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STREAMING Refresh!
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. "
Venue:
September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute,
Canada
Viewing:
Since we have only a few places left to attend
the conference in Banff we are web streaming live all keynotes,
sessions and discussions from the site. Viewing the sessions in groups at
Universities, Libraries, and Art Centers is encouraged, in order to
facilitate local dialogue. Web streaming is available in Quick time
and Windows Media. For optimal viewing on larger screens
and for in-screen viewing of power point presentations, prior download
of Windows Media is recommended.
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
Chateigni
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 Gvbel, Andreas Broeckmann
(Discussant)
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