re:place – International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology
On November 15th re:place – International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology will take place in Berlin. I will keep you posted on the pre-conference meeting concerning the media art education summit prior to ISEA 2008 to take place in Singapore.
re:place 2007
The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,
Science and Technology
Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date: 15-18 November 2007
Information: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace
Programme
13 / 14 / 15 November, pre-conference workshops and events (to be announced)
Opening Session
15 November, Thursday, 14.00-15.00, Auditorium
Welcome by Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE)
Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT): MediaArtHistory – Image
Science – Digital Humanities
Practical introduction to the conference: Andreas Broeckmann (DE)
Panel 1: Place Studies: Art/Science/Engineering
15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Auditorium
Michael Century (CA/US), Encoding motion in the early computer:
knowledge transfers between studio and laboratory
Stephen Jones (AU): The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the
University of Sydney, 1968-1975
Eva Moraga (ES): The Computation Center at Madrid University,
1966-1973: An example of true interaction between art, science and
technology
Robin Oppenheimer (US/CA): Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two
Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned
the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
Panel 2: Intersections of Media and Biology
15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Theatersaal
Assimina Kaniari (GR/UK), Morphogenesis in Action: D’Arcy Thompson
and the experimental in Leonardo from LL Whyte to now
Jussi Parikka (FI): Insect Media of the Nineteenth Century
Michele Barker (AU): From Life to Cognition: investigating the role
of biology and neurology in new media arts practice
Boo Chapple (AU): Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from
medicine to contemporary art and biology
Keynote 1/Helmholtz Lecture (speaker t.b.c.)
15 November, Thursday, 18.30 at Helmholtz-Zentrum, Humboldt University
Panel 3: Histories of Abstraction
16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium
Laura Marks (CA): Artificial life from classical Islamic art to new
media art, via 17th-century Holland
Arianna Borrelli (IT/DE): The media perspective in the study of
scientific abstraction
Amir Alexander (US): Death in Paris: When Mathematics became Art
Paul Thomas (AU): Constructed infinite smallness
Panel 4: Comparative Histories of Art Institutions
16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal
Lioudmila Voropai (RU/DE): Institutionalisation of Media Art in the
Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socio-economic
Factors
Renata Sukaityte (LT): Electronic art in Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania: the interplay of local, regional and global processes
Christoph Klütsch (DE): The roots and influences of information
aesthetics in Germany, Canada, US, Brazil and Japan
Catherine Hamel (CA): Crossing Into The Border – an intersection of
vertical and horizontal migration
Panel 5: Place Studies: Media Art Histories
16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium
Daniel Palmer (AU): Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL): From Media Art to Techno Culture.
Reflections on the Transformation of the Avant-Gardes (the Polish
case)
Caroline Seck Langill (CA): Corridors of Practice I: Technology and
Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and
Early 80s
Machiko Kusahara (JP): A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 – 1970
Panel 6: Media Theory in Cultural Practice
16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal
Kathryn Farley (US): Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of
Classroom Collaboration
Nils Röller (DE/CH): Flusser’s Individual Academy: Thinking
instruments in institutional and personal relations
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (US): The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory
Antony Hudek (US/CH), Antonia Wunderlich (DE): Between Tomorrow and
Yesterday: charting Les Immatériaux as technoscientific event
General Discussion
16 November, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium
Keynote 2: Siegfried Zielinski (DE)
16 November, Friday, 20.00, Auditorium
Panel 7: Interdisciplinary Theory in Practice
17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium
Christopher Salter (US/CA): Unstable Events: Performative Science,
Materiality and Machinic Practices
Simone Osthoff (BR/US): Philosophizing in Translation: Vilem
Flusser’s Brazilian Writings
Karl Hansson (SE): Haptic Connections – On Hapticality and the
History of Visual Media
Janine Marchessault (CA)/ Michael Darroch (CA): Anonymous History as
Methodology: The Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline
Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-53)
Panel 8: Place Studies: Russia / Soviet Union
17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal
Introduction/Moderation: Inke Arns (DE): The Avant-Garde in the Rear
View Mirror
Olga Goriunova (RU): Cultural critique of technology in philosophy of
technology and religious philosophy of early XX century Russia
Margareta Tillberg (SE/DE): Cybernetics and Arts: The Soviet Group
Dvizhenie (Movement) 1962-1972
Margarete Voehringer (DE): ‘Space, not Stones’ Nikolai Ladovski’s
Psychotechnical Laboratory for Architecture, Moscow 1926 (t.b.c.)
Irina Aristarkhova (RU/US): Stepanova’s ‘Laboratory’
Panel 9: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium
Sheila Petty (CA): African Digital Imaginaries
Cynthia Ward (US): Minding Realities: Geometries of Cultural Cognition
Erkki Huhtamo (FI/US): Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the
pro-Western Bias of Media History
Manosh Chowdhury (Bangladesh/JP): Can there be an ‘Art History’ in
the South?: Myth of Intertextuality and Subversion in the Age of
Media Art
Panel 10: Cybernetic Histories of Artistic Practices
17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal
moderation/introduction: Geoff Cox (UK): Software Art has No History
Christina Dunbar-Hester (US): Listening to Cybernetics: Music,
Machines, and Nervous Systems, 1950-1980
David Link (DE): Memory for Love Letters. Computer Archaeology of a
Very Early Program
Brian Reffin Smith (UK/DE): Hijack! How the computer was wasted for art
Kristoffer Gansing (SE): Humans Thinking Like Machines – Incidental
Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State
General Discussion
17 November, Saturday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium
Keynote 2: Lorrain Daston (US/DE)
17 November, Saturday, 20.00, Auditorium
Feedback Session and planning for re: conference follow-up in 2009
18 November, Sunday, 12.00, Auditorium
Forum discussions on Cyber-Feminism, Media Art and Musicology, a.o.
18 November, Sunday
POSTERS
(to be presented in the poster exhibition and in short lunchtime presentations)
(several t.b.c.)
Su Ballard (NZ): ‘Real Time’: early encounters with immersive
installation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Clarisse Bardiot (FR): The Artists and Engineers of 9 Evenings:
Theatre and Engineering, New York, 1966
Ross Bochnek (US): When Clinical Neuropsychology Met Time-Based Art
Wayne Clements (UK): The Descent of New Media: Art, Warfare and
Cambridge Cybernetics
Lenka Dolanova (CZ): What They Were Cooking in There: Cooks, Their
Kitchen and the Taste of Fresh Video
Ernest Edmonds (UK/AU) Human and robot behaviour: art meets AI
Francis Arsene Fogue Kuate (Cameroon): The contribution of technical
centres to the development of Media Art in Africa: A case study of
the Audiovisual Professional Training Centre of Ekounou (Yaounde)
Francesca Franco (IT/UK): New Media Art and an Institutional Crisis
in the History of the Venice Biennale, 1968
Darko Fritz (HR/NL): Vladimir Bonacic: Dynamic Objects (1968-1971) -
computer-generated works made in Zagreb within New Tendencies art
network (1961-1973)
Yara Guasque (BR), Sandra Albuquerque Reis Fachinello (BR), Silvia
Guadagnini (BR): Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture
and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to
understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized
audience in Brazil
Rosana Horio Monteiro (BR): Art and Science Playing on the Margins.
On the discovery of photography in the 19th century Brazil
Karen Ingham (UK): A Ticket to The Theatre of The Dead
Maude Ligier (FR): How cybernetics entered the world of art? The case
of Nicolas Schöffer
David McConville (US): Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, and
Perturbation in Early Dome Theaters
Vytautas Michelkevicius (LT): (Post)photography and Media Art:
Rethinking Institutionalization and Public Curatorship in Lithuania
Simon Mills (UK): framed: interviews with new media writers and artists
Maria Jose Monge (Costa Rica), Jose-Carlos Mariategui (PE): Between a
‘New Media Hub’ and an Unknown History: New Media Art in Costa Rica
Angela Ndalianis (AU), Lisa Beaven (AU), Saige Walton (AU):
Technologies of Wonder – a Pansemiotic Approach
Ariane Noel de Tilly (CA): The different ‘versions’ of John Massey’s
As the Hammer Strikes (A Partial Illustration)
Ryan Pierson (US): Thinking Space: Mediating IBM’s Deep Blue in the
History of Computers
Markku Reunanen (FI): Observations on the Adoption of Science in a Subculture
Nina Samuel (DE/CH): Re-Reading Fractals: Towards an Archeology of
the Digital Form
Roberto Simanowski (DE/US): The Art of Mapping Data: Statistics,
Naturalism, and Transformation
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (AT/FI): Paul Otlet’s impact on visual
knowledge building in current developments of Web 2.0
Melanie Swalwell (NZ): Early Digital Games Production in New Zealand
Carolyn Tennant (US), Kathy High (US): The Experimental Television Center
Claudia X. Valdes (CL/US), Phillip Thurtle (US): From Spiderman to
Alba: transgenics in a post-nuclear world
Simon Werrett (US): The Festive Formation of the City: The Art and
Science of Urban Space in the late Soviet Union
via Oliver Grau