Exploded View: Expansion, Inquiry and Curiosity
Using the concept of ‘Exploded View’, we invite you to reimagine the broad spectrum of research undertaken across Communication and Arts. We challenge you to reposition and reframe your topic or area of expertise as a complex, three-dimensional mechanism. Now, explode that view. What do you see? How will you explain the role each part plays to make a functioning whole? And most importantly: who needs to know and why does it matter?
This year’s Work-in-Progress conference is all about crossing disciplinary boundaries and disrupting the status quo; deconstructing and reconfiguring; scaling up (or down), expanding or consolidating. It’s about switching point-of-view: a new angle, a sharper lens, a crystalline filter; on a micro or macro level. It’s about championing the critical work we, as artists and communicators, do, every day; with passion, with purpose, with precision – often without fancy tools or instruction manuals.
As artists and communicators, our core instruments are curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. Now’s the time to showcase your work-in-progress; to think outside the box, then explode the box. We invite abstracts both traditionally academic and in creative formats, and as highlighted in the conference title, we welcome works in progress.
Conference Dates: Wednesday 13 November –Thursday 14 November
Venue: Global Change Institute (GCI) Atrium
Register to attend: Registrations open October 2024, full program will also be published at this time.
Hosted by: School of Communication and Arts
Enquiries: l.enright@uq.edu.au
Call for Papers
The Call For Papers is open from 31 July to 13 September, inviting abstracts from across all Communications and Arts disciplines at UQ and beyond. Potential topics and areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Temporality: time and memory, impermanence, separation, trauma, absence.
- Technologies: digital cultures, digital storytelling, AI, ethics and tech disruption.
- Taboos: myths, conspiracies, mis/disinformation, political debate and propaganda
- Humanities: philosophy of mind and body, autonomy, freedom, creativity, sexuality.
- Origins: birth and death, aging, life cycles, ancestries, heritage, remembered history.
- Journeys: through different real or imagined environments, crossing boundaries and thresholds, intersections and pathways, beginnings and endings.
- Coming of age: unconscious or conscious rituals, initiations and practices, adulthood versus childhood, adolescence, maturing, evolving and developing.
- Transitions: animism and the supernatural, the material and the spiritual, being on the brink, verging on the new, religious ceremonies and cultural or traditional customs.
- Progressions: voyages through life including careers, religions, relationships and roles, ways of seeing and being in the world.
- Discoveries: in science, technology, literature, health, business and creative arts.
- Schisms: loss of self or identity, liminal spaces, lack of agency, appropriation.
- Integration: Sense of belonging, returning, migration, unification or othering.
- Triggers: pivotal moments, cultural shifts, significant events, catalysts for change.
- Responses: to shifts in the natural environment or climate, global or local campaigns.
Abstract/Poster Presentation Submission Details
Submit by: 13 September 2024 to l.enright@uq.edu.au
Length: 200 words (or less)
Enquiries: l.enright@uq.edu.au