the material effectivity of the avant-garde; the relationship between manifestos and art; technology and the transformation of meaning; the incorporation of the foreign or extraneous.
We welcome contributions across all areas of avant-garde activity: art, literature, music, architecture, film, artistic and social movements, lifestyle, television, fashion, drama, performance, activism, design and technology. We especially welcome contributions which explore the combination of different media or practices within a single work or within a given environment.
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