[spectre] Live Streaming the Refresh Conference

[Oliver Grau]

LIVE STREAMING
Refresh!  1st International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, 
Science and Technology 

" Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our 
culture, this Conference on the Histories of Media Art will discuss 
for the first time the history of media art within the 
interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of art. 
Banff New Media Institute, the Database for Virtual Art 
and Leonardo/ISAST are collaborating to produce the first 
international art history conference covering art and new media, art 
and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as 
pertinent to contemporary art. "

<http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
<http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de>http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
<http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/>http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/


Venue:
September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
CONFERENCE PROGRAM with streaming times  
<http://www.MediaArtHistory.org>www.MediaArtHistory.org

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HMKV  DORTMUND
Hartware MedienKunstVerein in der PHOENIX Halle,
Ecke Hochofenstrasse und Rombergstrasse, Dortmund-Hörde
www.hmkv.de

TESLA BERLIN  (Transmediale)
tesla im podewilschen Palais, Klosterstrasse 68-70, 10179 Berlin
www.tesla-berlin.de

ZKM KARLSRUHE
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie,
Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
www.zkm.de
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Viewing:
Since we have only a few places left to attend the conference in 
Banff we are web streaming live all keynotes, sessions and 
discussions from the site. Viewing the sessions in groups at 
Universities, Libraries, and Art Centers is encouraged, in order to 
facilitate local dialogue.  Web streaming is available in Quick time 
and Windows Media. For optimal viewing on larger screens 
and for in-screen viewing of power point presentations, prior 
download of Windows Media is recommended.


Program:
29. September 05

GMT 15:30 h /  CANADA 8:30 am
keynote Edmond Couchot: Towards the Autonomous Image

16:30h / 9:30 am - opening plenary - MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes 1
(Chairs: Oliver Grau and Gunalan Nadarajan )
After photography, film, video, and the little known media art 
history of the 1960s-80s, today media artists are active in a wide 
range of digital
areas (including interactive, genetic, telematic and nanoart). Media 
Art History offers a basis for attempting an evolutionary history of 
the
audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the Panorama, 
Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art of recent decades. This 
panel tries to clarify, if and how varieties of Media Art have been 
splitting up during the last decades. It examines also how far back 
Media Art reaches as a historical category within the history of Art, 
Science and Technology. This session will offer a first overview 
about the visible influence of media art on all fields of art.
Speakers:  Gunalan Nadarajan, Luise Poissant, Oliver Grau, Mario Carpo

17:30h / 11:30 am - plenary Methodologies
(Chair: Mark Hansen and Erkki Huhtamo)
Critical overview of which methods art history has been using during 
the past to approach media art.
Speakers: Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Irina Aristarkhova, Andreas Broeckmann

21:10h / 2:10 pm - plenary - Image Science and Representation: >From 
a Cognitive Point of View
(Chair: Barbara Stafford)
Although much recent scholarship in the Humanities and Social 
Sciences has been "body-minded" this research has yet to grapple with 
a major problem familiar to contemporary cognitive scientists and 
neuro scientists. How do we reconcile a top-down, functional view of 
cognition with a view of human beings as elements of a culturally 
shaped biological world? Historical as well as elusive electronic 
media from the vantage of an embodied and distributed brain.
Speakers: Barbara Stafford, Kristin Veel, Christine Ross, Phillip Thurtle &
Claudia X. Valdes, Christopher Salter, Tim Clark

12:25 h / 4:25 pm - concurrent session 1 - Art as Research / Artists 
as Inventors
(Chair: Dieter Daniels)
Do "innovations" and "inventions" in the field of art differ from 
those in the field of technology and science? Have artists 
contributed anything "new" to those fields of research?
Speakers: Dieter Daniels, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Fred Turner, Simon Penny,
Cornelius Borck

concurrent session 2 - MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes 2
(Chairs: Edward Shanken and Charlie Gere)
Although there has been important scholarship on intersections 
between art and technology, there is no comprehensive technological 
history of art (as there are feminist and Marxist histories of art, 
for example.) Canonical histories of art fail to sufficiently address 
the inter-relatedness of developments in science, technology, and art.
Speakers: Edward Shanken, Charlie Gere, Grant Taylor, Darko Fritz & Margit
Rosen, Sylvie Lacerte, Anne Collins Goodyear, Caroline Langill, Maria
Fernandez

30. September 05

GMT 15:45 h / 8:45 am - plenary Collecting, Preserving and Archiving 
the Media Arts
(Chair: Jean Gagnon)
Collections grow because of different influences such as art dealers, 
the art market, curators and currents in the international 
contemporary art scene. What are the conditions necessary for a wider 
consideration of media art works and of new media in these 
collections?
Speakers: Jean Gagnon, Christiane Paul, Peter Weibel, Jon Ippolito

18:00 h / 11:00 am - concurrent session 1 - Database/New Scientific Tools
(Chairs: Rudolf Frieling and Oliver Grau)
Accessing and browsing the immense amount of data produced by 
individuals, institutions, and archives has become a key question to 
our information society. In which way can new scientific tools of 
structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our 
understanding of semantics?
Speakers: Oliver Grau, Rudolf Frieling, Sandra Fauconnier, Christian Berndt,
Alain Depocas, Anne-Marie Duguet

concurrent session 2 - Pop/Mass/Society
(Chairs: Machiko Kusahara and Andreas Lange)
The dividing lines between art products and consumer products have 
been disappearing more and more since the Pop Art of the 1960s. The 
distinction between artist and recipient has also become blurred. 
Most recently, the digitalization of our society has sped up this 
process enormously. In principle, more and more artworks are no 
longer bound to a specific place and can be further developed 
relatively freely. The panel examines concrete forms, e.g. computer 
games, determining the cultural context and what consequences they 
could have for the understanding of art in the 21st century.
Speakers: Machiko Kusahara, Andreas Lange, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Tobey
Crockett, Mark Tribe

3:00 h / 8:00 pm
Rudolf Arnheim Lecture:
Sarat Maharaj: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and other Ways’ of Knowing


1. October 05

GMT 15:30 pm /  Canada 8:30 am - plenary - Cross-Culture - Global Art
(Chair: Sara Diamond)
This panel provides an opportunity to put a special focus on 
cross-cultural influences, the global and the local. For example, how 
what are the impacts of narrative structures from Aboriginal and 
other oral cultures on the analysis and practice of new media? How do 
notions of identity shift across cultures historically, how are these 
embedded and transformed by new media practice? How does 
globalization and the construction of global contexts such as 
festivals and biennials effect local new media practices?
Speakers: Sara Diamond, Sheila Petty, Mary Leigh Morbey, Thomas
Riccio, Aparna Sharma, Laura Marks

17:45 h / 10:45 am - concurrent session 1
Cross Diciplinary Research Methods
(Chairs: Ron Burnett and Frieder Nake)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very intense — coming 
from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this 
pressure has been around for a very long time. So, why don’t we just 
strive for excellence irrespective of discipline? Don't the artistic 
practices within the field of New Media push us in that direction 
anyway?
Speakers: Frieder Nake, Ron Burnett, Dot Tuer, Guy Sui Durand, Michael
Century, David Tomas, Will Straw

concurrent session 2  - Rejuvenate: Film, Sound and Music in Media Arts History
(Chairs: Douglas Kahn and Sean Cubitt)
During an earlier period of new media arts discourse, time-based 
media were often considered to be “old media." While this conceit has 
been tempered, we still need to consider the sophistication and 
provocation of film, sound and music from the perspective of media 
arts history.
Speakers: Douglas Kahn, Sean Cubitt, Keith Sanborn, Scott Bukatman

20:45 h / 1:45 pm
keynote Lucia Santaella: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science and Technology

21:45  h / 2:45 pm - concurerent session 1 - Collaborative Practice/ 
Networking (History)
(Chairs: Ryszard Kluszczynski and Diana Domingues)
In a network people are working together, they share resources and 
knowledge with each other - and they compete with each other. This 
process has sped up enormously within a few decades and has reached a 
new quality/dimension. The dataflow created new economies and new 
forms of human communication.
Speakers: Ryszard Kluszczynski, Diana Domingues, Nina Czegledy, Todd Davis,
Douglas Jarvis, Jeremy Turner, Margaret Dolinsky

concurrent session 2 - What Can the History of New Media Learn from 
History of Science/Science Studies?
(Chair: Linda Henderson)
Science and technology have been an important part of the cultural 
field in the 20th century, and the history of science and science 
studies - along with the field of literature and science - offer 
important lessons for art historians writing the history of new media 
art.
Speakers: Timothy Lenoir, Linda Henderson, Timothy Druckrey,
Simon Werrett, Yann Chateigné

12:00 am / 5:00 pm - concurrent session 1 - High Art/Low Culture - 
the Future of Media Art Sciences?
(Chair: Karin Bruns)
The panel aims to bring together the methodological fields of media 
studies and media art history. Rather than limiting their focus to 
canonical works of art new studies in media art production blend 
methods and issues from art history and media sciences as well as 
from communication studies, sociology, techno sciences, art history, 
cultural and postcolonial studies.
Speakers: Karin Bruns, Yara Guasque, Andy Polaine, Claus Pias, Barbara Paul

concurrent session 2 - History of Institutions
(Chairs: Itsuo Sakane and Jasia Reichardt)
There are inevitable parallels between the development of what we now 
call media art and life at large. Excess of information leads to 
insecurity — what to believe, what to select, what to keep and what 
to discard. Sustainability, conservation, education and access are 
topics relevant to today's media art, and as relevant to it as to our 
natural resources. Now that media art has a history, how do we keep 
track of it and preserve it?
Speakers: Itsuo Sakane, Jasia Reichardt, Michael Naimark, Peter Richards,
Johannes Göbel, Andreas Broeckmann (Discussant)