[Sigvis-l] REFRESH! Histories of Media Art: Program and Registration

[Pete Otis]

BANFF NEW MEDIA INSTITUTE,
DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART
and LEONARDO/ISAST produce :


REFRESH!
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada


CONFERENCE WEB SITE :  www.MediaArtHistory.org (full program with abstracts available)
REGISTRATION:   www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/events/refresh/ (attendence place still available)


Thu, 29 Sept. 05

 
KEYNOTE
EDMOND COUCHOT: Towards the Autonomous Image

I.  MEDIAARTHISTORIES : TIMES AND LANDSCAPES I
GUNALAN NADARAJAN: Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
LOUISE POISSANT: From Material to Medium
OLIVER GRAU: REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA! Virtual Art of the 19th century and Its future
MARIO CARPO: The Demise of the Identicals Architectural Standardization in the Age of Digital Reproducibility

II.  METHODOLOGIES
MARK HANSEN: tba
ERKKI HUHTAMO: Media Arts and Media Archaeology - Collision or Convergence
IRINA ARISTARKHOVA: Excavating Mother, Excavating Cyborg
ANDREAS BROECKMANN: Image, Process, Performance, Machine, Paradigms of Media Art Theory

III.  IMAGE SCIENCE AND 'REPRESENTATION': FROM A COGNITIVE POINT OF VIEW
BARBARA STAFFORD: Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental  Representation
KRISTIN VEEL: Once Upon a Time There Was a DatabaseSDatabase and Narrative from a Cognitive (...)
CHRISTINE ROSS: Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts, (Canada)
PHILLIP THURTLE & CLAUDIA X. VALDES: Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice
CHRISTOPHER SALTER: The Performative Turn in New Media - A Critical History
TIM CLARK: Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical Examination of the "The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" and the Incorporation of "The Argument from Human Creativity

IV.  ART AS RESEARCH / ARTISTS AS INVENTORS
DIETER DANIELS: Art as Research / Artists as Inventors
CHRIS MEIGH-ANDREWS: Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor
FRED TURNER: Where Cybernetics Met The Counterculture: The Us Company
SIMON PENNY: Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork
CORNELIUS BORCK: Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception

V.  MEDIAARTHISTORIES: TIMES AND LANDSCAPES II
EDWARD SHANKEN: Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art? 
CHARLIE GERE: Early British Computer Art: the Findings of the CACHe Project
GRANT TAYLOR: How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art
DARKO FRITZ & MARGIT ROSEN: Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s
SYLVIE LACERTE: Experiments in Art and Technology: a Gap to Fill in Art History's Recent Chronicles
ANNE COLLINS GOODYEAR: Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971
CAROLINE LANGILL: Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of Early Electronic Art
MARIA FERNANDEZ: Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath



Fri, 30 Sept. 05

VI.   COLLECTING; PRESERVING AND ARCHIVING THE MEDIA ARTS 
JEAN GAGNON: The Daniel Langlois Foundation's Research and Documentation Centre (CR+D) : Building and Preserving Tools and Resources on Media Arts
CHRISTIANE PAUL: The Myth of Immateriality - Presenting & Preserving New Media 
PETER WEIBEL: The Migration and Preservation of Media
JON IPPOLITO: Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?

VII.  DATABASE / NEW SCIENTIFIC TOOLS
RUDOLF FRIELING: 'Media Art Net': Database and Context
CHRISTIAN BERNDT: Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation
SANDRA FAUCONNIER: V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of Media Art
ALAIN DEPOCAS: tba.
ANNE-MARIE DUGUET: tba.
RICHARD RINEHART: A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and Variable Media Art

VIII.  POP/ MASS/ SOCIETY
MACHIKO KUSAHARA: Technology as Art: 'Device Art' as a New Japanese Paradigm
ANDREAS LANGE: Archiving of Computer Games
KAREN KEIFER-BOYD: Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century
TOBEY CROCKETT: An Aesthetics of Play - or, How to Appreciate Interactive Fun
MARK TRIBE: Open Source Culture

RUDOLF ARNHEIM LECTURE
SARAT MAHARAJ: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and 'Other' Ways of Knowing


Sat, 1 Oct. 05 

IX.  CROSS-CULTURE - GLOBAL ART
SARA DIAMOND: Cross Culture - Global Art
MANRAY HSU: From TEchno-Utopia to Network Cosmopolitanism: On the Convergence between New Media Art and Contemporary Art
MARKO STAMENKOVIC: New Media Art in Postsocialist Conditions
SHEILA PETTY: CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo's Ghosting
MARY LEIGH MORBEY: From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Musea Websites
THOMAS RICCIO: World Narrative: The Creation of a New ?Place?
APARNA SHARMA: Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation
LAURA MARKS: Latent Rhythm: Algorithmic Performativity in Media Art and Islamic Calligraphy

X.  CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS
FRIEDER NAKE: Events of Significance
RON BURNETT: Is New Media New?
DOT TUER: Transculturation and New Media History
GUY SUI DURAND: tba.
WILL STRAW: Grounded Materialities: Who Isn't Interdisciplinary?
DAVID TOMAS: Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices
MICHAEL CENTURY: New Media in an Adhocracy

XI.  REJUVINATE : FILM; SOUND AND MUSIC IN THE MEDIA ARTS HISTORY
DOUGLAS KAHN: Music: The First Digital Art
SEAN CUBITT: tba.
KEITH SANBORN: Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic
SCOTT BUKATMAN: Comics and the Critique of Chronophotography, or "He Never Knew When It Was Coming!"

KEYNOTE 
LUCIA SANTAELLA: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science, and Technology

XII.  COLABORATIVE PRACTICE / NETWORKING (HISTORY)
RYSZARD KLUSZCZYNSKI: RE-Writing the History of Modern Art: How Hypermedia Change Our Vision of the Past (the case of artistic collaboration)
DIANA DOMINGUES, ELISEO REATEGUI: Collaborative Transdisciplinary Practices for Complex Systems in Interactive and Immersive Art
NINA CZEGLEDY: Cross Cultural Interdisciplinary Initiatives
TODD DAVIS, DOUGLAS JARVIS, JEREMY TURNER: SAT-TEL-COMP - (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional Artist Networks Through the Connectivity of (technological) Telecommunications Devices and Human Dialogue
MARGARET DOLINSKY: CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality Across High Speed Networks

XIII.  WHAT CAN THE HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA LEARN 
FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE/SCIENCE STUDIES ?
TIMOTHY LENOIR: Making Studies in New Media Critical
MICHAEL PUNT: History of Science, Technology and Entertainment at the Turn of the 19th Century
LINDA HENDERSON: 'The Fourth Dimension,' the History of Science, and New Media
TIMOTHY DRUCKREY: Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History
SIMON WERRETT: Logics of Innovation: Science Studies and New Media Approaches Compared
YANN CHATEIGNÉ: The Fourth Memory: Beyond Information Art in Hypertechnological Times

XIV.   HIGH ART / LOW CULTURE - THE FUTURE OF MEDIA ART SCIENCES? 
KARIN BRUNS: High Art / Low Culture - the Future of Media Art Sciences?
YARA GUASQUE: Immersive and Participative Environments
ANDY POLAINE: Lowbrow, High Art. Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand Interactivity
CLAUS PIAS: Zombies of the Revolution
BARBARA PAUL: tba

XV.  HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS
ITSUO SAKANE: On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology - Toward the Cultural Evolution of Human-Being
JASIA REICHARDT: The Computer in Art
MICHAEL NAIMARK: Dynamics of Sustainability
PETER RICHARDS: tba.
JOHANNES GOEBEL: tba.
ANDREAS BROECKMANN: discussant


POSTER SESSION with:
KIRSTY ROBERTSON, CHARLOTTE FROST, GENCO GULAN, ATTEQA MALIK, MICHAEL SALMOND, MARIA VICTORIA GUGLIETTI, AYESHA HAMEED, CHRISTOPH KLUETSCH, JOHN MAXWELL, TIM JACKSON, SYLVIA GRACE BORDA & ALICE MING WAI  JIM, ARTUR MATUCK, MAUREEN NAPPI, MARTIN RIESER, JAN ALTMANN, FRANCES DYSON, FRANCK  ANCEL, CAROLINE BERNARD, JEAN-LOUIS BOISSIER, JEAN-LUC MARCHINA, DANIEL PINKAS, COUNTY TAM,  MARA TRAUMANE and SUSANNE SCHUMACHER

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