New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16) The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall), Ra’anana, Israel, November 23, 2016 New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights Symposium Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus
of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face losing an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial digital culture". Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html), initiated by Prof. Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art Histories. The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel. Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts. The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality ("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live performance by Shaul Tzemach. Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel, hav...@openu.ac.il PROGRAM 9:30-10:00 Gathering 10:00-10:30 Greetings and Welcome Address Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel 10:30-11:30 Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, IDC Herzliya Time Body Study / Performative Experiment 11:30-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-13:00 Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel Keynote Address Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University, Austria Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image Science 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:00 Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Reaching Out and Being Moved: Embodied Aesthetics, Moral Affordances, and the Graphical User Interface Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art Sensoring Art: The Art Object in the IoT (Internet of Things) Era 15:00-15:15 Coffee Break 15:15-16:15 Chair: Prof. Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Performing the Digital Museum Dr. Yael Eylat Van Essen, Faculty of Design, Holon Institute of Technology; Tel Aviv University Between the Real and the Virtual: Rethinking the Museum 16:15-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 Chair: Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering Design and Art Ronen Leibman, Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem From Video Art to Video Games and Back Dr. Avi Rozen, New Media Artist and Independent Scholar Cyberspace: Toward a Minor Art Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel Concluding Remarks 17:30-18:00 | Live Performance Shaul Tzemach, Interdisciplinary Artist Light Sense vE Full program at: http://www.publicators.com/app/dms.asp?ms_id=17018 -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
