[spectre] CFP Rewire 2011, conference on the histories of media art, science and technology

[Sarah Cook]

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 Dept. for Image Science, Danube University Krems.

Following the success of Media Art History 2005 Re:fresh in Banff,  
Media Art History 2007 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 2009  
Re:live in Melbourne, Media Art History 2011 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
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