[Reader-list] [Announcements] Call: re:place 2007 Conference (Berlin, November 2007)

[Gunalan Nadarajan]

> 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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