Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. MELBOURNE 26-29 November 2009 The Media Art History national and international conference committees would like to invite you to attend the Re:live The latest world-wide media art history conference. Banff 2005 :: Berlin 2007 :: Melbourne 2009 Over three stimulating days, historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will explore the latest research and theories. How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options, potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realised and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history? CONFERENCE SESSIONS on the HISTORIES OF:: :: art-science-technology :: biology :: the environment :: liveness :: the life of machines :: innovation :: Keynote Presenters :: ZHANG GA :: DOUGLAS KAHN :: LISA GITELMAN We welcome you to join presenters for this extraordinary event. Preliminary speaker list includes: Marianne SCHMIDT, Slavko KACUNKO, McKenzie WARK, Luís QUINTAIS, Daniela Alina PLEWE, Gebhard SENGMUELLER, Morten SONDERGAARD, Andres BURBANO, Audrey SAMSOM, Denisa KERA, Ana PERAICA, Darko FRITZ, Gabriel Menotti GONRING, Andrea GLENIGER, Laura BELOFF, Simona CARACENI, Maggie MACNAB, Darren TOFTS, Frederik LESAGE, Lawrence BIRD, Natasha VITA-MORE, Mike LEGGETT, Eva KEKOU, Camille PALOQUE-BERGES, Nigel LLWYD, William HELYER, Mike STUBBS, Katja KWASTEK, Roger MALINA, Lizzie MULLER, Elena Giulia ROSSI, Martin CONSTABLE, Adele TAN, Danielle WILDE, Brogan BUNT, Mark GUGLIELMETTI, Margaret SEYMOUR, Oron CATTS, Melentie PANDILOVSKI, Ionat ZURR, Jennifer LADE, Stephen JONES, Paul SERMON, Christopher SALTER, Jihoon KIM, Jussi PARIKKA, Allison de FREN, Troy INNOCENT, Jon CATES, Nina WENHART, Susan BALLARD, Leon MARVELL, Rudy RUCKER, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Daniel PALMER, Zita JOYCE, Lucas IHLEIN, Louise CURHAM, Lissa MITCHELL, Gabrielle Finnane, Cass MEERS, Virginia PITTS, Manosh CHOWDHURY. Francesca FRANCO, Sarah KENDERDINE, Pia EDNIE-BROWN, Anders CARLSSON, Rosana Horio MONTERIO, Suzette WORDEN, Stefano RAIMONDI, Cat HOPE, Jung-Yeon MA, Keiko COURDY, Margit ROSEN,Robrecht VANDERBEEKEN, O. PARASKEVOPOULOU, D. CHARITOS, V.LAMONTAGNE, Mathias FUCHS, Franck ANCEL, Joanna WALEWSKA, Monika GORSKA-OLESINSKA, Robert SWEENY, Caitlin JONES, Ernest EDMONDS, Michael CENTURY, Larissa HJORTH, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, Jens HAUSER, Mike PHILLIPS,Thomas MICAL, Anne-Marie DUGET, Norman FORD, Helen Mary GRACE, Hector RODRIGUEZ, Ross HARLEY, Tapio MAKELA, Ken FRIEDMAN SEAN CUBITT and PAUL THOMAS :: Co Chairs Re:live09 :: Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Conference :: The main conference will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, featuring keynotes by invited speakers as well as international presenters selected by a peer review process, the selected Keynotes (as listed above) will be held in the evenings at the BMW Edge at Federation Square. National Committee :: Oron CATTS, Edward COLLESS, Eleanor GATES-STUART, Lisa GYE, Ross Rudesch HARLEY, Larissa HJORTH, Kim MACHAN, Leon MARVELL, Anna MUNSTER, Daniel PALMER, Melinda RACKHAM, Darren TOFTS International Advisory Board :: Andreas BROECKMANN, Berlin; Paul BROWN, London/Cotton Tree; Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Sara DIAMOND, Toronto; Diana DOMINGUES, Caxias do Sul; Timothy DRUCKREY, New York; Oliver GRAU, Krems; Gunalan NADARAJAN, Baltimore; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Erkki HUHTAMO, Los Angeles; Douglas KAHN, Davis; Ángel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI, Lodz; Machiko KUSAHARA, Tokyo; Roger MALINA, Paris; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, New York; Miklos PETERNAK, Budapest; Edward SHANKEN, Amsterdam; Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco Further information can be found at :: www.mediaarthistory.org Information about other key events connected to Re:live can be found at: www.mediaarthistories.org Super Human symposium: Melbourne 23rd-24th of November http://superhuman.anat.org.au/symposium.html Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), Melbourne, 26th of November 2009 http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html (with: Paul THOMAS, Oliver GRAU, Ian CLOTHIER a.o.) :: forwarded by the Department for Image Science :: partner of Re:live and home of the Master of Arts programm in MediaArtHistories www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories