[spectre] CALL FOR PROPOSALS *RE-CREATE 2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth international conference on the histories of Media, Art Science and Technology*

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  Subject: MAH Call for Proposals
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*CALL FOR PROPOSALS *- APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS (site version française)
<http://www.mediaarthistory.org/appel-a-communications>


*RE-CREATE 2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth international conference on
the histories of Media, Art Science and Technology*


Hexagram, Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal in
collaboration with Media at McGill and CIRMMT- McGill Montréal, Canada. 5-8
November 2015 Re-Create CFP Submission Site
<http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/recreate/openconf.php>


Re-Create 2015, the sixth international Conference on the Histories of
Media, Art Science and Technology will mark the 10th Anniversary of the Re
conference series. Re-Create 2015 is devoted to exploring what theories,
methodologies and techniques can be used to understand past, present and
indeed, future paradigms of creative material practice involving
technologies within research contexts from a historical and critical point
of view.


The title Re-Create is an abbreviation for the term ?research-creation?,
part of a growing international movement which goes by many names:
?practice-led research,? ?research-led practice,? and ?artistic research,?
among others.


While the link between research and practice seems to be a new horizon, the
media-based arts have long been at the intersection of the humanities,
sciences, and engineering and present a critical site in which to take up
the changing relationships between knowledge, power, and economy.


Research normally signifies modes of acquiring new knowledge that
coherently and systematically advance a field and is grounded and validated
by both social frameworks (peers) and existing bodies of knowledge.
Similarly, research in conjunction with material practice demands that
making be historically, theoretically and methodologically framed and
valorized.


Re-Create 2015 seeks to interrogate the historical entanglement of research
and making within a wide and diverse set of international sites,
disciplines and contexts: from non-institutional creative research
initiatives driven by artists and designers in the streets, to the
labyrinths of industry funded research labs and universities. From unknown
or ignored histories of research-based practices in Latin America, Asia and
Indigenous communities to government funded initiatives, the conference
will thus critically explore the ongoing and productive tensions between
theory, method and making in the histories of media, art, science and
technology.


Potential contributors to the conference should focus thematic panel
sessions or individual papers on one of the following areas of
concentration:

LAB STUDIES : Studies on how artists and designers have historically worked
in industry, universities and collective, grass roots-based research
environments

CURATORIAL ACTIONS AND PRACTICES : How have research paradigms historically
entered into curatorial practices and how have they been framed, exhibited
and articulated?

ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH : Historical profiles of non-institutionally
based research-driven explorations.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS : How have theoretical paradigms in media, art,
science and technology historically evolved structuralism in the 1960s or
media studies to current work in affect theory, media archaeology, critical
post-humanist approaches derived from STS, appropriation and remix
aesthetics, feminist new materialism, queer and postcolonial studies,
enactive and distributed cognition?

METHODOLOGIES : What can methodological tools emerging from the human and
social sciences like ethnography, historiography, archaeology, genealogy
and other qualitative techniques provide to the historical and critical
positioning of practice?

INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERSECTIONS AND IMPACTS : Exploration of the formation
and rise of interdisciplinary research fields (image science, sound
studies, science studies, sensory studies, environmental studies) and their
impact on the construction of media art histories.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES : What is the historical relationship between the
digital humanities and the histories of media, art, science and technology?

SITES: How historically have sites of research and practice in media art,
science and technology evolved outside of the predominant spheres of Europe
and North America and what forms have they taken?


*CONFERENCE PROGRAM *

The conference program will include competitively selected peer-reviewed
individual papers, panel presentations and poster sessions as well as a
number of keynotes and invited speakers and a parallel satellite program of
events with Hexagram partners including core cultural institutions in
Montreal. In the interest of maintaining a concentrated conference program,
there will be a series of plenary sessions as well as accompanying poster
sessions. Each of the plenaries as well as the poster sessions will mix
together scholars and practitioners representing different cultural
perspectives. The conference will be held in English and French, with live
translation.


*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*

Re-Create 2015 welcomes contributions from researchers, artists, designers,
scholars and technologists working across diverse disciplines, sites and
practices. We particularly encourage scholars and creators from
international contexts outside of Europe and North America.


*ABOUT THE CONTEXT AND THE HOST*

The conference will take place in Montreal hosted by Hexagram, the
international network for media, art, design and digital culture (
http://hexagram.ca). It is the largest network of its kind in Canada and
one of the largest internationally dedicated to research-led creative
practices. Ten years after the inaugural Re-Fresh conference at the Banff
New Media Institute in 2005, the return of the conference to Canada and
specifically to Quebec, offers a pertinent context to address the evolution
of research in the histories of media, art, science and technology (
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series).The conference will be held
across the two core Hexagram sites at Concordia University and the
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The venues are within walking
distance from each other, centrally located in vibrant, downtown Montreal ?
the digital arts and culture capital of North America.


*SUBMISSIONS*

250 word abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be
submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats. Texts can be submitted
in French and in English. The DEADLINE for submissions is December 7, 2014.
Submitters will be informed by mid February 2015. INFORMATION about the
submission process and general information can be found at: Re-Create
Submission Site <http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/recreate/openconf.php>



Conference partners include Media at McGill, CIRMMT-McGill, Cinémathèque
québécoise, DHC-Art, Elektra/ACREQ, Goethe-Institut Montreal and others to
be announced.


Conference chairs and Hexagram Co-Directors: Chris Salter, artist,
Concordia University Research Chair and Associate Professor, Design and
Computation Arts, Concordia University (QC/CA/US/DE) and Gisèle Trudel
(QC/CA), artist and professor, École des arts visuels et médiatiques,
Université du Québec à Montréal.


Re-Create Local Organizing Committee: Thierry BARDINI, Barbara CLAUSEN,
Ricardo DAL FARRA, Jean DUBOIS, Jean GAGNON, Alice JIM, Jason LEWIS,
Jonathan LESSARD, Louise POISSANT, Chris SALTER, Cheryl SIM, Jonathan
STERNE, Alain THIBAULT, Gisele TRUDEL, Marcelo WANDERLEY Re-Create 2015


International Advisory Board: Marie-Luise ANGERER, Monika BAKKE, Samuel
BIANCHINI, Georgina BORN, Andreas BROECKMANN, Annick BUREAUD, Michael
CENTURY, Joel CHADABE, Dooeun CHOI, Ian CLOTHIER, Sarah COOK, Nina
CZEGLEDY, Sara DIAMOND, Diane DOMINGUES, Jean Paul FOURMENTRAUX, Sébastien
GENVO, Orit HALPERN, Jens HAUSER, Denisa KERA, Felipe César LONDONO,
Natalie LOVELESS, Glenn LOWRY, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Roger MALINA, Sally
Jane NORMAN, Nicolas NOVA, Jussi PARIKKA, Christiane PAUL, Simon PENNY,
Andrew PICKERING, Sundar SARRUKAI, Yukiko SHIKATA, Michel VAN DARTEL, ZHANG
GA, Ionat ZURR


MAH Honorary Board: Douglas DAVIS, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter
WEIBEL


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