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Subject: RE: TRACE, International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology (Program)
RE:TRACE - International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
KREMS | GÖTTWEIG | VIENNA, Austria - November 23 - 25, 2017
** Registration ** http://www.mediaarthistory.org/retrace
The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology - RE:TRACE - will be hosted by the Department for Image Science and held jointly at Danube University, Göttweig Abbey and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Following Banff 2005, Berlin 2007, Melbourne 2009, Liverpool 2011, Riga 2013 and Montreal 2015, the Media Art History Boards and Co-Chairs invite you to attend Re:Trace 2017 in Krems/Göttweig/Vienna.
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MediaArtHistories RE:TRACE Conference: Day 1, 23.11.2017 (Danube-University Krems)
09:00 Official Opening Welcome Conference Chairs Oliver GRAU (Danube
U) and Inge HINTERWALDNER (HU Berlin)
09:20 Keynote Ryszard KLUSZCZYŃSKI (University of Łodz, PL): Monument as Archive: artistic strategies from anti- to meta-memorial
10:45 Session: Cybernetics, computing and the question of representation in art, Chair: Giselle BEIGUELMAN
Steve DIXON (UK): Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism Andres BURBANO (CO): The MONIAC and the Arts Kevin HAMILTON (US): Beyond Visualization: Genealogies of Unmapped Complexity in Media Art and Technology Gerald NESTLER (AT): Aesthetics of Resolution
10:45 Session: Early experimental strategies in the image-sound-complex, Chair: Wendy COONES
Jungmin LEE (US): Scroll as Virtual Media: Kinetic Abstraction and Projection circa 1920 Stefanie BRÄUER (CH): Electronic Oscillography in Early 1950s Experimental Film Ashley SCARLETT/Martin ZEILINGER(CA): Art, Technology and Affordance Soojung YI (KR): When 'new media art' became the solution to endow cultural identity to its community? The history of new media art in South Korea since 1980s
10:45 Session: Generative Art, Chair: Ksenia FEDOROVA
Frieder NAKE (DE): Georg Nees & Harold Cohen. Retracing Origins Caroline MENEZES (UK): From Painting to Coding: The Art of Harold Cohen Sjoukje van der MEULEN (NL): Rethinking Painting: Nechvatal’s Computer Virus Project Robin OPPENHEIMER (US): You have been processed! Exploring Early Artists' & Engineers' Collaborations with Video Processing Machines
12:15 Lunch Break & POSTER SESSION of Media Art & Digital Humanities projects
13:45 Session: Politics - Ambitious goals with tactical media, Chair:
Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER
Dmitry GALKIN (RU): Art, Science and Technology in Russia: current affairs and ambitions for the future Rania GAFAAR (DE): Crisis as Critical Practice in the MENA Chandrika ACHARYA (IN): Mediating Resistance: Indian New Media Art Polonia TRATNIK (SI): Media art and Politics: The Question of Tomorrow
13:45 Session: Sound Art, Chair: Ana PERAICA
Biljana LEKOVIĆ (RS): History/Practices of Sound Art in Serbia Michelle LEWIS-KING (UK): Pulse Project: Listening Across Disciplines and Cultures Joo Yun LEE (US): Speculative-sensible Experience in Ryoji Ikeda’s Audiovisual Installation and Performance Inside and Outside of the White Cube Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda SEPÚLVEDA (CA): Towards an alternative history of Electronic Music: Latin American Women Composers, 1888-1980
13:45 Session: From Trans-Local to Telematic, Chair: Jon CATES
Rod BANTJES (CA): Governing Publics: the Politics of Optical media in 18th-century England and America Patrick LICHTY (AE): the world, Another 24 Hours: Practice-Based Research and the works of Robert Adrian X & Bill Bartlett Paul SERMON/Claire MCANDREW (UK): 3x4: a telematics/architectural hypersurface Joanna GRIFFIN (IN): Creative Encounters and Subaltern Aesthetic in the Early Years of the Indian Space Program
15:45 Session: Politics - Ecology, politics, and aesthetics I, Chair:
Andres BURBANO
Aaron BURTON (AU): Ecological intimacy and unmanned photography:
drones, GoPros, and satellites
Jens HAUSER (DK): Toward Greenness Studies: Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings Yvonne VOLKART (CH): Re-Tracing Aesthetic Strategies in Times of Electronic Waste Viola RÜHSE (AT): Facebook's symbolic headquarter MPK20 by Frank Gehry
15:45 Session: Modulating sensory perception with media cross-over,
Chair: Sjoukje van der MEULEN
Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER (AT): Digital Kinesthesia. Kinesthetic modes of media aesthetics in digital art Chris SALTER (CA): Sensed Selves: The (expanded) Sensorium in Media Art History Nina SOSNA (PT)/Ksenia FEDOROVA (RU): Connective tissues in media interferences Aura BALANESCU (RO): Media Art: Trans-Perception, Trans-Repräsentation, Trans-Consciousness
15:45 Session: Soft and Fluid Media, Chair: Katja KWASTEK
Jonas JØRGENSEN (DK): From Soft Sculpture to Soft Robotics: Retracing a Physical Aesthetics of Bio-Morphic Softness Hava ALDOUBY (IL): Shifting Sands: Sand as Medium in Israeli New Media Art Laura BELOFF (DK): Observing Evolution and Techno-Organic Practices – in Art and Design Falk HEINRICH (DK): Art and Technology as Research: Episteme and Techne Fluidity
17:15 Keynote Morten SØNDERGAARD (Aalborg University, DK): Archive Agencies. Tracing the Implied Producers of Media Art Collections
18:30 Opening Drinks and exhibition tour at Kunsthalle Krems Welcome by Director Florian Steininger
Ceremony: MediaArtHistories International Award to Werner NEKES (posthumous), Laudatio by Chair of Award Committee
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MAH RE:TRACE: Day 2, 24.11.2017 (Göttweig Abbey)
08:30 - 09:30 Transfer from Danube University to Göttweig Abbey
09:45 Keynote Wendy Hui Kyong CHUN (Brown University, US): Approximate
Repetitions: Latent Big Data
11:15 Session: Politics: Political and aesthetic impacts of automated classifications, Chair: Morten SØNDERGAARD
Maciej OŻÓG (PL): Tearing down the biometric cage: deconstructing biometric surveillance through art Jennifer GRADECKI (US)/Derek CURRY (US): Crowd-Sourced Intelligence
Agency: Prototyping Counterveillance
Devon SCHILLER (AT): The physiognomic (un)genre: Challenges of Automated Facial Expression Analysis-Based Media Art to both the Art and Science of Face Mehul BHATT (DE): THE SHAPE OF THE MOVING IMAGE: Perspectives from Spatial Cognition and Artificial Intelligence
11:15 Session: Artistic and curatorial narratives of memory, Chair:
Frieder NAKE
Darko FRITZ (HR): Interdisciplinary Multimedia at the 3rd International Artists Meetings in Vela Luka 1972 José R. ALCALÁ (ES)/Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (ES): Interactive multimedia creations at the International Museum of Electrographic Artworks in Cuenca (Spain), 1994-2006. Pioneer productions for the construction of hypermedia narratives Miklós PETERNÁK (HU): Photo/Model - The Memories of Forgetting Leonardo IMPETT (CH): Robot Aesthetics and Cultural Imperialism: the Double Hermeneutic of Computational Photography
11:15 Session: Media Archeological studies, Chair: Andres BURBANO
Roberta BUIANI (CA): Re-appropriating the messiness of things: a more-than-human approach to curating in art and science Victor FLORES (PT): Carlos Relvas (1838-1894): The Intriguing Research of his Stereo Archive Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (ES)/José R. ALCALÁ (ES): The artistic contribution of the electrographic practices in the archeology of electronic art Adam LAUDER (CA): Science/Fiction: Canadian Information Art in the 1970s
12:45 Lunch Break, optionally a guided tour through the Abbey
14:15 Session: Internet infrastructure under scrutiny, Chair: Ksenia FEDOROVA
David GAUTHIER (NL)/Marc TUTERS (NL): Mailing lists are dead, long live mailing lists! – periodising discourses, debates, and infrastructures of nettime, empire, spectre, and crumb Natalia FEDOROVA (RU): Internet of Names. Poetics of Infrastructure Martín NADAL (ES)/César ESCUDERO ANDALUZ (ES): Critical mining, Blockchain and Bitcoin in contemporary art Andre MINTZ (BR): After Internet? F.A.T. Lab's farewell and reconsiderations of the post-internet trope in art
14:15 Session: Histories of media technology, Chair: José R. ALCALÁ
Katja KWASTEK (NL): 'fictitious future pasts'? on artists reflecting on the digitality of the present by imagining the remnants of today's technology in future times Grant BOLLMER (US): Gaming Formalisms and the Aesthetics of Empathy Ozgun Eylul ISCEN (US): Alternative Histories of New Media:
Telecommunication Technologies and Media Arts in the Middle East Randall PACKER (SG): Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communication Revolution
14:15 Session: Retracing media art and its precursors in Latin America,
Chair: Andreas BROECKMANN
José-Carlos MARÍATEGUI (PE)/ Elisa ARCA (PE): Teresa Burga: a pioneer multimedia and information artist Reynaldo THOMPSON (MX): Digital art in Latin America Erandy VERGARA-VARGAS (CA): Re-Tracing Methods: Rethinking Media Art Histories and Relations between the North and the Global South Carmen Gil VROLIJK (CO): A genealogy of art and technology in Colombia:
1976-2016
16:15 Session DH: Preservation strategies I: Performing and rethinking materiality, Chair: Devon SCHILLER
Jo Ana MORFIN (MX): Restored Behavior: Performing Materiality Laura LEUZZI (UK): Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories Margrét Elísabet OLAFSDÓTTIR (IS): The Vasulka Chamber and Media Art in Iceland Denisa KERA (US)/Cynthia Selin (US): Parlor of Futures: Tarot cards, Futures Techniques and Octave Obdurant's 'Cosmographic Comparator'
16:15 Session: Curation and art production in crowdsourced and networked situations, Chair: Ryszard KLUSZCZYŃSKI
Zizi LI (US): theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics Mark NUNES (US): The Crowdsourced Archive: Mobile Media, Photography, and the Local(ized) Frame Kanokwan TRAKULYINGCHAROEN (AT): Mediascapes in 'Cities on the Move in Bangkok' (1999)
16:15 Session: net.art revisited, Chair: Janina HOTH
Raivo KELOMEES (EE): From Net Art to Post-Internet Art: The Cyclical Nature of Art Movements Rasa SMITE (LV) /Raitis SMITS (LV): Fields – Manifesting the Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media Filipe PAIS (FR): From bits to paper: A short history of the aesthetics of rematerialization Jon CATES (US): whois LaTurbo Avedon, Netochka Nezvanova and/or Rrose Sélavy?
18:00 Transfer to Krems
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MAH RE:TRACE: Day 3, 25.11.2017 (ÖAW)
07:50 - 09:30 Transfer from Danube University to the Academy of Sciences Vienna (ÖAW)
09:45 Welcome ÖAW by Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Oliver Grau
10:00 “DARIAH” Keynote Sarah KENDERDINE (EPFL, CH): Postdigital Pasts
11:30 Dariah Connectivity Part I: Collection - Archiving – Preservation, Chair: Eveline WANDL-VOGT
Francesca FRANCO (IT): Past Present Future of curatorial practices and media art history Andreas BROECKMANN (DE): Re-Visiting Les Immatériaux Giselle BEIGUELMAN (BR): Museums of the Unfinished to Ephemeral
Memories: notes on net art conservation
Janina HOTH (AT): Theorizing methods of documentation in the Archive of Digital Art Annet DEKKER (NL): Between light and dark archiving
11:30 Session: Aesthetics I - Theories of the post-digital image,
Chair: Inge HINTERWALDNER
Ingrid HOELZL (HK): Postimage: On the Future Evolution of the image and its Theory Ana NACHER (PL): The post-digital imagery as relational object Yael Eylat VAN-ESSEN (IL): From the Digital to the Post-Digital – the Photographic Image Susanne Østby SÆTHER (NO): Pink Skies and Green Screens: Readymade Colors and Chroma Keyed Moods in Video Art Since 2010
11:30 Session: Cultural roots of media art practices, Chair: Carl AIGNER
Ana PERAICA (HR): Post-digital paradigm shift: from Narcissus to Perseus Bahar AKGÜN (TK)/Mine ÖZKAR (TR): Gaze and Geometry: comparing two languages of vision from Medieval Eastern and Modern Western visual compositions Alberto SEMELER (BR): Cybercontemporary art: mutations and digital contagion Manuelle FREIRE (CA): Training in the complex adaptive systems of media
art: A critique of the mythologies of art and interdisciplinary learning in higher education
13:00 Lunch Break & POSTER SESSION of Digital Humanities projects in the hall
14:30 Dariah Connectivity Part II: Preservation strategies II: Dynamic archiving, Chair: Frieder NAKE
George LEGRADY (US): Projects in Visualizing Data 1992-2017 Harald KRÄMER (HK): Archiving Ephemeral Knowledge - Hong Kong Martial Arts as a Documentation Strategy for Intangible Cultural Heritage Ann-Marie DUGUET (FR): The anarchive series as a challenge between art and information. Another approach of media art history today
14:30 Session: Aesthetics II - New media art theory mashup, Chair: Inge HINTERWALDNER
Jacob WAMBERG (DK): Return of operativity: Prolegomena to a grand narrative of media in deep time Valentino CATRICALÀ (IT): The social impact of Media Art Pau ALSINA (ES): Ethico-onto-epistemologies of Media Art: A case study of the 'Protocol for Interdisciplinary Research' project
14:30 Session: Recent tendencies in computer-aided preserving and presenting, Chair: Jon CATES
Richard RINEHART (US): Code-Switching
Goki MIYAKITA (JP)/Keiko OKAWA (JP): Design of Narrative Book
Collection: Redesigning Pre-Modern Japanese Books in the Digital Age Maria Teresa CRUZ (PT): Curating in the Age of Artistic Ubiquity and of Visualizing Techniques
16:30 Dariah Connectivity Roundtable: Six decades of Digital Arts & museums - a new infrastructure Discussants for Roundtable tba
16:30 Session: Reframing social artistic initiatives since the 1960s,
Chair: Valentino CATRICALA
Stephen JONES (AU): Community Activist Video and the origins of Video
Art
Kirk WOOLFORD (UK): CyberSM, cybersex and 25 years of VR
Catherine BERNARD (US): Electronic Disturbance Theater, Floating Point
Unit, Fakeshop
16:30 Session: Ecology, Politics, Aesthetics II, Chair: Pau ALSINA
Clara Boj TOVAR/Diego DIAZ (ES): Hybrid ecologies on the anthropocene:
Mar Menor Research
Birgit BACHLER (NZ): Live streams. Introducing the narratives of local
waters to Aotearoa/New Zealand media art
Sara GARZON (US): Amaru Cholango in How to Poeticize Technology
Nathalia LAVIGNE (BR): Art on Instagram: Imaginary museums,
counter-collections and moving images
18:00 Closing Remarks & Announcement of the next host (2019)
18:30 PUBLIC KEYNOTE Martin KEMP (Oxford University, UK): Computerising
Leonardo: a visual dialogue from 1988 to now
19:30 Conference Finissage with reception
*** Poster Session of Media Art & Digital Humanities projects and
research tools (Nov 23 & 25)***
1. Steyn BERGS (NL): Streaming Liquidity Inc.: Singularization and
Commodification of the Digital Artwork
2. Franziska BUTZE-RIOS (AT): An Example of Conscientious Handling of
Time-Based Media Artwork
3. Stephanie DeBOER (US): On Adjacent Infrastructural Tactics for Urban
Screens (Shanghai version)
4. Penesta DIKA (XK): Reflections of contemporary society in media art:
The visitor as a leading actor in artworks
5. Valerie FELIX (CH): The Trace in Digital Interactive work. A
rethinking between identification and “technique of the self”
6. Manuelle FREIRE (CA): La Biennale internationale de l'art numérique
de Montréal (BIAN) - AUTOMATA
7. Oliver GRAU, Devon SCHILLER, Janina HOTH (Lab for Digital
Humanities, AT): The Media Art History Research Thesaurus
8. Bilge HASDEMIR (TR): Digging the (new) media art scene of İstanbul:
Towards Media Art Historical Re-discovery
9. David KADISH (DK): On Scale and Fields: Artistic Practice and
Agricultural Machines
10. Romi MIKULINSKY (IL): Stargazing and the "Data Sublime"
11. Maria MIRE (PT): Technical phantasmagorias: the phantom-effect of
moving images
12. Anna ORRGHEN (SE): The Ephemerality of Digital Monuments: Swedish
Public Art at the Turn of the Millennium, the case of
“Tidsdokumentet”
13. Chiara PASSA (IT): From the series Live Architectures:
“Dimensioning”.
14. Treva PULLEN (CA): BioCare: Feminist Labs and the Aesthetics of
Care
15. Julian STADON (UK)/Boris DEBACKERE (NL): Yima: A Proposition for
Archiving Cultural Heritage Through Objects Rather Than Human
Subjectivity
16. Iván TERCEROS (EC): Coding from the Latin American ancestral
indigenous knowledge
17. Tomohiro UESHIBA (JP): A plan for reproduction of stage equipments
of Dumb type’s performance “pH”
18. Joel ZIKA (AU): Horror and the history of immersive media art
19. Hanna BRINKMANN (AT): In search for the Cultural Eye
20. Diego MELLADO (ES): System Analysis for New Media Artworks
**CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:**
Oliver GRAU and Inge HINTERWALDNER
**MAH Honorary Board:**
Rudolf ARNHEIM†, Douglas DAVIS†, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter
WEIBEL
** Re:Trace AUSTRIA BOARD:**
Carl AIGNER (Landesmuseum St. Pölten, AT); Jose Ramon ALCALA
(University of Castilla La Mancha, ES); Giselle BEIGUELMAN (University
of São Paulo, BR); Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (University of Castilla La
Mancha, ES); Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana University Lüneburg, DE);
Andres BURBANO (Universidad de los Andes, CO); Valentino CATRICALA
(University Roma Tre / Media Art Festival, IT); Sebastian EGENHOFER
(University of Vienna, AT); Ksenia FEDOROVA (RU/UC Davis, US); Sabine
FLACH (University of Graz, AT); Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER (University of
Applied Arts, Vienna, AT); Erkki HUHTAMO (University of California Los
Angeles, US); Ryszard KLUSZCZYŃSKI (University of Lodz, PL); Katja
KWASTEK (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL); Daniel Cardoso LLACH
(Carnegie Mellon University, US); Sjoukje van der MEULEN (Utrecht
University, NL); Gunalan NADARAJAN (University of Michigan, US); Gerald
NESTLER (Vienna, A); Ana PERAICA (Split, HR); Christopher SALTER
(Concordia University, CA); Yukiko SHIKATA (Tokio, JP; Christa SOMMERER
(University of Art and Design, Linz, AT); Morten SØNDERGAARD (Aalborg
University, DK); Axel STOCKBURGER (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT);
Gerfried STOCKER (Ars Electronica, Linz, AT); Eveline WANDL-VOGT (ÖAW,
Vienna, AT).
**MAH Conference Series Board: * *
Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana Universität), Sean CUBITT (Goldsmiths,
UK), Oliver GRAU (Danube University, AT), Linda HENDERSON (University of
Texas, US), Erkki HUHTAMO (University of California, US), Douglas KAHN
(University of New South Wales, AU), Machiko KUSAHARA (Waseda
University, JP), Tim LENOIR (Davis University, US), Gunalan NADARAJAN
(Ann Arbor School of Art&Design, US), Paul THOMAS (University of New
South Wales, AU)
* *VENUES: * *
Danube University / Located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World
Heritage Wachau region, Danube University is the only public university
in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering
low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life-long
learners. Located at both a modern university campus and in the Göttweig
Monastery, the Dept. for Image Science is an internationally unique
institution for research and innovative teaching with an international
faculty, at this point 120 scholars from various nations and
disciplines. The innovative approach of the Department for Image Science
with the close connection to practice has developed the Archive of
Digital Art and in 2006 founded the low-residency
MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA answering the need for international,
post-graduate studies. www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
Vienna / The vibrant capital of the Republic of Austria in Central
Europe meeting international travel standards with safe and exciting
surroundings that embrace culture both old and new. Planning for Vienna
is being organized with partner institutions and colleagues. Fast and
frequent public transportation between Vienna and Krems allows for a
blending of two locations into one venue, distributing separate days in
each venue.
**PARTNERS: **
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VIENNA // LOWER AUSTRIA // HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY,
BERLIN // ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART // DARIAH-EU // ERASMUS MUNDUS MEDIA
ARTS CULTURES // ACADEMIA EUROPAEA // LEONARDO // KUNSTHALLE KREMS
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