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Elina Cerla's article "The Anthropocentric and the Anthropocene" in TRACT - The magazine of The Representational Art Conference - TRAC2019

The Anthropocentric and the Anthropocene – by Elina Cerla Imagine the remains of a quenched fire in a tiny village bar filled with a few lone souls who, before they brace the closing-time cold, await Valuska. The image is in black and white. “Valuska. Come on. Show us.” Valuska appears and positions one man in the centre of the room just cleared of tab...

Big News! Z. S. Liang is speaking about "My Imagination on the Native Trails" at TRAC 2019.
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Last chance to submit a paper to The Representational Art Conference 2019!

Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED until February 28th!
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Regina Jacobson's "The Queen's Dominion"

Second Sight – Regina Jacobson’s “The Queen’s Dominion” There are precious few things I have held onto from childhood, but I still own a set of Child-Craft Encyclopedias. As a post-World War II Baby Boomer I grew up watching night-time, situational family television shows in the den with my sister where idealized, middle-class white families mastered the...

The Representational Art Conference 2019 - FINAL call for papers!
Send your abstract in before February 15th!

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Call for Papers TRAC provides a platform for discussion. It does not aspire to establish a single monolithic aesthetic for representational art but to identify commonalities, to help to understand the unique possibilities of representational art, and perhaps provide some illumination about future directions. This y...

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Here's the second call for papers for The Representational Art Conference 2019.
IMAGINE
A CLU Arts Initiative.

We invite abstract submissions on a range of topics related to the imagination, such as:

Can artists be both representational and imaginative?
What is the relationship between 21st-century imaginative realism and movies?
How can imagination be a vehicle of truth in art?
Esoteric symbolism and imagination
Allegory and representational art
Is imagination simply a mode of subjective expression or can it be a guide to the real?
Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology
Metaphor and imagination
How is imagination different from fantasy?
What is the relationship between 21st Century representational art and the past?
Pop-surrealism and lowbrow imagination
How is imagination different from creativity?
Critical approaches to science fiction and fantasy art and artists
What is the role of imagination in religious art?
Imagination and the atelier
What are the respective roles of imagination and emotion in art?
Which 21st-century artists have best used the constructive role of imagination in art?
What is the connection between imagination and symbolism in art?
Left brain/right brain: do artists need both?
What are the connections between realism, idealism and imagination in art?
The PreRaphaelite imagination and 21st Century representation
The artist’s eye: how does imagination aid artistic vision?
How does imagination aid the perception of beauty?

Call for Papers TRAC provides a platform for discussion. It does not aspire to establish a single monolithic aesthetic for representational art but to identify commonalities, to help to understand the unique possibilities of representational art, and perhaps provide some illumination about future directions. This y...

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Tim Jenison The subject of the Penn and Teller 2014 documentary Tim’s Vermeer, Tim Jenison is the inventor/entrepreneur behind NewTek, a company working in various fields of computer graphics, most notably the 3D-modeling software LightWave 3D.

Here's why Lori Escalera comes to TRAC.
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The Value of Community at TRAC – by Lori Escalera We all have musings about what artists look like, originating from our deepest heartfelt desires and thoughts. In our imaginations, we conjure, formulate, compute and eventually reduce a distilled idea of what an artist “is.” This does not mean that we possess the real truth of what an artist ac...

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