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
An interdisciplinary forum of over 70 researchers
and artists from all over the world, re:place
2007 presents multiple historical relations
between art, science and technology. The title
're:place' refers to the sites and the migration
of artistic and knowledge production. This theme
is highlighted during the panel discussions and
poster sessions, particularly in the 'Place
Studies' stream which looks at specific
historical instances and settings. Special
attention will be given to alternatives to the
'Western' historical paradigms through
presentations about art-science relations in the
former Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America.
The conference includes general forum discussions
on interdisciplinary research strategies, as well
as keynote lectures by Lorraine Daston and
Siegfried Zielinski.
replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte
Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin. Funded by
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference
partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual
Art at Danube University Krems' Center for Image
Science, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
Media.Art.Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum für
Kulturtechnik at Humboldt Universität Berlin,
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and others.
Supported by Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin -
CzechPoint and Schwedische Botschaft Berlin.
Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA)
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Conference ticket (3 days): EUR 50 (full) / EUR 20 (concessions)
Day ticket: EUR 25 (full) / EUR 10 (concessions)
Contact and information:
replace(a)mikro.in-berlin.de,
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace
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PRAGUE / art - science - media - theory / BERLIN
8-18 NOVEMBER 2007
Three major conference events on art, science and
media theory will take place in Prague and Berlin
this November. Visit the MutaMorphosis conference
(8-11 Nov.) and bring yourself up to date with
contemporary art in extreme envirnments at the
border between art and science. Take part in a
Prague symposium about the exceptional media
theorist, Vilem Flusser (12-13 Nov.). And then
make the short journey to Berlin, where the
re:place 2007 conference (15-18 Nov.) will
feature outstanding interdisciplinary research
and debates about the histories of media, art,
science, and technology.
http://mutamorphosis.org /
http://www.goethe.de/prag /
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace
Flyer download (1.9 MB) for this series at:
http://mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/07/18/PRAGUEBERLINNOVEMBER2007.p…
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Programme re:place 2007
check http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace for updates
*** 13 / 14 / 15 November, pre-conference
workshops and events (to be announced)
****** Thursday 15 November **********************************
*** Opening Session
15 November, Thursday, 14.00-15.00, Auditorium
Welcome by Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Gunalan
Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE)
Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT):
MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital
Humanities
*** 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
*** Special Lecture Presentation
Timothy Druckrey (US): Cinemedia - Visions of Computation in Cinema
15 November, Thursday, 21.00 at TESLA Media>Art<Lab Berlin
****** Friday 16 November **********************************
*** 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
moderation: Stephen Kovats (DE/CA)
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
****** Saturday 17 November **********************************
*** Panel 7: Interdisciplinary Theory in Practice
17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium
moderation: Sara Diamond (CA)
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
moderation: Bernd Scherer (DE)
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, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium
*** Keynote 2: Lorrain Daston (US/DE)
17 November, Saturday, 20.00, Auditorium
****** Sunday 18 November **********************************
Presentation of Results of the LBI Workshop on Documentation and Metadata
with Dieter Daniels a.o.
18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 1
Forum on Cyber-Feminism
with Faith Wilding, Irina Aristarkhova, a.o.
18 November, Sunday, 10.00
Forum Discussion: Connecting Music(ology) and Media Art
Statements by Dr. Joseph Cohen (Collège de
Philosophie, Paris) and Dr. Rolf Grossmann
(Applied Cultural Studies/Aesthetics, Leuphana
University Lüneburg). Discussants include Dr.
Werner Jauk (University of Graz) and Dr. Paul
Modler (Design University Karlsruhe). Moderation
by Joyce Shintani (Design University Karlsruhe).
18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 3
Feedback Session and planning for re: conference follow-up in 2009
18 November, Sunday, 12.00, Auditorium
****** POSTERS **********************************
(poster exhibition plus short lunchtime presentations)
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
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
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Wendy Jo Coones, M.Ed.
Department for Image Science
DANUBE UNIVERSITY
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
3500 Krems, AUSTRIA
www.donau-uni.ac.at/diswww.mediaarthistories.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Massive Datasets
http://www.merl.com/wmd/
at the
International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007/
November 15, 2007
Nagoya, Japan
Are the tools we use to understand our data scalable to the tens of
millions of records, huge spans of time, minute details of behavior, and
large geographic extent that future sensor networks will generate? In
the future buildings will be studded with sensors. Every movement will
generate a few bits of data. Every fluctuation in temperature will be
recorded. Every deviation in lighting will be noticed. These large and
complex datasets will challenge the tools we use today.
Looking into the future of residential and office building Mitsubishi
Electric Research Labs (MERL) has been collecting motion sensor data
from a network of over 200 sensors for a year. The data is the residual
traces of year in the life of a research laboratory. It contains
interesting spatio-temporal structure ranging all the way from the
seconds of individuals walking down hallways, the minutes in lobbies
chatting with colleagues, the hours of dozens of people attending talks
and meetings, the days and weeks that drive the patterns of life, to the
months and seasons with their ebb and flow of visiting employees.
The dataset contains well over 30 million raw motion records, spanning a
calendar year and two floors of our research laboratory. As such it
presents a significant challenge for behavior analysis, search,
manipulation and visualization of the data. We have also prepared
accompanying analytics such as partial tracks and behavior detections,
as well as map data and anonymous calendar data marking the pattern of
meetings, vacations and holidays.
MERL is now releasing this data set to the community. We invite you to
download the data and apply your analytic, visualization, and interface
tools. We hope that you will find new facets of the data and then
submit papers to this workshop to compare notes with your colleagues.
The goal of the workshop is to understand the state of the art in the
context of the huge, detailed dataset of the near future. We solicit
papers which utilize the dataset to demonstrate new insights on the data
using any of the following techniques, or any other related technique:
* Interactive visualization
* Interactive search techniques
* Pattern discovery
* Interactive data mining
* On-line learning
* Scalable techniques for data analysis and visualization
* Event detection and classification
* Data summarization
Papers should be 8 pages inclusive. Please use the official ACM format:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Important Dates:
Data Release: June 30, 2007
Paper Submission: August 31, 2007
Notification: September 14, 2007
Camera Ready: September 30, 2007
Organizers:
Christopher R. Wren
Yuri A. Ivanov
(Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)
Program Committee (confirmed):
Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo)
Aaron Bobick (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Trevor Darrell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Irfan Essa (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Minkyong Kim (IBM Research)
Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers University)
Thad Starner (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kazuhiko Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric)
Andrew Wilson (Microsoft Research)
[We apologize if you see multiple copies of this CFP.]
APGV 07: FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND
VISUALIZATION
Co-located with 10th Tübingen Perception Conference Tübingen, Germany,
25th - 27th July, 2007.
http://www.apgv.org
Keynote by Greg Ward on "Dynamic Range and Visual Perception"
Invited talks by
- Oliver Bimber (University of Weimar)
- Volker Blanz (University of Siegen)
- Philip Dutré (KU Leuven)
- Rafal Mantiuk (MPI for Computer Science, Saarbruecken)
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INFORMATION
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Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to
benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception.
Since 2004, APGV has brought together researchers from the fields of
perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider exchange
of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from perception to advance the
design of methods for visual, auditory and haptic representation, and to
use computer graphics to enable perceptual research that would otherwise
not be possible.
By co-locating APGV 07 with the tenth annual Tübingen Perception
Conference (http://www.twk.tuebingen.mpg.de/) we aim to further promote
communication with the core perception community, and also bring APGV
back to Europe.
The keynote this year will be given by Greg Ward - he is a pioneer in
High Dynamic Range Imaging which was first employed as part of the
Radiance lighting simulation system that he developed during his
employment at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Greg has published
numerous papers on lighting simulation as well as co-authored a recent
book on High-Dynamic-Range-Imaging.
Additionally, we will offer four invited talks by Oliver Bimber, Volker
Blanz, Philip Dutré, and Rafal Mantiuk all of which have had an interest
and have worked on bridging perception and computer graphics.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Early Registration: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Late Registration: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Symposium: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - Friday, July 27, 2007
TUEBINGEN
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The beautiful town of Tuebingen is situated in southern Germany within a
short distance from the Alps, Switzerland, Austria and France. Apart
from its historic town quarter with the world-famous Hoelderlin Tower
and picturesque old houses, Tuebingen is renowned for its excellent
research facilities both from the University and the Max Planck
Institutes. Tuebingen is a convenient 20 minute drive away from
international Stuttgart Airport and well-connected by German Rail. It
offers hotels and restaurants in all price categories and represents an
ideal starting point for exploring southern Germany and the neighboring
countries of Switzerland, Austria and France.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Christian Wallraven, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Veronica Sundstedt, University of Bristol
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Michael Langer, McGill University
PROGRAM COMMITEE
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Marina Bloj, University of Bradford, UK
Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, USA
David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK
William Cowan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah, USA
Douglas W. Cunningham, University of Tuebingen
James Elder, York University, Canada
Marc Ernst, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Mark Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Yves Guiard, CNRS / Université de la Méditerranée, France
Matthias Harders, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University, USA
Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA
Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, USA
Ann McNamara, St. Louis University, USA
Gary Meyer, University of Minnesota, USA
Karol Myszkowski, MPI for Informatics, Germany
Shin'ya Nishida, NTT, Japan
Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dinesh K. Pai, Rutgers University, USA
Adar Pelah, University of York, UK
Sylvia Pont, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia, USA
Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol, UK
Peter Shirley, University of Utah, USA
Bill Thompson, University of Utah, USA
Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA
Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire, USA
Ben Watson, North Carolina State University, USA
Andrew Welchman, Birmingham University, UK
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Christian Wallraven
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
ph: +49-7071-601607 | fax: +49-7071-601616
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web: http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~walli
