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Dear Spectre,<br>
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<div>On behalf of RIXC, the Centre for New Media Culture in
Riga, I would like to remind that <b>today - February 15 - is
the last day</b> to submit abstracts for Media Art Histories
2013: RENEW conference! The conference will take place in
October 8-11, 2013 in Riga, Latvia.<br>
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Please find the full call below and here: <a
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You are welcome to submit your abstracts via submission page:
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href="http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php">http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Daina Siliņa / RIXC
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<b><b>LAST DAY – call for Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
conference abstracts!</b></b><br>
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MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2013: RENEW</b> <b><br>
The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media
Art, Science and Technology</b><br>
<b>October 8 – 11, 2013, Riga, Latvia</b>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">The 5th
International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology, Renew, will be hosted by RIXC and
held in Riga, Latvia, October 8 – 11, 2013, coinciding with
the international festival for new media culture
Art+Communication. It will host three days of keynotes,
panels and poster sessions on the histories of networked
digital, electronic and technological media arts.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Confirmed
keynote speakers:</b></p>
Prof. Dr. Peter WEIBEL / ZKM,<br>
Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO / UCLA,<br>
& t.b.a.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Besides general
topics of the call, the theme of Renew, Media Art History
2013 addresses current tendencies in sustainability quests
from various perspectives. As media art is based on
increasingly out-dating technology and it is dependent on
energy (electricity) the conference will discuss sustainable
approaches towards the issues of producing, preserving and
representing media artworks – how to 'renew' them through
both – tools and histories. By focusing on networked media
arts, the Renew conference will cover a broad range of
topics to include early communication art (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 last but not
least – artistic investigations in sustainability, and
future visions of art within the convergence of information
and energy technologies.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Proposed topics:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* Histories of
networked art and media technologies</p>
* Archiving, preserving and representing new media art<br>
* Media archaeology<br>
* Paradigm shift – from new media to post-media conditions in
art<br>
* Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the
Baltics<br>
* Revising the geospatial aspects - for writing comparative
media art histories<br>
* Resilient networks and emerging 'techno-ecological' art
practices<br>
* Multifarious potential of expression in media art – 'new
imagery' of our times
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>EXTENDED
DEADLINE for abstracts: February 15, 2013.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Notification of
acceptance will be announced by March 25, 2013.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Individual
proposals should consist of a 250-word abstract with title
and brief biography/CV.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Proposals and
inquiries regarding submissions should be made on<a
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href="http://www.mediaarthistory.org/">
www.mediaarthistory.org</a> web-site. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Call for papers
SUBMISSION PAGE:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php">http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php</a>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><br>
* * *</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Selected papers
from the conference will be published in Acoustic Space and
other venues. Founded in 1998 by E-Lab as artistic journal
for sound art, networked audio experiments and new media
culture, since 2007 Acoustic Space comes out as
peer-reviewed journal for transdisciplinary research on art,
science, technology and society, published by RIXC & Art
Research Lab of Liepaja University.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">The conference will
be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including
the Art+Communication festival, with a thematically related
media art exhibition, experimental film and video screening
programme, live performances, concerts and workshops.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>MAH 2013 Renew
Conference Chairs:</b> Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Honorary Board:</b>
Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS,
Robert ADRIAN</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Renew Conference
Advisory Board:</b> Eric KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke
ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE,
Mark TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH,
Edward SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Frieder
NAKE</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>MAH Conference
Series Board:</b> Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko
KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN,
Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><a
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