[spectre] Rewire 2011 - Conf. on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

[Oliver Grau]

Rewire 2011 - Call for Proposals
The Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology

Location: Liverpool , UK (Host: FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative
Technology)
Dates: September 28 - October 1, 2011

= >> Due to large number of submissions that continue to come in
towards the last few days before the closing deadline, it was decided to
keep the submissions open until the 17th of February 2011.

submit : www.MediaArtHistory.org 

= >> 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 illuminate the global phenomena of media art. Given Liverpool*s
historic role as a center of British industry and its leadership in
the sector of digital culture, we shall explore the relationship
between the industrial revolution and the information age with respect
to media art around the world. 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:
* Media art history in relation to the biological, biomedical and
ecological sciences
* Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art, science
and technology
* How the field of science and technology studies (STS) can offer
useful models for new paradigms for art history
* 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
* Local histories and practices of media art
* Relations between the histories of media art and those of computing
and new technologies
* New paradigms and alternative discourses for media art and media art
history, such as, for example, craft, design, social media, or
cybernetics
* The relations between art, science, technology and industry, both
historically and now
* The heritage of British industry and computing and its global
contributions to media art

= >> 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.


=>> Hosted by 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.

Rewire Conference Chair:
Mike STUBBS, FACT

Rewire Conference Co-chairs:
Paul BROWN, University of Sussex
Sarah COOK, University of Sunderland/CRUMB
Colin DAVIES, Liverpool John Moores University
Charlie GERE, Lancaster University
Andy MIAH, University of the West of Scotland
Ed SHANKEN, University of Amsterdam
Laura SILLARS, FACT

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


MediaArtHistory Board (Conference Series Steering Committee)
Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver
GRAU, 
Doug KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS


= >> forwarded by::
Department for Image Science at Danube University, Austria
Media Art History conference series partner and web-platform home
www.mediaarthistory.org 
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 
(mediaarthistories group)
www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=36056054067
(rewire group)
www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=109013832492013