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Eighth International Conference on the Arts in Society
2013-06-24 to 2013-06-26
Budapest, Hungary
The conference creates an intellectual platform to create an interdisciplinary conversation and serves as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world.

http://artsinsociety.com/the-conferenceexternal link

The First International Conference on the Arts and Humanities
2013-06-27 to 2013-06-30
Perugia, Umbria, Italy
“Bridges Across Culture”  is the First International Conference on Arts and Humanities to be held in Perugia, Italy. The “Bridges” conference provides an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. This conference will serve as a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

http://www.washjeff.edu/international-conference-arts-and-humanitiesexternal link

International Ceramics Festival
2013-06-28 to 2013-06-30
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Ceredigion, Wales (UK)

The festival is held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on the campus of Aberystwyth University on the mid-Wales coast. Since it began in 1987 the three-day festival has grown to become the UK’s leading ceramics event.

It offers teachers, students, ceramic artists, collectors, working potters and amateurs the chance to meet and study the work of distinguished, internationally known potters and ceramicists from Wales, the UK and around the world .

The Festival attracts about 1000 people who attend lectures, watch practical demonstrations and visit our special exhibitions over three days. Our international demonstrators show skills and techniques on our specially adapted stage and also have their own workspaces – enabling personal discussion about their work. The focus is both practical and inspirational – kilns are built, pots are made and fired.

http://www.internationalceramicsfestival.org/external link

ECAH 2013 - The European Conference on Arts and Humanities
2013-07-18 to 2013-07-21
Brighton, United Kingdom
The Inaugural European Conference on Arts and Humanities offers a true celebration of interdisciplinary study in a stimulating scholarly environment, and in the wonderful physical and cultural surroundings of the Southeast of England. This international research conference will bring together university scholars working throughout Europe and beyond to share ideas and forge working relationships with each other over a stimulating, challenging, and long weekend.

http://ecah.iafor.org/external link

Abersystwyth Musicfest
2013-07-27 to 2013-08-03
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Ceredigion, Wales (UK)
The spectacular coastline of Cardigan Bay in West Wales is a fine backdrop for this inspirational week of Living Music. Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s MusicFest is an enticing fusion of Music Festival and Summer School; of experience and learning; of performance and appreciation. The engagement of audience, student, and artist alike creates the unique community atmosphere of MusicFest – ‘refreshing, rewarding and thoroughly inspirational’.

http://www.abermusicfest.org/external link

EVA: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2013
2013-07-29 to 2013-07-31
London, United Kingdom
EVA London focuses on the development and application of visualisation technologies in art, music, dance, theatre and the sciences. Where those interested in new technologies can share experiences and network in a friendly, collaborative atmosphere.

http://www.eva-london.org/external link

The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791-1881
2013-09-04 to 2013-09-06
Exeter, United Kingdom
A three-day conference in English and French to be held in the University of Exeter, 4-6 September 2013. This conference provides an opportunity to analyse and reflect upon the role of the Paris Salon as an artistic and cultural event.

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/research/conferences/paris_salon/external link

Noises of Art
2013-09-04 to 2013-09-06
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
The conference addresses what is arguably the most prolific, varied, and groundbreaking period in the coming together, exchange, and mutual influence of visual art and sound-based practices (such as music and the spoken word). It aims to explore (principally) the visual artist’s  engagement with sound, noise, music, and text while at the same time recognizing that there is a traffic of musicians, sound artists, and text artists moving in the opposite direction, who aspire to cultivate visual analogues for their work. Thus, the conference is situated at the intersection of several movements that are converging upon a point of visual-audio synthesis and exchange.

http://noisesofart.weebly.com/external link

2nd International Contact Rock Art Symposium
2013-09-13 to 2013-09-15
Darwin

Contributors have been invited based on their experience researching and writing about contact rock art in their respective countries and also for their interest in moving contact rock art research away from purely description-based studies towards a more theoretically-grounded area of specialisation within rock art studies.

Our aims are:

  1. To share international perspectives on rock art depicting/representing contact between different cultural groups.
  2. To explore different approaches to the interpretation of contact rock art.
  3. To highlight similarities, differences and themes in the nature of representing ‘contact’ in different parts of the world and at different times.
  4. To discuss options for promoting the study and protection of contact rock art globally.

This symposium will include a field trip for presenters to meet local Aboriginal Traditional Owners and visit important contact rock art sites in Kakadu National Park and western Arnhem Land.

http://rsh.anu.edu.au/rockart/index.php/conferences/2nd-international-contact-rock-art-symposiumexternal link

4th Global Conference: Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice
2013-09-17 to 2013-09-19
Oxford, United Kingdom
Theatre and the many varied expressions of performance practice are by their nature inter-disciplinary forms of art. They draw ideas and symbolisms from diverse theoretical and creative fields of humanities, making historical references and links, presenting social relations, putting forward great ideas and dilemmas of the mind, highlighting aspects of the human personality and employing all existing art-forms in order to create a performance as a whole. Performance practice, whether in a theatrical space, site-specific space, or as a street or public performance of any nature, can be examined from the artistic point of view, but also from a cultural, a sociological, a historical, a psychological, a semiological, an anthropological, as well as from an educational perspective. The term “performance practice” refers to the interface within which the work of the director, performer, movement director and choreographer, scenographer (set and costume designer), musical director, composer, lighting designer and sound designer meet. It also includes all aspects and issues involving the creative process, from the initial concept to the final realization and presentation to an audience.

The aim of this conference is to develop discussion with a focus on the visual aspects of performance brought up by visual and spatial artists and researchers in various performance disciplines and practices.

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/call-for-papers/external link

2nd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel
2013-09-23 to 2013-09-25
Oxford, United Kingdom
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”(Alan Moore, V for Vendetta)

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues in and around the production, creation and reading of all forms of comics and graphic novels. Taken as a form of pictographic narrative it has been with us since the first cave paintings and even in the 21st century remains a hugely popular, vibrant and culturally relevant means of communication whether expressed as sequential art, graphic literature, bandes dessinees, tebeos, fumetti, manga, manhwa, komiks, strips, historietas, quadrinhos, beeldverhalen, or just plain old comics. (as noted by Paul Gravett)

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/call-for-papers/external link

Fourth International Conference on the Image
2013-10-18 to 2013-10-19
Chicago , IL, United States of America
The conference explores the nature and function of images and image making, welcoming academics and practitioners from the arts, communications, film, cognitive science, design, cultural studies, education, computer science and other areas.

http://ontheimage.com/the-conferenceexternal link

ARCHTHEO '13: Theory of Architecture Conference III on Aesthetic Autonomy & Social Function
2013-12-04 to 2013-12-06
Istanbul, Turkey
The full papers are going to be published in the proceedings book with an ISBN number. All presentations will be broadcasted live on the web page of the conference and available on Youtube afterwards.

http://www.archtheoconference.net/external link

Art ¦ Basel ¦ Miami Beach
2013-12-05 to 2013-12-08
Miami Beach Convention Center Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Welcome to the favorite winter meeting place for the international art world. At the nexus of North America and Latin America, this Art Basel show presents premier artwork from across the globe. Over 250 of the world's leading galleries participate, drawing over 50,000 visitors each year.
With miles of sandy beaches dotted with classic Art Deco architecture, world-class art museums, and a glittering nightlife, Miami Beach ranks among America's most iconic cities. During Art Basel, it embraces the artworld with special exhibitions at museums and galleries across the city, transforming the week into a dense and dynamic cultural event.

https://www.artbasel.com/en/Miami-Beachmibeach.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/external link

17th Triennial Conference in Melbourne
2014-09-15 to 2014-09-19
Melbourne, Australia
The conference theme, “Building Strong Culture through Conservation” will focus on how the conservation of cultural heritage can help build strong culture for the benefit of society. By preserving cultural materials essential to the continuation of collective memory, conservation can help rebuild communities which have been damaged through war, natural disaster, or displacement, as well as supporting a sense of identity within thriving communities. The conference will explore how cross-cultural partnerships, new technologies, knowledge transmission, effective advocacy, and local cultural centres can contribute to the building of strong culture through conservation. Further, the conference will investigate strategies that address conservation needs in post-trauma recovery situations, as well as those of regional communities and communities who identity is not dominant within a broader culture.

http://www.icom-cc.org/254/triennial-conferences/17th-triennial-conference,-melbourne,-australia/#.URnn5PKoCLxexternal link