[rohrpost] Media Art History 2011 - REWIRE - Call for Papers now open

[Oliver Grau]

Media Art History 2011 - Rewire 
Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Liverpool, 28th September - 1st October 2011
Call For Papers now open - Deadline Monday, January 31st 2011


http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Host: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool
In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John Moores
University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the Universities of
the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of Virtual Art at
the Department for Image Science.

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff, Media
Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 09 Re:live in
Melbourne, Media Art History 11 Rewire will host three days of keynotes,
panels and poster sessions.

Media Art History 2011 - Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite
key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories,
which takes account of the questions surrounding documentation and
methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims to up the current to
illuminate the British contribution to media art, and by looking at our
industrial heritage and contribution to the history of computing
technologies themselves, we will open the discussion to how these
contributions are manifested internationally. Considering the
International scope of the histories of media art, science and
technology, Rewire is also listed as part of the "McLuhan in Europe"
programme, and will take place concurrently with The Asia Triennial in
Manchester and Abandon Normal Devices, the North West's festival of new
cinema and digital culture which returns to Liverpool in September 2011.
The reviewers especially welcome proposals for presentations that
resonate thematically with these events.

We are looking for original research on:

* The relations between art, science, technology and industry, both
historically and now
* New paradigms and alternative discourses for media art and media
art history, such as, for example, craft, design, social media, or
cybernetics
* Local histories and practices of media art, including (but not
limited to) Britain
* Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art,
science and technology
* Media art history in relation to the biological, biomedical and
ecological sciences
* Relations between the histories of media art and those of computing
and new technologies
* Writing art history in a technologised and scientific culture,
including the documentation of media art and how it is changed in a
technologised and scientific culture
* How the field of science and technology studies (STS) can offer
useful models for new paradigms for art history

General papers will be accepted. The conference will be delivered in a
range of formats, from panel discussions to Pecha Kucha sessions and
video poster presentations, as well as a small number of invited
speakers. The programme will include competitively selected,
peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations, and poster
sessions, as well as a small number of invited speakers. Keynote
Lectures, by internationally renowned, outstanding theoreticians and
artists, will deliberate on the central themes of the conference and
will include the Roy Stringer Memorial Lecture, held annually by FACT in
memory of Roy Stringer, an early pioneer of digital media, champion of
multimedia industries in the North West and Liverpool, and former Chair
of the Board at FACT. The conference will also include dedicated forum
sessions for participants to engage in more open-ended discussion and
debate on relevant issues and questions.

For the full Call for Papers, and to submit an abstract, please visit:
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/rewire



Chaired by Professor Mike Stubbs, Director of FACT, the panels at
Rewire will be led by co-chairs - Paul Brown (Sussex, Deakin), Dr. Sarah
Cook (CRUMB), Colin Davies (LJMU), Dr. Charlie Gere (Lancaster), Prof.
Andy Miah (UWS), Prof. Ed Shanken (UvA) - on areas of their own
expertise, and submissions will be juried by the co-chairs together with
Rewire's International Advisory Committee of leading academics, artists
and industry professionals.

International Advisory Committee:
Steven BALL, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Stuart COMER, Sean CUBITT, Dieter
DANIELS, Sara DIAMOND, Vince DZIEKAN, Charles ESCHE, Sarah FISHER, Jean
GAGNON, Graham HARWOOD, Erkki HUHTAMO, Nick LAMBERT, Debbi LANDER, Tapio
MAKELA, Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, Frieder NAKE, Taylor NUTTALL, Steve
PARTRIDGE, Christiane PAUL, Ned ROSSITER, Paul SERMON, Jinsuk SUH, Brett
STALBAUM, Julian STALLABRASS, Atau TANAKA, Andrea ZAPP