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Relational Maneuvers in Autobiographical Video Art This paper argues that autobiographical video art radically transforms intersubjective relationships with viewers, and in doing so deconstructs critical spectatorship by positioning the viewer as an interlocutor. Here I draw attention to the work of visual artists Lisa Steele, Colin Campbell, Peter Kingstone, and Irene Loughlin, who help to reconceptualize the interlocutor subject position by using unorthodox transmedial aesthetic strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the conference "Life Writing in Europe" by the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Europe, held at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 29-31, 2009 is presented. Topics include gender politics in biographies, language and national identity, and a comparison of the academic study of biographical writings from the U.S. and Canada with those from Europe. The symposium featured several scholars including Georg Misch, Philippe Lejeune, and Mineke Bosch.

Discusses the transition from paper printing to web publishing of autobiographical diaries. Benefits of online autobiographical diaries to diarists and readers; Factors responsible for expansion of online journals; Possibility of restricting the accessibility of an author's autobiography to a selected group of people through the Web.

Calls for papers on how autobiography and other forms of life writing are engaging the Internet, hypertext, digital multimedia, virtual worlds and role-playing games, to be submitted to the Center for Biographical Research.

Highlights papers about life writing by and about German-speaking women in the 18th century. Effect of language barriers; Creation of the International Autobiography and Biography Association.