[Leonardo/ISAST Network] place 2007 - Call for Proposals
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re:place 2007
Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,
Science and Technology
15 - 18 November 2007
Berlin, Germany
Leonardo is pleased to partner on re:place 2007: The Second
International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and
Technology. Leonardo is publishing a book in the Leonardo Book Series
and a series of articles in the Leonardo Journal that grew out of
Refresh! the first conference which was also co-sponsored by Leonardo.
We hope that this series of conferences will help build historical
scholarship in the field as well as a place where pioneers and young
practitioners can meet.
INTRODUCTION
re:place 2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories of
Media, Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin from 15
- 18 November 2007 as a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in
cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This conference is a
sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series, chaired by Oliver Grau
and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, Leonardo, and Banff New
Media Institute, and held at the Banff Center in Canada in September
2005, which brought together several hundred artists, scientists,
researchers, curators and theoreticians of different disciplines.
re:place 2007 will be an international forum for the presentation and
the discussion of exemplary approaches to the rapport between art,
media, science and technology. With the title, 're:place', we propose
a thematic focus on locatedness and the migration of knowledge and
knowledge production in the interdisciplinary contexts of art,
historiography, science and technology.
The re:place 2007 conference will be devoted to examining the manifold
connections between art, science and technology, connections which
have come into view more sharply through the growing attention to
media art and its histories over the past years. It will address
historical contexts and artistic explorations of new technologies as
well as the historical and contemporary research into the mutual
influences between artistic work, scientific research and
technological developments. This research concerns such diverse fields
as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, nano-technology,
and bio-technology, as well as investigations in the humanities
including art history, visual culture, musicology, comparative
literature, media archaeology, media theory, science studies, and
sociology.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include competitively selected,
peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations, poster sessions,
as well as a small number of invited speakers. Several Keynote
Lectures, by internationally renowned, outstanding theoreticians and
artists, will deliberate on the central themes of the conference.
The conference will also include dedicated forum sessions for
participants to engage in more open-ended discussion and debate on
relevant issues and questions.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
re:place 2007 welcomes contributions from established as well as from
emerging researchers in diverse fields. The conference will be of
interest to those working in, but not limited to, the following areas:
art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, film and
media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, philosophy,
history, gender studies, human-computer interaction, contemporary art,
musicology, sound studies, anthropology, sociology, geography,
science, technology and society studies, history of science, and
history of technology.
We are especially keen on empirical, conceptual, and historical
contributions that exemplify and expand the diverse methodological and
thematic concerns of this extended interdisciplinary area. These might
include contributions to:
- institutional histories of centers, sites, or events that have
helped to concretize and engender the intersections between media,
art, science and technology. Some broad areas could be: experimental
arts spaces, collaborative research labs, significant exhibitions, etc.
- 'place studies' that highlight significant locations or situations
where such interdisciplinary intersections or significant historical
episodes have occurred. A few examples might be: 'Tesla in Budapest',
'Flusser in Brazil', USSR in the 1920s, 'Japan between 1950s-1970s,' etc.
- historiographical issues, methods, and debates that pose critical
questions in the formulation of the histories of the 'media arts'.
These might include: archaeology, genealogy or variantology as
methodological tools, bridging the divide between art and media
history, sociologies of interactivity, etc.
- theoretical frameworks from various philosophical and disciplinary
positions. Topics might include the exemplary role of film studies or
musicology for the study of media arts, or the significance of
cultural specificities and location in media and technologies, etc.
- the migration of knowledges and practices from different contexts,
whether disciplinary, institutional, geographical or cultural. Topics
might include: the role of migrant artists in the development of new
discourses and practices; the movement and adoption of disciplinary
ideas from science into art contexts or vice versa, etc.
SUBMISSIONS
A dedicated website and online paper submission system will be ready
for submissions from 1st December 2006. Abstracts of proposals, panel
presentations and posters will have to be submitted in either Text,
RTF, Word or PDF formats.
The DEADLINE for submissions will be 15 January 2007.
INFORMATION about the submission process and general information can
be found at: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace
re:place 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in
cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.
Conference partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual Art at
Danube University Krems' Center for Image Science, Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute Media.Art.Research, Forum Goethe Institut, and others.
Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA)
re:place 2007 is part of the Leonardo Art History special project.
Find out more about Leonardo Art History projects and activities:
http://leonardo.info/isast/events/mediarthistory.html
Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's
projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info
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