[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Refresh! conference, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2005

[Leonardo/ISAST]

To: Leonardo Network
From: Roger Malina

We are pleased to announce the final plans and program for the Refresh!
conference, co-sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST.
 
Call to all interested to attend the first Refresh! conference on the
Histories of the New Media Arts, Sciences and Technologies which will be
held at the Banff New Media Institute.

Conference dates: 
September 28 – October 1, 2005

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, Banff New Media Institute,
the Database for Virtual Art, 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.

Selected speakers include:
Oliver Grau: Refresh! Conference Director; Lecturer in Art History at
Humboldt University, Berlin; Visiting Professor at the Kunst Universaet
Linz; Lucia Santanella, Professor of Communication and Semiotics, São Paulo
Catholic University, Brazil; and Edmond Couchot: Theoretician, and Emeritus
Professor, the Université de  Paris.

For more information about Refresh!, the final program and to register,
please visit: http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/events/refresh/

Leonardo will be publishing a selection of papers. This collaboration is
part of the Leonardo Pionniers and Pathbreakers Art History Project. For
more details see http://www.olats.org