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PROPOSALS </b>- <a
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DEADLINE for submissions is December 7, 2014<br>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Tahoma"><b>RE-CREATE
2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth international conference
on the histories of Media, Art Science and Technology</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">Hexagram,
Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal in
collaboration with Media@McGill and CIRMMT- McGill Montréal,
Canada. 5-8 November 2015 <a
href="http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/recreate/openconf.php">Re-Create
CFP Submission Site</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">Potential
contributors to the conference should focus thematic panel
sessions or individual papers on one of the following areas of
concentration:</p>
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style="text-decoration:underline">LAB STUDIES</span> : Studies
on how artists and designers have historically worked in
industry, universities and collective, grass roots-based
research environments</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">CURATORIAL ACTIONS AND
PRACTICES</span> : How have research paradigms historically
entered into curatorial practices and how have they been framed,
exhibited and articulated?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH</span>
: Historical profiles of non-institutionally based
research-driven explorations.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS</span>
: 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?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">METHODOLOGIES</span> : 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?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">INTERDISCIPLINARY
INTERSECTIONS AND IMPACTS</span> : 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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">DIGITAL HUMANITIES</span> :
What is the historical relationship between the digital
humanities and the histories of media, art, science and
technology?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><span
style="text-decoration:underline">SITES</span>: 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?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><b>CONFERENCE
PROGRAM </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><b>CALL
FOR PROPOSALS</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><b>ABOUT
THE CONTEXT AND THE HOST</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">The
conference will take place in Montreal hosted by Hexagram, the
international network for media, art, design and digital culture
(<a href="http://hexagram.ca">http://hexagram.ca</a>). 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 (<a
href="http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series">http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series</a>).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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma"><b>SUBMISSIONS</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma">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: <a
href="http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/recreate/openconf.php">Re-Create
Submission Site</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Tahoma">Conference
partners include Media@McGill, CIRMMT-McGill, Cinémathèque
québécoise, DHC-Art, Elektra/ACREQ, Goethe-Institut Montreal and
others to be announced.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Tahoma">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Tahoma">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</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Tahoma">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, Zhang GA, 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, Ionat ZURR </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:Tahoma">MAH
Honorary Board: Douglas DAVIS, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE,
Peter WEIBEL <br>
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MAH Conference Series Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda
HENDERSON, Erkki HUHTAMO, Douglas KAHN, Martin KEMP, Machiko
KUSAHARA, Tim LENOIR, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Paul THOMAS</p>
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