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[Andreas Horbelt]

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> REFRESH!
>  FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
>  THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
>
>  September 28 - October 2, 2005 at Banff New Media Institute, Canada
>
>
>  "The technology of the modern media has produced new possibilities of
>  interaction...
>  What is needed is a wider view encompassing the coming rewards in the 
> context
>  of the treasures left us by the past experiences, possessions, and 
> insights."
>  (Rudolf Arnheim, Summer 2000)
>
>  Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, 
> this
>  Conference 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. Leonardo/ISAST, the Database for 
> Virtual
>  Art, Banff New Media Institute, and UNESCO DigiArts are collaborating 
> to
>  produce the first international art history conference covering art 
> and new
>  media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of
>  media as pertinent to contemporary art.
>
>
>  MEDIA ART HISTORIES
>
>  After photography, film, video, and the little known media art 
> history of
>  the 1960s-80s, today media artists are active in a wide range of 
> digital
>  areas (including interactive, genetic, and telematic art). Even in 
> robotics
>  and nanotechnology, artists design and conduct experiments. This 
> dynamic
>  process has triggered intense discussion about images in the 
> disciplines of
>  art history, media studies, and neighboring cultural disciplines. The 
> Media
>  Art History Project offers a basis for attempting an evolutionary 
> history
>  of the audiovisual media, from the laterna magica to the panorama,
>  phantasmagoria, film, and the virtual art of recent decades. It is an
>  evolution with breaks and detours; however, all its stages are
>  distinguished by a close relationship between art, science, and 
> technology.
>
>  Refresh! will discuss questio! ns of historiography, methodology and 
> the role
>  of institutions of media art. The Conference will contain key debates 
> about
>  the function of inventions, artistic practice in collaborative 
> networks,
>  the prominent role of sound during the last decades and will 
> emphasize the
>  importance of intercultural and pop culture themes in the Histories of
>  Media Art. Readings of new media art histories vary richly depending 
> on
>  cultural contexts. This event calls upon scholarship from a strongly
>  international perspective.
>
>  Therefore Refresh! will represent and address the wide array of 
> disciplines
>  involved in the emerging field of Media Art. Beside Art History these
>  include the Histories of Sciences and Technologies , Film-, Sound-, 
> Media-,
>  Visual and Theatre Studies, Architecture, Visual Psychology, just to 
> name a
>  few.
>
>
>  DOCUMENTATION - CURATING - COLLECTION
>
>  Although the popularity of media art exhibited at exhibitions and art
>  ! festivals is growing among the public and increasingly influences 
> theory
>  debates, with few exceptions museums and galleries have neglected to
>  systematically collect this present-day art, to preserve it and to 
> demand
>  appropriate conservatory measures. Thus, several decades of 
> international
>  media art is in danger of being lost to the history of collecting and 
> to
>  academic disciplines such as art history. This gap will have 
> far-reaching
> consequences; therefore, the conference will also discuss the
>  documentation, collection, archiving and preservation of media art. 
> What
>  kind of international networks must be created to advance appropriate
>  policies for collection and conservation? What kind of new 
> technologies do
>  we need to optimize research efforts and information exchange?
>
>
>  MAILING LIST
>  LEONARDO, journal of the International Society for the Arts, 
> Sciences, and
>  Technology, has documented for the past thirty-seven years the 
> pioneering
>  work of artists who work in and with new media. Together with 
> Leonardo Book
>  Series and LEA Electronic Journal, the journal is published by the MIT
>  Press. For further information about the forthcoming conference and 
> the
>  long-term LEONARDO Media Art History Project, please email to join:
>  banffleoarthistconfinfo-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
>
>
>  CONFERENCE
>  Held at The Banff Centre, featuring lectures by invited speakers as 
> well as
>  others selected by a jury from a call for papers, the main event will 
> be
>  followed by a two-day summit meeting (October 1-2, 2005) for in-depth
>  dialogues and international project initiation.
>  The first call for papers will be in late Summer 2004. In particular, 
> young
>  postgraduates in the research areas of: art history and new media, 
> art and
>  technology, the interaction of art and science, and media history, are
>  encouraged to submit for the following panels:
>
>
>  MEDIA ART HISTORIES
>  Times and Landscapes
>  Methodologies
>  Invention
>  Collaborative Practice
>  Pop Mass Society
>  Cross-Culture, Global Art
>
>  ART HISTORY AS IMAGE SCIENCE
>  Film, Sound, Media Art & Performance
>  History of Sciences & Media Art
>  Media & Visual Studies
>
>  DOCUMENTATION - CURATING - COLLECTION - RIGHTS
>  New Scientific Tools
>  History of Institutions
>
>
>
>  HONORARY BOARD
>  Rudolf ARNHEIM; Frank POPPER; Jasia REICHARDT; Itsuo SAKANE, Walter 
> ZANINI
>
>  ADVISORY BOARD
>  Hans BELTING, Karlsruhe; Andreas BROECKMANN, Berlin; Karin BRUNS, 
> Linz;
>  Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Dieter DANIELS, Leipzig; Diana DOMINGUES, 
> Caxias do
>  Sul; Felice FRANKEL, Boston; Jean GAGNON, Montreal; Thomas GUNNING,
>  Chicago; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Manrai HSU, Taipei; Erkki 
> HUHTAMO, Los
>  Angeles; ¡ngel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI, Lodz; 
> Machiko
>  KUSAHARA, Tokyo; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Gunalan NADARAJAN, 
> Singapore;
>  Eduard SHANKEN, Durham;! Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, 
> New
>  York; Louise POISSANT, Montreal; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Tereza WAGNER,
>  Paris; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco
>
>
>  BANFF
>  Sara DIAMOND, Director of Research and Artistic Director of BNMI 
> (Local Chair)
>  Susan KENNARD, Executive Producer of BNMI (Organisation)
> www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
>
>
>  LEONARDO
>  Annick BUREAUD, Director Leonardo Pioneers and
>  Pathbreakers Art History Project, Leonardo/OLATS
> www.olats.org
>
>  PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
>  Chair: Roger F MALINA, Chair Leonardo/ISAST
> www.leonardo.info
>
>
>  CONFERENCE DIRECTOR & ORGANISATION
>
>  Oliver GRAU, Director Immersive Art & Database of V! irtual Art
>  Humboldt University Berlin
> http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
>
>
>  SUPPORTED BY:
>  LEONARDO, GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION, UNESCO DIGIARTS, VILLA VIGONI
>
>
>
>
> The problem with being a genius is that you spend a lot of time 
> sitting around doing nothing.
> --Gertrude Stein
>