CONF: RE-CREATE – THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICES OF RESEARCH-CREATION IN THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Montréal, 5-8 November 2015 Université du Québec à Montréal, Agora Hydro-Québec, Coeur des Sciences, 175, avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montréal Exhibition openings and reception on November 5 at Concordia University, E.V. building, 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montréal REGISTRATION is still OPEN! http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015 Re-Create conference focuses on six core thematic questions: 1). Theoretical Currents: How do the Senses, Animals and the Apocalypse inform research-creation practices ? (2). Sites: How have sites of research and practice evolved in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Sweden and Indigenous Cultures? (3). Histories of the Studio Lab: How have Australian, British, Canadian and American artists historically worked in academia, industry and generative art? (4). New Methods: What can the concept of co-production (STS),musique concrète,intersectionality theory and critical race studies, as well as the debates about the “practice turn” in higher education provide to the historical and critical positioning of practice? (5). Digital Humanities and Critical Practices: What are the challenges and the future of transdisciplinary collaboration? What can media archeology do for the humanities and contemporary academic culture? How has failure impacted practice-led research? (6). Curatorial Actions and Practices: How have philosophy, industrial creation, feminism, sound and “imageness” historically entered into curatorial practices? Program Chair: Dr. Christopher Salter, Co-Director, Hexagram; Associate Professor Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University Co-Program Chair: Gisèle Trudel, Professor, School of Visual and Media Arts, Arts Faculty, University of Québec at Montreal. Trudel is the former Director of Hexagram-UQAM (2011-13) and Co-Director of Hexagram (2012-15). Emerging Researchers’ (ER) Symposium des Chercheurs Émergents 04.11.2015 ER Programme here: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015/programme-overview-emerging-researchers-symposium EVENT OVERVIEW Thursday/jeudi 5.11.2015 DAY/JOUR 1 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE 2015 13h-15h30 OPENING ADDRESS/DISCOURS D’OUVERTURE Chris SALTER, Concordia University Oliver GRAU, Media Art Histories, Danube University SESSION 1 – Setting the Stage : Overview and Precedents “Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture” Revisited Michael CENTURY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Regard transversal sur des pratiques inter- et trans- Louise POISSANT, FRQSC Art-Science: A lab for discerning modes and logics of interdisciplinarity Georgina BORN, Oxford University Weaving Strands: Research-creation practices in universities, cultural institutions and artist-run culture in Montreal Gisèle TRUDEL, Université du Québec à Montréal + Cheryl SIM, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art 17h – Concordia University, EV building FOFA Gallery Biomateria + Contagious Matters Exhibition – WhiteFeather HUNTER + Tristan MATHESON, Concordia University Mangling Methodologies in Biological Art and Display Practices Discussion Panel – FREE, OPEN TO PUBLIC Jens HAUSER, University of Copenhagen, White Feather HUNTER, Concordia University, Tristan MATHESON, Concordia University, Andrew PELLING, University of Ottawa FOFA Gallery – York Vitrine Tourmente Interactive Public Screens – Jean DUBOIS, Université du Québec à Montréal Hexagram BlackBox Copacabana Machine Sex: Behind the Scene Robotics installation in process – Bill VORN, Concordia University KEYNOTE 1 Joan JONAS, Artist, New York 18h-23h – Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM Irradiate. Drawing electromagnetic frequencies with wind. Projection architecturale modulée par données environnementales (vent et ondes électromagnétiques). Ælab (Gisèle Trudel) with Guillaume Arseneault, Université du Québec à Montréal Friday/vendredi 6.11.2015 DAY/JOUR 2 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE 2015 9h-10h30 Session 2A – Methodological Entanglements La méthode de Pierre Scheaffer Yan BREULEUX, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Post-digital Circulationism. On- and Offline Intermedia Discourse in Contemporary Art and Scholarship, Katja KWASTEK, VU, University Amsterdam Discourse-analytical aesthetics for digital cultures Martina LEEKER + Irina KALDRACK, Leuphana University Practices and Languages of Art Sally Jane NORMAN, University of Sussex Session 2B – Practices : Histories of the StudioLab Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement. Patrick McCRAY, University of California at Santa Barbara Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, an Australian artist between Art, Industry, Science and the Academy. Martyn JOLLY and Anthony OATES, Australian National University Multimedia artists and fieldwork (1960-80s) Jelena MARTINOVIC, Geneva University of Art and Design 11h-12h KEYNOTE 2 Christine VAN ASSCHE, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou, Paris 13h-15h WORKSHOP/ATELIER Rekall – An open-source environment to document, analyze and simplify the restaging of time based media artworks. Clarisse BARDIOT + Guillaume MARAIS, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis Session 3A – Theories : Limiting the Anthropocene. End Time: Apocalyptic Systems in Media Art and Design Kevin HAMILTON, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Orit HALPERN, The New School University Instrumental Anthropocentrism: insects, sustainable culture and technological innovation Roberta BUIANI, Lakehead University Cultural Software – Materiality and Abstraction in 60s art and technology Simon PENNY, University of California at Irvine Session 3B – Re-Making the Critical University Media Labs, Making, and Critical Practice [Panel], Moderator : Nicholas BALAISIS, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo The productive contradictions of critical making Matt RATTO + Ginger COONS, University of Toronto Technoromantics, Maker Culture, and Critical Neo-Luddism Marcel O’GORMAN, University of Waterloo Audio Toy Box: Building customizable communication therapy toys using Radio Frequency Identification, Owen CHAPMAN + Eric POWELL, Concordia University Launch of the Media-N Journal’s special edition: Research-Creation: Explorations 15h30-17h Session 4A – Sites : Pioneering Experiences in Art, Science and Technology in Latin America [PANEL] Fotoformas, 1949-1951: Photography and Algorithmic Devices, An Early Interaction. Andrés BURBANO, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Franceso Mariotti: in pursuit of a hybrid ideal through art, media and nature José-Carlos MARIáTEGUI, Alta Tecnología Andina, Lima Sighting Technology in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art María FERNáNDEZ, Cornell University, Ithaca Interdisciplinaries Approaches to Second Order Cybernetics During the Early 70s in Chile : Artistic, Scientific and Techno/Political Experiences. Marcel VELASCO, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Session 4B – Archiving Failure: Film, History and Unfinished Projects [Panel] Notebooks, raw film reels and ephemera as Research-creation (Process) Monika Kin GAGNON, Concordia University Mechanography, Film and Education Mark HAYWARD, York University Right before the first boom: The lost stereoscopy of Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada Alison Reiko LOADER, PhD candidate, Concordia University Filming Simondon: Cultural Hysteresis and Technological Humanism Ghislain THIBAULT, Wilfrid Laurier University Saturday/samedi 07.11.2015 DAY/JOUR 3 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE 2015 9h-10h30 Session 5A – Media Archaeology and Humanities Labs: Creative Knowledge and Practice-Based Theory [PANEL] Moderator: Jussi PARIKKA, University of Southampton Exhibition as Lab. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048, Documenta 13 Joasia KRYSA, Liverpool John Moores University in partnership with Liverpool Biennial Media and Computer Archaeology at Humboldt University Stefan HöLTGEN, Humboldt University Berlin The Theory & Practice of Posthumanities in the Media Archaeology Lab Lori EMERSON, University of Colorado at Boulder, Media Archaeology Lab Situating the Media Archaeology Lab: Research, Art, and the Public Jesper OLSSON, Linkoping, Sweden Darren WERSHLER, Concordia University Session 5B – Practices : Curating alternate histories Museums of the Unfinished for Unstable Memories Giselle BEIGUELMAN, University of São Paulo Ca-Re: Mapping and reactivating variable media artworks in the Latin American context Jo-Ana MORFIN and Fernando MONREAL, Escuela Nacional de Conservación ENCRyM Image-material-media – a philo-curatorial interrogation Srajana KAIKINI, Manipal University On display : the history and representational politics of feminist new media and performance art, Barbara CLAUSEN, Université du Québec à Montréal BOOK LAUNCH : Chris SALTER. Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making. MIT Press 11h-12h KEYNOTE 3 Skawennati, Artist, Montreal 13h-15h WORKSHOP/ATELIER Perception, Movement, Image – Always More Than Human Anna MUNSTER + Michele BARKER, University of New South Wales; Erin MANNING, Concordia University 13h30-15h Session 6A – Theories : Other Senses Re-Habilitating Bacteria Jens HAUSER, University of Copenhagen Coming To Our Senses: A Report on the Sensory Turn in Curatorial and Media Art Practice David HOWES, Concordia University Edmund Carpenter’s Experiments across Visual Anthropology and Critical Media Pedagogies Michael DARROCH, University of Windsor, Hart COHEN, University of Western Sydney, Paul HEYER, Wilfrid Laurier University Session 6B – Practices : Curating as research. Virtual Volumes and Electric Choreographies Kinetic and Light Art in the David Bermant Collection and Recent Exhibitions Christiane PAUL, The New School Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in Public Spaces Morten SøNDERGAARD, Aalborg University Projection Studies Gabriel MENOTTI, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo New Media Curating : Sound as a Technological Medium Laura Plana GRACIA BOOK LAUNCH : Jussi PARIKKA and Joasia KRYSA. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. MIT Press Session 7A – Methods : Interdisciplinary Imbroglio. The Co-production of Art: Collaborations between artists, scientists and engineers in Sweden, 1967-2009 Anna ORRGHEN, Uppsala University Armonica/Automaton: Media Archaeologies of Affective Programming Alison De FREN, Occidental College, Los Angeles Writing on sound/writing with sound: intersection between sound art practice and research in sound studies Budhaditya CHATTOPADHYAY, University of Copenhagen Session 7B – Practices : Tactics, ethnicities and matters Tactical media in the age of communicative capitalism – closed story, unfinished project or current alternative? Maciej Ożóg, University of Łódź Matter and Thought: Gordon Pask’s Practice-Based Research María FERNáNDEZ, Cornell University (Ithaca) Intersectionality and New Media Art: Your Ethnic Apparel is Still Downloading Alice Ming Wai JIM, Concordia University 17h15-18h Michaela SEISER, DanubeU/Wendy COONES, DanubeU: Archive of Digital Art – Archive of the Field Award Ceremony MediaArtHistories 2015 for Barbara STAFFORD Laudatio Oliver GRAU, DanubeU/tba Sunday/dimanche 08.11.2015 DAY/JOUR 4 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE 2015 9h-10h30 Session 8A – Practices : Differential Sites Slow-Scan TV Art; Revisited/Revived Patrick LICHTY, American University of Sharjah Psychedelic Circuitry 1880–1980. Signals between Esotericism, New Religions, Engineering and Art – Their Potentials of Positive Diffraction Today Shintaro MIYAZAKI, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Chroma Glitch: Datamosh for Digital Video Carolyn L. KANE, Ryerson University Session 8B – Interdisciplinarity : Circuit breakdown. On A Critical History of Media Art in Japan (2014) Jung-Yeon MA, Tokyo University of the Arts A Brief (Media) History of the Indigenous Future Jason Edward LEWIS, Concordia University & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace Digital Art History, 56°56′51″N 24°6′23″E Solvita ZARINA, University of Latvia International Networks of Early Digital Arts Darko FRITZ, Zagreb 11h30-12h30 Session 9 – Challenges, Best Practices, and the Future of Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Media Art, Science and Technology [PANEL] Ruth WEST, University of North Texas Roger MALINA, University of Texas Sara DIAMOND, OCAD University François-Joseph LAPOINTE, Université de Montréal 12h30-13.30h WRAP UP SESSION/PLENIÈRE ANNOUNCEMENTS/ANNONCES MAH 2017 Venue + Closing remarks/Les mots de la fin VENUES/LIEUX Agora Hydro-Québec, Complexe du Coeur des sciences, Hexagram-UQAM Salle d’expérimentation, Pavillon des Sciences biologiques, Hexagram-UQAM Hall Building, Concordia University FOFA Gallery and York Vitrine, EV Building, Concordia University BlackBox, Hexagram-Concordia, EV Building Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre