[spectre] Media Art Histories Conference 2013 in Riga!

[Oliver Grau]

MEDIA ART HISTORIES Conference 2013 in Riga!

After Liverpool this Sept/Oct 2011, Melbourne 2009, Berlin 2007 and
Banff 2005, the Media Art Histories board has decided to grant the next
conference to RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Latvia. The
successful host was chosen from a variety of applications from different
continents answering the international call for proposals and the board
is pleased that the 5th conference will take place in the heart of the
Baltic region.

MAH Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda HENDERSON, Erkki HUHTAMO,
Machiko KUSAHARA, Doug KAHN, Martin KEMP, Tim LENOIR, Gunalan NADARAJAN
and Paul THOMAS


Renew 2013 will address current tendencies in sustainability quests from
various perspectives. As media art is based on increasingly aging
technology and is dependent on energy (electricity) the conference will
discuss how sustainability approach can be applied to the issues of
producing, preserving and representing the media artworks * how to renew
them. By focusing on practices and histories of networked media arts,
Renew will cover abroad range of topics to include early communication
arts (mail, fax, radio,satellite, etc.), net.art and net.radio, open
source and network culture, locative media and wireless communities,
hybrid networks and electromagnetic art, and at last but not least *
artistic investigations of renewable energy, and future visions of art
within converged information and energy networks.  



Original MISSION STATEMENT Media Art Histories Conference Series (2004):

Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture,
this conference series 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. Numerous individuals and
institutions collaborate to produce the international art history
conference series covering art and new media, art and technology,
art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to
contemporary art.

written by: Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Annick BUREAUD, Dieter DANIELS, Sara
DIAMOND, Diana DOMINGUES, Jean GAGNON, Oliver GRAU, Machiko KUSAHARA,
Roger MALINA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Manrai HSU, Ryszard KLUSZCYNSKI, Edward
SHANKEN
 
www.mediaarthistories.org