[rohrpost] CFP: MAH Re-Create 2015 Call for Proposals
Oliver Grau
Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at
Don Okt 9 20:19:51 CEST 2014
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
(site version française)
DEADLINE for submissions is December 7, 2014
RE-CREATE 2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth
international conference on the histories of Media, Art
Science and Technology
Hexagram, Concordia University and UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă
Montréal in collaboration with Media at McGill and CIRMMT- McGill
Montréal, Canada. 5-8 November 2015 Re-Create CFP
Submission Site
Re-Create 2015, the sixth international Conference on the
Histories of Media, Art Science and Technology will mark the
10th Anniversary of the Re conference series. Re-Create 2015 is
devoted to exploring what theories, methodologies and techniques
can be used to understand past, present and indeed, future
paradigms of creative material practice involving technologies
within research contexts from a historical and critical point of
view.
The title Re-Create is an abbreviation for the term
“research-creation”, part of a growing international movement
which goes by many names: “practice-led research,” “research-led
practice,” and “artistic research,” among others.
While the link between research and practice seems to be
a new horizon, the media-based arts have long been at the
intersection of the humanities, sciences, and engineering and
present a critical site in which to take up the changing
relationships between knowledge, power, and economy.
Research normally signifies modes of acquiring new
knowledge that coherently and systematically advance a field and
is grounded and validated by both social frameworks (peers) and
existing bodies of knowledge. Similarly, research in conjunction
with material practice demands that making be historically,
theoretically and methodologically framed and valorized.
Re-Create 2015 seeks to interrogate the historical
entanglement of research and making within a wide and diverse
set of international sites, disciplines and contexts: from
non-institutional creative research initiatives driven by
artists and designers in the streets, to the labyrinths of
industry funded research labs and universities. From unknown or
ignored histories of research-based practices in Latin America,
Asia and Indigenous communities to government funded
initiatives, the conference will thus critically explore the
ongoing and productive tensions between theory, method and
making in the histories of media, art, science and technology.
Potential contributors to the conference should focus
thematic panel sessions or individual papers on one of the
following areas of concentration:
LAB STUDIES : Studies on how artists and designers have
historically worked in industry, universities and collective,
grass roots-based research environments
CURATORIAL ACTIONS AND PRACTICES : How have research
paradigms historically entered into curatorial practices and how
have they been framed, exhibited and articulated?
ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH : Historical profiles of
non-institutionally based research-driven explorations.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS : How have theoretical paradigms
in media, art, science and technology historically evolved
structuralism in the 1960s or media studies to current work in
affect theory, media archaeology, critical post-humanist
approaches derived from STS, appropriation afeminist new materialism, queer and postcolonial studies,
enactive and distributed cognition?
METHODOLOGIES : What can methodological tools emerging
from the human and social sciences like ethnography,
historiography, archaeology, genealogy and other qualitative
techniques provide to the historical and critical positioning of
practice?
INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERSECTIONS AND IMPACTS :
Exploration of the formation and rise of interdisciplinary
research fields (image science, sound studies, science studies,
sensory studies, environmental studies) and their impact on the
construction of media art histories.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES : What is the historical relationship
between the digital humanities and the histories of media, art,
science and technology?
SITES: How historically have sites of research and
practice in media art, science and technology evolved outside of
the predominant spheres of Europe and North America and what
forms have they taken?
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include competitively
selected peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations
and poster sessions as well as a number of keynotes and invited
speakers and a parallel satellite program of events with
Hexagram partners including core cultural institutions in
Montreal. In the interest of maintaining a concentrated
conference program, there will be a series of plenary sessions
as well as accompanying poster sessions. Each of the plenaries
as well as the poster sessions will mix together scholars and
practitioners representing different cultural perspectives. The
conference will be held in English and French, with live
translation.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Re-Create 2015 welcomes contributions from researchers,
artists, designers, scholars and technologists working across
diverse disciplines, sites and practices. We particularly
encourage scholars and creators from international contexts
outside of Europe and North America.
ABOUT THE CONTEXT AND THE HOST
The conference will take place in Montreal hosted by
Hexagram, the international network for media, art, design and
digital culture (http://hexagram.ca). It is the largest
network of its kind in Canada and one of the largest
internationally dedicated to research-led creative practices.
Ten years after the inaugural Re-Fresh conference at the Banff
New Media Institute in 2005, the return of the conference to
Canada and specifically to Quebec, offers a pertinent context to
address the evolution of research in the histories of media,
art, science and technology
(http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series).The conference
will be held across the two core Hexagram sites at Concordia
University and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The
venues are within walking distance from each other, centrally
located in vibrant, downtown Montreal – the digital arts and
culture capital of North America.
SUBMISSIONS
250 word abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and
posters should be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF
formats. Texts can be submitted in French and in English. The
DEADLINE for submissions is December 7, 2014. Submitters will be
informed by mid February 2015. INFORMATION about the submission
process and general information can be found at: Re-Create
Submission Site
Conference partners include Media at McGill, CIRMCinémathèque québécoise, DHC-Art, Elektra/ACREQ, Goethe-Institut
Montreal and others to be announced.
Conference chairs and Hexagram Co-Directors: Chris
Salter, artist, Concordia University Research Chair and
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia
University (QC/CA/US/DE) and Gisèle Trudel (QC/CA), artist and
professor, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du
Québec à Montréal.
Re-Create Local Organizing Committee: Thierry BARDINI,
Barbara CLAUSEN, Ricardo DAL FARRA, Jean DUBOIS, Jean GAGNON,
Alice JIM, Jason LEWIS, Jonathan LESSARD, Louise POISSANT, Chris
SALTER, Cheryl SIM, Jonathan STERNE, Alain THIBAULT, Gisele
TRUDEL, Marcelo WANDERLEY Re-Create 2015
International Advisory Board: Marie-Luise ANGERER, Monika
BAKKE, Samuel BIANCHINI, Georgina BORN, Andreas BROECKMANN,
Annick BUREAUD, Michael CENTURY, Joel CHADABE, Dooeun CHOI, Ian
CLOTHIER, Sarah COOK, Nina CZEGLEDY, Sara DIAMOND, Diane
DOMINGUES, Jean Paul FOURMENTRAUX, Zhang GA, SĂ©bastien GENVO,
Orit HALPERN, Jens HAUSER, Denisa KERA, Felipe CĂ©sar LONDONO,
Natalie LOVELESS, Glenn LOWRY, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Roger
MALINA, Sally Jane NORMAN, Nicolas NOVA, Jussi PARIKKA,
Christiane PAUL, Simon PENNY, Andrew PICKERING, Sundar SARRUKAI,
Yukiko SHIKATA, Michel VAN DARTEL, Ionat ZURR
MAH Honorary Board: Douglas DAVIS, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo
SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL
MAH Conference Series Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda
HENDERSON, Erkki HUHTAMO, Douglas KAHN, Martin KEMP, Machiko
KUSAHARA, Tim LENOIR, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Paul THOMAS
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