World-making and World Art
May 9-10, 10am-5pm, Berkeley Art Museum Theater, free admission
Sponsored by the Arts Research Center.
WEBSITE: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/events.html#9

This conference explores practices of visual and aural culture in painting, photography,
film, architecture, performance, music, and new media as world-making—how they
create human worlds of sensation, knowledge, and action. The traditions addressed
range from 19th-century Europe and 20th-century America to the medieval Islamic
world, the transnational Caribbean, and contemporary India. Speakers aim to confront
theories of world-making with the diversity of world art traditions. It seems obvious that
art makes many different worlds. How do they interrelate and change? Are interpre-
tations limited to individual cultures, or do they offer resources for comparisons among
traditions? What world is involved in "world art"?