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) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference ticket (3 days): EUR 50 (full) / EUR 20 (concessions) Day ticket: EUR 25 (full) / EUR 10 (concessions) Contact and information: replace@mikro.in-berlin.de, http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.pd... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wendy Jo Coones, M.Ed. Department for Image Science DANUBE UNIVERSITY Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 3500 Krems, AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.mediaarthistories.org