[Reader-list] [Announcements] Call for Proposals: re:place 2007

[Aarti Sethi]

re:place 2007

The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,  
Science
and Technology

Berlin, 15 - 18 November 2007


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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 Programme

The conference programme 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


replace 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)
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