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*LIVE STREAMING*
*Refresh!*  1st International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, 
Science and Technology
 
" 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. Banff New Media 
Institute, the Database for Virtual Art and Leonardo/ISAST 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. "

www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/


Venue:
September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
CONFERENCE PROGRAM with streaming times  www.MediaArtHistory.org
 
Viewing:
Since we have only a few places left to attend the conference in Banff 
we are web streaming live all keynotes, sessions and discussions from 
the site. Viewing the sessions in groups at Universities, Libraries, and 
Art Centers is encouraged, in order to facilitate local dialogue.  Web 
streaming is available in Quick time and Windows Media. For optimal 
viewing on larger screens and for in-screen viewing of power point 
presentations, prior download of Windows Media is recommended.
 
 
Program:
29. September 05

GMT 15:30 h /  CANADA 8:30 am
keynote Edmond Couchot: Towards the Autonomous Image

16:30h / 9:30 am - opening plenary - MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes 1
(Chairs: Oliver Grau and Gunalan Nadarajan )
After photography, film, video, and the little known media art history 
of the 1960s-80s, today media artists are active in a wide range of 
digital areas (including interactive, genetic, telematic and nanoart). 
Media Art History offers a basis for attempting an evolutionary history 
of the audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the Panorama, 
Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art of recent decades. This panel 
tries to clarify, if and how varieties of Media Art have been splitting 
up during the last decades. It examines also how far back Media Art 
reaches as a historical category within the history of Art, Science and 
Technology. This session will offer a first overview about the visible 
influence of media art on all fields of art.

Speakers:  Gunalan Nadarajan, Luise Poissant, Oliver Grau, Mario Carpo

17:30h / 11:30 am - plenary Methodologies
(Chair: Mark Hansen and Erkki Huhtamo)
Critical overview of which methods art history has been using during the 
past to approach media art.
Speakers: Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Irina Aristarkhova, Andreas Broeckmann

21:10h / 2:10 pm - plenary - Image Science and Representation: From a 
Cognitive Point of View
(Chair: Barbara Stafford)
Although much recent scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences 
has been "body-minded" this research has yet to grapple with a major 
problem familiar to contemporary cognitive scientists and neuro 
scientists. How do we reconcile a top-down, functional view of cognition 
with a view of human beings as elements of a culturally shaped 
biological world? Historical as well as elusive electronic media from 
the vantage of an embodied and distributed brain.
Speakers: Barbara Stafford, Kristin Veel, Christine Ross, Phillip Thurtle &
Claudia X. Valdes, Christopher Salter, Tim Clark

12:25 h / 4:25 pm - concurrent session 1 - Art as Research / Artists as 
Inventors
(Chair: Dieter Daniels)
Do "innovations" and "inventions" in the field of art differ from those 
in the field of technology and science? Have artists contributed 
anything "new" to those fields of research?
Speakers: Dieter Daniels, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Fred Turner, Simon Penny,
Cornelius Borck

concurrent session 2 - MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes 2
(Chairs: Edward Shanken and Charlie Gere)
Although there has been important scholarship on intersections between 
art and technology, there is no comprehensive technological history of 
art (as there are feminist and Marxist histories of art, for example.) 
Canonical histories of art fail to sufficiently address the 
inter-relatedness of developments in science, technology, and art.
Speakers: Edward Shanken, Charlie Gere, Grant Taylor, Darko Fritz & Margit
Rosen, Sylvie Lacerte, Anne Collins Goodyear, Caroline Langill, Maria
Fernandez

30. September 05

GMT 15:45 h / 8:45 am - plenary Collecting, Preserving and Archiving the 
Media Arts
(Chair: Jean Gagnon)
Collections grow because of different influences such as art dealers, 
the art market, curators and currents in the international contemporary 
art scene. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration 
of media art works and of new media in these collections?
Speakers: Jean Gagnon, Christiane Paul, Peter Weibel, Jon Ippolito

18:00 h / 11:00 am - concurrent session 1 - Database/New Scientific Tools
(Chairs: Rudolf Frieling and Oliver Grau)
Accessing and browsing the immense amount of data produced by 
individuals, institutions, and archives has become a key question to our 
information society. In which way can new scientific tools of 
structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our 
understanding of semantics?
Speakers: Oliver Grau, Rudolf Frieling, Sandra Fauconnier, Christian Berndt,
Alain Depocas, Anne-Marie Duguet

concurrent session 2 - Pop/Mass/Society
(Chairs: Machiko Kusahara and Andreas Lange)
The dividing lines between art products and consumer products have been 
disappearing more and more since the Pop Art of the 1960s. The 
distinction between artist and recipient has also become blurred. Most 
recently, the digitalization of our society has sped up this process 
enormously. In principle, more and more artworks are no longer bound to 
a specific place and can be further developed relatively freely. The 
panel examines concrete forms, e.g. computer games, determining the 
cultural context and what consequences they could have for the 
understanding of art in the 21st century.
Speakers: Machiko Kusahara, Andreas Lange, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Tobey
Crockett, Mark Tribe

3:00 h / 8:00 pm
Rudolf Arnheim Lecture:
Sarat Maharaj: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and other Ways' of Knowing


1. October 05

GMT 15:30 pm /  Canada 8:30 am - plenary - Cross-Culture - Global Art
(Chair: Sara Diamond)
This panel provides an opportunity to put a special focus on 
cross-cultural influences, the global and the local. For example, how 
what are the impacts of narrative structures from Aboriginal and other 
oral cultures on the analysis and practice of new media? How do notions 
of identity shift across cultures historically, how are these embedded 
and transformed by new media practice? How does globalization and the 
construction of global contexts such as festivals and biennials effect 
local new media practices?
Speakers: Sara Diamond, Sheila Petty, Mary Leigh Morbey, Thomas
Riccio, Aparna Sharma, Laura Marks

17:45 h / 10:45 am - concurrent session 1
Cross Diciplinary Research Methods
(Chairs: Ron Burnett and Frieder Nake)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very intense - coming from a 
variety of disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this pressure has 
been around for a very long time. So, why don't we just strive for 
excellence irrespective of discipline? Don't the artistic practices 
within the field of New Media push us in that direction anyway?
Speakers: Frieder Nake, Ron Burnett, Dot Tuer, Guy Sui Durand, Michael
Century, David Tomas, Will Straw

concurrent session 2  - Rejuvenate: Film, Sound and Music in Media Arts 
History
(Chairs: Douglas Kahn and Sean Cubitt)
During an earlier period of new media arts discourse, time-based media 
were often considered to be "old media." While this conceit has been 
tempered, we still need to consider the sophistication and provocation 
of film, sound and music from the perspective of media arts history.
Speakers: Douglas Kahn, Sean Cubitt, Keith Sanborn, Scott Bukatman

20:45 h / 1:45 pm
keynote Lucia Santaella: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science and Technology

21:45  h / 2:45 pm - concurerent session 1 - Collaborative Practice/ 
Networking (History)
(Chairs: Ryszard Kluszczynski and Diana Domingues)
In a network people are working together, they share resources and 
knowledge with each other - and they compete with each other. This 
process has sped up enormously within a few decades and has reached a 
new quality/dimension. The dataflow created new economies and new forms 
of human communication.
Speakers: Ryszard Kluszczynski, Diana Domingues, Nina Czegledy, Todd Davis,
Douglas Jarvis, Jeremy Turner, Margaret Dolinsky

concurrent session 2 - What Can the History of New Media Learn from 
History of Science/Science Studies?
(Chair: Linda Henderson)
Science and technology have been an important part of the cultural field 
in the 20th century, and the history of science and science studies - 
along with the field of literature and science - offer important lessons 
for art historians writing the history of new media art.
Speakers: Timothy Lenoir, Linda Henderson, Timothy Druckrey,
Simon Werrett, Yann Chateigni

12:00 am / 5:00 pm - concurrent session 1 - High Art/Low Culture - the 
Future of Media Art Sciences?
(Chair: Karin Bruns)
The panel aims to bring together the methodological fields of media 
studies and media art history. Rather than limiting their focus to 
canonical works of art new studies in media art production blend methods 
and issues from art history and media sciences as well as from 
communication studies, sociology, techno sciences, art history, cultural 
and postcolonial studies.
Speakers: Karin Bruns, Yara Guasque, Andy Polaine, Claus Pias, Barbara Paul

concurrent session 2 - History of Institutions
(Chairs: Itsuo Sakane and Jasia Reichardt)
There are inevitable parallels between the development of what we now 
call media art and life at large. Excess of information leads to 
insecurity - what to believe, what to select, what to keep and what to 
discard. Sustainability, conservation, education and access are topics 
relevant to today's media art, and as relevant to it as to our natural 
resources. Now that media art has a history, how do we keep track of it 
and preserve it?
Speakers: Itsuo Sakane, Jasia Reichardt, Michael Naimark, Peter Richards,
Johannes Gvbel, Andreas Broeckmann (Discussant)
 

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