International Assembly on
“Art and Globalization”
Perspective and Achievement

January 16-17 2005

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Center for Artistics Studies and Researches of the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance in collaboration with the Research Department of “Farhangestan-o-Honar” (Art Academy) of the Islamic republic of Iran, is planning to hold on January 16-17 2005, an international assembly on “Art and Globalization: Perspective and Achievement”. The objective of the assembly is to study the “Impact of Globalization on Art” from four angles: aesthetic, cultural, economic and technological.

The subjects to be discussed at the assembly include:

1. Art and Culture
a. Aesthetics-theoretical expression of subjective feeling of and attitude towards the beautiful, as well as moral and cognitive values of life and reality.

b. Art, the active and dynamic element in (national) culture.

c. Culture, the background and context of the promotion of (national) art. d. Folk art and official art.

2. Art and Technology
a. Art, response to practical activities, ideals, and outlooks of human life.

b. Technology (techne) – knowledge or logic of art, applied arts, methods resulting from experience and techniques of industry.

c. Art technology (techne) of oratory, rhetorical embodiment of practical virtues.

3. Art and Economy
a. Relation of art to micro and macro economy.

b. Industrial economy, mass production of art-works, the rights of author/artist in an age of democratized art products.

c. Impact of art on the taste of industrial producers.

Assembly participation requirements:
1- Replies (affirmative or negative) will have to be declared by November 20, 2004.

2- Title as well as an abstract, of the essay in English is to sent by November 30, 2004.

3- Essays are to be sent by December 22, 2004.

* The Assembly will present the essays in English together with their simultaneous translations.

* The center will pay for the return tickets of the non-native participants and also a 2-day
(3-day) stay in Isfahan or Shiraz.