February 22–25, 2012, Los Angeles Convention Center
Registration opens in early October 2011
The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts.
Conference highlights will include:
Over two hundred sessions exploring art history and visual culture from ancient times to the present
The twelfth annual Distinguished Scholar Session honoring Rosalind Krauss
An array of career development workshops, mentoring opportunities, and prospects for job interviews with colleges, universities, and museums
A Book and Trade Fair, which gathers more than 130 publishers of art books, journals, and magazines; manufacturers and distributors of materials for artists; and providers of digital images and resources, among other companies and organizations
The presentation of the annual Awards for Distinction to prominent artists, scholars, teachers, authors, and curators (recipients announced January 2012)
A wealth of special tours, receptions, open houses, exhibitions, and other events throughout southern California
Speakers and panelists will present their recent artistic projects and art-historical research, while others will talk about relevant issues in pedagogy, technology, publishing, and the academic workforce. Historical and contemporary art in Los Angeles will be another important focus. Notable session titles include:
Pacific Standard Time and Chicano Art: A New Los Angeles Art History?
Urbanization and Contemporary Art in Asia
New Approaches to Post-Renaissance Florence, ca. 1600–1743
Theory, Method, and the Future of Precolumbian Art
Design Education 2.0: Teaching in a Techno-Cultural Reality
Punk Rock and Contemporary Art on the West Coast
Flying Solo: The Opportunities and Challenges Presented to the Solitary Art Historian in a Small College
**Japan Art History Forum
Commensurable Distinctions: Japanese Art History and Its Others
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine
Pictorial Photography and the “Japanese Aesthetic"
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara University
Collage Modernity: Women, Machines, and Surrealism in the Paintings of Koga Harue
Chinghsin Wu, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Picasso as the Other: First “Global” Polemics of a Postwar Ceramic/Painting Dichotomy
Yasuko Tsuchikane, Parsons The New School for Design
The Struggle for a Page in Art History: The Global and National Ambitions of Japanese Contemporary Artists from the 1990s
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po
Discussant: Miya Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
Other papers and panels:
**Happenings: Transnational, Transdisciplinary
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Yayoi Kusama’s Psychedelic Happenings: Sexual Revolution and Brain Change
Midori Yamamura, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Another Dimension of Happenings in 1960s Japan: The Play’s Voyages into Landscape
Reiko Tomii, independent scholar
**Activating History, Activating Asia: East Asian Art Practice
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
The Gendered Politics of Representation: The Rise and Fall of Young Women’s Photography in Nineties Japan
Thomas O'Leary, University of California
**Pop and Politics, Part I
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tokyo as a Cold War Site: Jasper Johns’s Visit in 1964
Hiroko Ikegami, Kobe University
**Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization
Asian American Women Artists: A Postmodern Perspective
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
The Art of Being Asian: Art and Politics of Asian American Women Artists Now
Linda Inson Choy, independent curator
**ARTspace
Out of Rubble
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Representing the Unrepresentable: The Photography of Nuclear Affliction in Postwar Japan
Claude Baillargeon, Oakland University
**Gendering the Posthuman
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beautiful Vision for the Twenty-First Century: Mariko Mori’s Capsule Aesthetic
Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon
**The 1930s
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Isamu Noguchi, Social Activism, and the Reinvention of Sculptural Practice
Amy Lyford, Occidental College
**Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Civilization and Its Others in Nineteenth-Century Art, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Portable Culture: The Japanese Album as a Model for Civilization in 1860s France
Emily Brink, Stanford University
Envisioning a Civilized Nation: The Claims of Photography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Geo-Encyclopedias
Gyewon Kim, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture
Read the full press release. For more information about the 2012 Annual Conference, please write to Member Services or call 212-691-1051, ext. 1.
