Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology

RIGA, Latvia - October 8 - 11, 2013

The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology - RENEW, will be hosted by RIXC in partnership with the
Latvian Academy of Arts, Stockholm School of Economics and Danube
University’s Center for Image Science. Following Banff 2005, Berlin
2007, Melbourne 2009 and Liverpool 2011, the Media Art History Boards
and Renew Co-chairs invite you to attend Renew in Riga 2013.

Renew will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on
the histories of networked digital, electronic and technological media
arts.

SESSIONS:
:: Histories of networked art and media technologies, 
:: Archiving, preserving and representing new media art,
:: Multifarious potential of expression in media art - 'new imagery' of
our times,
:: Media archaeology,
:: Paradigm shift - from new media to post-media conditions in art,
:: Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the Baltics,
:: Revising the geospatial aspects - for writing comparative media art
histories,
:: Resilient networks and emerging 'techno-ecological' art practices,
:: Art and Science,
:: and Paradigm shifts - in media art education.
With special emphasis being given to current tendencies in
sustainability, discussing approaches in the issues of producing,
preserving and representing media artworks - how to 'renew' them through
both - tools and histories. 

KEYNOTES:
Prof. Errki HUHTAMO / University of California, Los Angeles
Prof. Lev MANOVICH / The City University of New York
Prof. Edward A. SHANKEN / University of Washington

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: 
Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS

SPEAKERS:
Kuai SHEN AUSON, Vanni BRUSADIN, Richard BARBROOK, Dusan BAROK, Giselle
BEIGUELMAN, Erich BERGER, Ilze BLACK, Roberta BUIANI, Brogan BUNT,
Annick BUREAUD, Charlotte BYDLER, Michael CENTURY, Venzha CHRIST, Damien
CHARRIERAS, Ana Carolina DA CUNHA, Nina CZEGLEDY, Tjarda DE HAAN, David
Maulen DE LOS REYES, Mario DE VEGA, Brian DEGGER, Annet DEKKER, Sophia
DRAKOPOULOU, Alejo DUQUE, Ernest EDMONDS, Branislav EGIC, Patrick ELLIS,
Jonatan Habib ENGQVIST, Patrícia FALCO, Ksenia FEDOROVA, Paul
FEIGELFELD, Lauren FENTON, Bronac FERRAN, Alberto FRIGO Darko FRITZ,
Marialaura GHIDINI, Gabriel MENOTTI GONRING, Oliver GRAU, Yara GUASQUE,
Kevin Chris HALES, HAMILTON, Marta HEBERLE, Jay HETRICK, Vanina HOFMAN,
Nanette HOOGSLAG, John HOPKINS, Hanna Barbara HÖLLING, Kathy Rae
HUFFMAN, Roddy HUNTER, Agathe JARCZYK, Agnieszka JELEWSKA, Timo KAHLEN,
Douglas KAHN , Silva KALCIC, Eva KEKOU, Raivo KELOMEES, Olga KISSELEVA,
Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Rudi KNOOPS, Saskia KORSTEN, Bartek
KORZENIOWSKI, Mirjana KOVACEVIC, Slavo KREKOVIC, Katja KWASTEK,
Guilherme KUJAWSKI, Anne LAFORET, Paul LANDON, William LOCKETT, Richard
LOWENBERG, Alessandro LUDOVICO Kristian LUKIA, Jungyeon MA, Gavin
MACDONALD, Damián PERALTA MARI?ELARENA, Victor MAZON, Armin MEDOSCH,
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Frieder NAKE, Magdalena NOWAK, Rachel O'DWYER,
Margret Elisabet OLAFSDOTTIR, Maciej OZOG, Aneta PANEK, Jussi PARIKKA,
Martina PFENNINGER, Christiane PAUL, Eva PASCOE, Andrew PATERSON,
Valentina MONTERO PE?A, Joanna PHILLIPS, Julian PRIEST, Andrew PRIOR,
Mikhel PROULX, Perttu RASTAS, Adair ROUNTHWAITE, Ashley SCARLETT, Ilva
SKULTE, Andrey SMIRNOV, Brian Reffin SMITH, Emit SNAKE-BEINGS, Morten
SONDERGAARD, Josephine STARRS, Stahl STENSLIE, Daniel TEMKIN, David
THOMAS, Paul THOMAS, Leila TOPIC, Marc TUTERS, Pau WAELDER, Clea T.
WAITE, James WERNER, Florian WIENCEK, Artemis WILLIS, Wessel VAN
RENSBURG, Gabriel VANEGAS, Erandy VERGARA, Helene VON OLDENBURG, &
Dietmar UNTERKOFLER 

SESSION CHAIRS: 
Douglas KAHN, Christiane PAUL, Dieter DANIELS, Frieder NAKE, Tatiana
BAZZICHELLI, Armin MEDOSCH, Nishant SHAH, Oliver GRAU, Wendy COONES,
Darko FRITZ, Inke ARNS, Raivo KELOMEES, Nina CZEGLEDY, Machiko KUSAHARA,
Gediminas URBONAS, Andrew PATERSON, Shu Lea CHEANG

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Registration is open now – early bird available until August 1, 2013:
www.mediaarthistory.org/renew/registration 

Preliminary program:
www.mediaarthistory.org/renew 
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The RENEW conference will be complemented by a variety of affiliated
events, including the ART+COMMUNICATION festival, with SAVE AS - a
thematically related media art exhibition, receptions, workshops, live
performances and concerts.

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Special thanks to MAH boards for their expertise and support.

Honorary Board: 
Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS, Robert
ADRIAN

Renew Conference Advisory Board: 
Erik KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi
PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE, Mark TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko
PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH, Edward SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI,
Frieder NAKE

MAH Conference Series Steering Committee:  
Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver
GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul
THOMAS
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More info:
http://www.mediaarthistory.org 
http://rixc.lv/13