[spectre] CONF: New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Hava Aldouby <havaal at openu.ac.il>
Date: Oct 10, 2016
Subject: CONF: New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall), 
Ra’anana, Israel, November 23, 2016

New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights
Symposium

Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus 
of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its 
appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a 
growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition 
of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and 
software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote 
from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and 
scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face losing 
an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial digital culture".

Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of 
notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html), initiated by Prof. 
Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art 
Histories.

The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel. 
Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing 
various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts. 
The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality 
("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality 
Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live 
performance by Shaul Tzemach.

Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, 
Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel, havaal at openu.ac.il
           PROGRAM

9:30-10:00 Gathering

10:00-10:30         Greetings and Welcome Address
Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel
Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language
and the Arts, The Open University of Israel
              10:30-11:30         Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department 
of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University 
of Israel

Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer 
School of Communication, IDC Herzliya
Time Body Study / Performative Experiment
  11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
               11:45-13:00 Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department 
of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University 
of Israel

Keynote Address
Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University, 
Krems, Austria
Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image 
Science
  13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
            14:00-15:00         Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New 
Media and Head of the Internet Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reaching Out and Being Moved: Embodied Aesthetics, Moral Affordances, 
and the Graphical User Interface

Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon 
Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of 
Engineering, Design and Art
Sensoring Art: The Art Object in the IoT (Internet of Things) Era
  15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
  15:15-16:15 Chair: Prof. Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, 
Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel

Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office, 
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Performing the Digital Museum

Dr. Yael Eylat Van Essen, Faculty of Design, Holon Institute of 
Technology; Tel Aviv University
Between the Real and the Virtual: Rethinking the Museum
  16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
               16:30-17:30 Chair: Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & 
Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of 
Software Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering Design and Art

Ronen Leibman, Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and 
Design, Jerusalem
 From Video Art to Video Games and Back

Dr. Avi Rozen, New Media Artist and Independent Scholar
Cyberspace: Toward a Minor Art

Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The 
Open University of Israel
Concluding Remarks
           17:30-18:00 | Live Performance
Shaul Tzemach, Interdisciplinary Artist
Light Sense vE
           Full program at: 
http://www.publicators.com/app/dms.asp?ms_id=17018

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16). In: H-ArtHist, Oct 
10, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/13897>.

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