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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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