[rohrpost] Barbara Stafford to Receive the MediaArtHistories Award

[Image Science]

Barbara Stafford to Receive the MediaArtHistories Award 
On November 7, 2015, Prof. Dr. Barbara Maria Stafford will be honored
in Montreal with the MediaArtHistories Award of the International
conference series on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.
Dr. Stafford is one of the most renowned and innovative contemporary art
historians.
Born in Vienna, Barbara Stafford graduated from the Warburg Institute
in London with Ernst Gombrich as her doctoral supervisor. Stafford
taught at the University of Chicago for several decades and held the
professorship chair. Her much-cited research on the relationships
between art, science, and optical media have greatly influenced the
historical understanding of media art and initiated the reappraisal of
media arts’ connections to the history of art and science. For a decade,
the biannual MediaArtHistories conference series has been closely linked
to this academic agenda. The conference series has been supported by the
Department of Image Science at the Danube University and, this year,
organized by Hexagram in cooperation with Concordia University and the
Université du Québec in Montreal.
Among Stafford’s academic milestones, she described the image history
of anatomy and life sciences that she as outlined in her book, Body
Criticism. In her publications Artful Science and Devices of Wonder, she
explores historic apparatuses that augment visual perception and, hence,
highlight the importance of visual and sensory arts for science. Her
recent publications Echo Objects and A Field Guide to a New Metafield
brought together the latest findings of within neuroscience and the
theory of art and imagery. 
In 2005 and 2007, Barbara Stafford delivered the keynote addresses at
the MediaArtHistories conference in Banff (Canada) as well as Göttweig
(Austria). Moreover, she acted as a member of the International advisory
board of the conference series. Stafford taught at the University of
Chicago from 1972 until her retirement in 2010. Furthermore, she provide
countless lectures and participated in fellowships all over the world
including the Guggenheim Museum, Getty Institute, Humboldt University,
the Smithsonian, the University of Melbourne and the Institute for
Advanced Study in Berlin. Since 2010, she has been a visiting professor
at Georgia Tech. Stafford has received numerous academic awards such as
the Aby Warburg Prize (Hamburg). Since she is a member of influential
advisory boards ranging from the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the
Parisian Bibliothèque National, and the EXPO in Hannover in 2000.
Laureates for the Media Art Histories Award are selected through an
international process. The Media Art Histories Award will be presented
to Prof Dr. Stafford during a plenary ceremony in Montreal on November
7, 2015 by the board members of the conference series: Prof. Dr. Sean
Cubitt (London), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Oliver Grau (Krems), Prof. Dr. Linda
Henderson (Austin), Prof. Dr. Erkki Huhtamo (Los Angeles), Prof. Dr.
Douglas Kahn (Sydney), Prof. Dr. Martin Kemp (Oxford), Prof. Dr. Machiko
Kusahara (Tokio), Prof. Dr. Tim Lenoir (Durham), Prof. Dr. Gunalan
Nadarajan (Ann Arbour) und and instead of und Prof. Dr. Paul Thomas
(Sydney).
　
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http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015/re-create-2015-programme-preview
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