LIVE STREAMING
Refresh! 1st International Conference on the
Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
" Recognizing the increasing significance of
media art for our culture, this Conference on the
Histories of Media Art will discuss for the first
time the history of media art within the
interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of
the histories of art. Banff New Media Institute,
the Database for Virtual Art and Leonardo/ISAST
are collaborating to produce the first
international art history conference covering art
and new media, art and technology, art-science
interaction, and the history of media as
pertinent to contemporary art. "
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
<http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de>http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
<http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/>http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
Venue:
September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
CONFERENCE PROGRAM with streaming times
<http://www.MediaArtHistory.org>www.MediaArtHistory.org
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the conference in Banff we are web streaming live
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Program:
29. September 05
GMT 15:30 h / CANADA 8:30 am
keynote Edmond Couchot: Towards the Autonomous Image
16:30h / 9:30 am - opening plenary - MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes 1
(Chairs: Oliver Grau and Gunalan Nadarajan )
After photography, film, video, and the little
known media art history of the 1960s-80s, today
media artists are active in a wide range of
digital
areas (including interactive, genetic, telematic
and nanoart). Media Art History offers a basis
for attempting an evolutionary history of the
audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the
Panorama, Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual
Art of recent decades. This panel tries to
clarify, if and how varieties of Media Art have
been splitting up during the last decades. It
examines also how far back Media Art reaches as a
historical category within the history of Art,
Science and Technology. This session will offer a
first overview about the visible influence of
media art on all fields of art.
Speakers: Gunalan Nadarajan, Luise Poissant, Oliver Grau, Mario Carpo
17:30h / 11:30 am - plenary Methodologies
(Chair: Mark Hansen and Erkki Huhtamo)
Critical overview of which methods art history
has been using during the past to approach media
art.
Speakers: Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Irina Aristarkhova, Andreas Broeckmann
21:10h / 2:10 pm - plenary - Image Science and
Representation: From a Cognitive Point of View
(Chair: Barbara Stafford)
Although much recent scholarship in the
Humanities and Social Sciences has been
"body-minded" this research has yet to grapple
with a major problem familiar to contemporary
cognitive scientists and neuro scientists. How do
we reconcile a top-down, functional view of
cognition with a view of human beings as elements
of a culturally shaped biological world?
Historical as well as elusive electronic media
from the vantage of an embodied and distributed
brain.
Speakers: Barbara Stafford, Kristin Veel, Christine Ross, Phillip Thurtle &
Claudia X. Valdes, Christopher Salter, Tim Clark
12:25 h / 4:25 pm - concurrent session 1 - Art as
Research / Artists as Inventors
(Chair: Dieter Daniels)
Do "innovations" and "inventions" in the field of
art differ from those in the field of technology
and science? Have artists contributed anything
"new" to those fields of research?
Speakers: Dieter Daniels, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Fred Turner, Simon Penny,
Cornelius Borck
concurrent session 2 - MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes 2
(Chairs: Edward Shanken and Charlie Gere)
Although there has been important scholarship on
intersections between art and technology, there
is no comprehensive technological history of art
(as there are feminist and Marxist histories of
art, for example.) Canonical histories of art
fail to sufficiently address the
inter-relatedness of developments in science,
technology, and art.
Speakers: Edward Shanken, Charlie Gere, Grant Taylor, Darko Fritz & Margit
Rosen, Sylvie Lacerte, Anne Collins Goodyear, Caroline Langill, Maria
Fernandez
30. September 05
GMT 15:45 h / 8:45 am - plenary Collecting,
Preserving and Archiving the Media Arts
(Chair: Jean Gagnon)
Collections grow because of different influences
such as art dealers, the art market, curators and
currents in the international contemporary art
scene. What are the conditions necessary for a
wider consideration of media art works and of new
media in these collections?
Speakers: Jean Gagnon, Christiane Paul, Peter Weibel, Jon Ippolito
18:00 h / 11:00 am - concurrent session 1 - Database/New Scientific Tools
(Chairs: Rudolf Frieling and Oliver Grau)
Accessing and browsing the immense amount of data
produced by individuals, institutions, and
archives has become a key question to our
information society. In which way can new
scientific tools of structuring and visualizing
data provide new contexts and enhance our
understanding of semantics?
Speakers: Oliver Grau, Rudolf Frieling, Sandra Fauconnier, Christian Berndt,
Alain Depocas, Anne-Marie Duguet
concurrent session 2 - Pop/Mass/Society
(Chairs: Machiko Kusahara and Andreas Lange)
The dividing lines between art products and
consumer products have been disappearing more and
more since the Pop Art of the 1960s. The
distinction between artist and recipient has also
become blurred. Most recently, the digitalization
of our society has sped up this process
enormously. In principle, more and more artworks
are no longer bound to a specific place and can
be further developed relatively freely. The panel
examines concrete forms, e.g. computer games,
determining the cultural context and what
consequences they could have for the
understanding of art in the 21st century.
Speakers: Machiko Kusahara, Andreas Lange, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Tobey
Crockett, Mark Tribe
3:00 h / 8:00 pm
Rudolf Arnheim Lecture:
Sarat Maharaj: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and other Ways’ of Knowing
1. October 05
GMT 15:30 pm / Canada 8:30 am - plenary - Cross-Culture - Global Art
(Chair: Sara Diamond)
This panel provides an opportunity to put a
special focus on cross-cultural influences, the
global and the local. For example, how what are
the impacts of narrative structures from
Aboriginal and other oral cultures on the
analysis and practice of new media? How do
notions of identity shift across cultures
historically, how are these embedded and
transformed by new media practice? How does
globalization and the construction of global
contexts such as festivals and biennials effect
local new media practices?
Speakers: Sara Diamond, Sheila Petty, Mary Leigh Morbey, Thomas
Riccio, Aparna Sharma, Laura Marks
17:45 h / 10:45 am - concurrent session 1
Cross Diciplinary Research Methods
(Chairs: Ron Burnett and Frieder Nake)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very
intense — coming from a variety of
disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this
pressure has been around for a very long
time. So, why don’t we just strive for excellence
irrespective of discipline? Don't the artistic
practices within the field of New Media push us
in that direction anyway?
Speakers: Frieder Nake, Ron Burnett, Dot Tuer, Guy Sui Durand, Michael
Century, David Tomas, Will Straw
concurrent session 2 - Rejuvenate: Film, Sound and Music in Media Arts History
(Chairs: Douglas Kahn and Sean Cubitt)
During an earlier period of new media arts
discourse, time-based media were often considered
to be “old media." While this conceit has been
tempered, we still need to consider the
sophistication and provocation of film, sound and
music from the perspective of media arts history.
Speakers: Douglas Kahn, Sean Cubitt, Keith Sanborn, Scott Bukatman
20:45 h / 1:45 pm
keynote Lucia Santaella: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science and Technology
21:45 h / 2:45 pm - concurerent session 1 -
Collaborative Practice/ Networking (History)
(Chairs: Ryszard Kluszczynski and Diana Domingues)
In a network people are working together, they
share resources and knowledge with each other -
and they compete with each other. This process
has sped up enormously within a few decades and
has reached a new quality/dimension. The dataflow
created new economies and new forms of human
communication.
Speakers: Ryszard Kluszczynski, Diana Domingues, Nina Czegledy, Todd Davis,
Douglas Jarvis, Jeremy Turner, Margaret Dolinsky
concurrent session 2 - What Can the History of
New Media Learn from History of Science/Science
Studies?
(Chair: Linda Henderson)
Science and technology have been an important
part of the cultural field in the 20th century,
and the history of science and science studies -
along with the field of literature and science -
offer important lessons for art historians
writing the history of new media art.
Speakers: Timothy Lenoir, Linda Henderson, Timothy Druckrey,
Simon Werrett, Yann Chateigné
12:00 am / 5:00 pm - concurrent session 1 - High
Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media Art
Sciences?
(Chair: Karin Bruns)
The panel aims to bring together the
methodological fields of media studies and media
art history. Rather than limiting their focus to
canonical works of art new studies in media art
production blend methods and issues from art
history and media sciences as well as from
communication studies, sociology, techno
sciences, art history, cultural and postcolonial
studies.
Speakers: Karin Bruns, Yara Guasque, Andy Polaine, Claus Pias, Barbara Paul
concurrent session 2 - History of Institutions
(Chairs: Itsuo Sakane and Jasia Reichardt)
There are inevitable parallels between the
development of what we now call media art and
life at large. Excess of information leads to
insecurity — what to believe, what to select,
what to keep and what to discard. Sustainability,
conservation, education and access are topics
relevant to today's media art, and as relevant to
it as to our natural resources. Now that media
art has a history, how do we keep track of it and
preserve it?
Speakers: Itsuo Sakane, Jasia Reichardt, Michael Naimark, Peter Richards,
Johannes Göbel, Andreas Broeckmann (Discussant)
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