PREFACE Our plenary presentat...

PREFACE

Our plenary presentation was a slide-lecture drawn from the introduction to our forthcoming edited collection, Interfaces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography. We began the Interfaces cast several years ago, in reply to the remarkable outpouring of self-portraiture in contemporary painting, photography, artists' parts and mixed visual forms so as installations, collage, and quilting that marked the last couple decades of autobiographical inquiry in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and elsewhere. And the couple of us began ...