My session, "SoCo: Southern Contemporary, Now", is taken from an article in e-flux journal #12 where Hal Foster of Princeton transcribed excerpts of replies he had received to the question "What does Contemporary mean?" in an earlier October issue. I want(ed) to explore what exactly contemporary also meant in the South, not only in the mediums of painting and sculpture, but film, New Media, and particularly how artists have drawn intensely from the internet and the over-saturation of imagery from that.
I will be receiving, reviewing, and selecting papers from graduate students and professors from around the U.S. -- primarily the South, I'm sure, as my panel is most concerned with the region -- and then presenting the papers at the conference during Halloween weekend.
To say I am honored -- excited more so -- to be given this privilege is an understatement (on both accounts). I think it is only the beginning of asserting myself as a professional and art historian of modern and contemporary art, and not limited to just the South. To be holding a panel, as some of my past professors are this year, and held in the same equivalence as them, is a really grand feeling.
In addition, I am currently preparing an essay about Milton Babbitt, his scores, and young artists comparable to him practicing in Mississippi, today. The second installment of "Are all Memes Created Equal" is also forthcoming, with the next vignette highlighting artists who incorporate memes into their work, and how memes derive due to geography.
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