<nettime-ann> Barbara Stafford to Receive the MediaArtHistories Award

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Barbara Stafford to Receive the MediaArtHistories Award

 

On November 7, 2015, Prof. Dr. Barbara Maria Stafford will be honored in Montreal with the MediaArtHistories Award of the International conference series on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Dr. Stafford is one of the most renowned and innovative contemporary art historians.

 

Born in Vienna, Barbara Stafford graduated from the Warburg Institute in London with Ernst Gombrich as her doctoral supervisor. Stafford taught at the University of Chicago for several decades and held the professorship chair. Her much-cited research on the relationships between art, science, and optical media have greatly influenced the historical understanding of media art and initiated the reappraisal of media artsâ connections to the history of art and science. For a decade, the biannual MediaArtHistories conference series has been closely linked to this academic agenda. The conference series has been supported by the Department of Image Science at the Danube University and, this year, organized by Hexagram in cooperation with Concordia University and the Università du QuÃbec in Montreal.

 

Among Staffordâs academic milestones, she described the image history of anatomy and life sciences that she as outlined in her book, Body Criticism. In her publications Artful Science and Devices of Wonder, she explores historic apparatuses that augment visual perception and, hence, highlight the importance of visual and sensory arts for science. Her recent publications Echo Objects and A Field Guide to a New Metafield brought together the latest findings of within neuroscience and the theory of art and imagery.

 

In 2005 and 2007, Barbara Stafford delivered the keynote addresses at the MediaArtHistories conference in Banff (Canada) as well as GÃttweig (Austria). Moreover, she acted as a member of the International advisory board of the conference series. Stafford taught at the University of Chicago from 1972 until her retirement in 2010. Furthermore, she provide countless lectures and participated in fellowships all over the world including the Guggenheim Museum, Getty Institute, Humboldt University, the Smithsonian, the University of Melbourne and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Since 2010, she has been a visiting professor at Georgia Tech. Stafford has received numerous academic awards such as the Aby Warburg Prize (Hamburg). Since she is a member of influential advisory boards ranging from the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Parisian BibliothÃque National, and the EXPO in Hannover in 2000.

 

Laureates for the Media Art Histories Award are selected through an international process. The Media Art Histories Award will be presented to Prof Dr. Stafford during a plenary ceremony in Montreal on November 7, 2015 by the board members of the conference series: Prof. Dr. Sean Cubitt (London), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Oliver Grau (Krems), Prof. Dr. Linda Henderson (Austin), Prof. Dr. Erkki Huhtamo (Los Angeles), Prof. Dr. Douglas Kahn (Sydney), Prof. Dr. Martin Kemp (Oxford), Prof. Dr. Machiko Kusahara (Tokio), Prof. Dr. Tim Lenoir (Durham), Prof. Dr. Gunalan Nadarajan (Ann Arbour) und and instead of und Prof. Dr. Paul Thomas (Sydney).

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http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015/re-create-2015-programme-preview

http://barbaramariastafford.com/

 

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