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BANFF NEW MEDIA INSTITUTE, DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART and LEONARDO/ISAST produce : REFRESH! 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada CONFERENCE WEB SITE : www.MediaArtHistory.org (full program with abstracts available) REGISTRATION: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/events/refresh/ (attendence place still available) Thu, 29 Sept. 05 KEYNOTE EDMOND COUCHOT: Towards the Autonomous Image I. MEDIAARTHISTORIES : TIMES AND LANDSCAPES I GUNALAN NADARAJAN: Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) LOUISE POISSANT: From Material to Medium OLIVER GRAU: REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA! Virtual Art of the 19th century and Its future MARIO CARPO: The Demise of the Identicals Architectural Standardization in the Age of Digital Reproducibility II. METHODOLOGIES MARK HANSEN: tba ERKKI HUHTAMO: Media Arts and Media Archaeology - Collision or Convergence IRINA ARISTARKHOVA: Excavating Mother, Excavating Cyborg ANDREAS BROECKMANN: Image, Process, Performance, Machine, Paradigms of Media Art Theory III. IMAGE SCIENCE AND 'REPRESENTATION': FROM A COGNITIVE POINT OF VIEW BARBARA STAFFORD: Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation KRISTIN VEEL: Once Upon a Time There Was a DatabaseSDatabase and Narrative from a Cognitive (...) CHRISTINE ROSS: Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts, (Canada) PHILLIP THURTLE & CLAUDIA X. VALDES: Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice CHRISTOPHER SALTER: The Performative Turn in New Media - A Critical History TIM CLARK: Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical Examination of the "The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" and the Incorporation of "The Argument from Human Creativity IV. ART AS RESEARCH / ARTISTS AS INVENTORS DIETER DANIELS: Art as Research / Artists as Inventors CHRIS MEIGH-ANDREWS: Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor FRED TURNER: Where Cybernetics Met The Counterculture: The Us Company SIMON PENNY: Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork CORNELIUS BORCK: Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception V. MEDIAARTHISTORIES: TIMES AND LANDSCAPES II EDWARD SHANKEN: Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art? CHARLIE GERE: Early British Computer Art: the Findings of the CACHe Project GRANT TAYLOR: How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art DARKO FRITZ & MARGIT ROSEN: Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s SYLVIE LACERTE: Experiments in Art and Technology: a Gap to Fill in Art History's Recent Chronicles ANNE COLLINS GOODYEAR: Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971 CAROLINE LANGILL: Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of Early Electronic Art MARIA FERNANDEZ: Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath Fri, 30 Sept. 05 VI. COLLECTING; PRESERVING AND ARCHIVING THE MEDIA ARTS JEAN GAGNON: The Daniel Langlois Foundation's Research and Documentation Centre (CR+D) : Building and Preserving Tools and Resources on Media Arts CHRISTIANE PAUL: The Myth of Immateriality - Presenting & Preserving New Media PETER WEIBEL: The Migration and Preservation of Media JON IPPOLITO: Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated? VII. DATABASE / NEW SCIENTIFIC TOOLS RUDOLF FRIELING: 'Media Art Net': Database and Context CHRISTIAN BERNDT: Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation SANDRA FAUCONNIER: V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of Media Art ALAIN DEPOCAS: tba. ANNE-MARIE DUGUET: tba. RICHARD RINEHART: A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and Variable Media Art VIII. POP/ MASS/ SOCIETY MACHIKO KUSAHARA: Technology as Art: 'Device Art' as a New Japanese Paradigm ANDREAS LANGE: Archiving of Computer Games KAREN KEIFER-BOYD: Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century TOBEY CROCKETT: An Aesthetics of Play - or, How to Appreciate Interactive Fun MARK TRIBE: Open Source Culture RUDOLF ARNHEIM LECTURE SARAT MAHARAJ: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and 'Other' Ways of Knowing Sat, 1 Oct. 05 IX. CROSS-CULTURE - GLOBAL ART SARA DIAMOND: Cross Culture - Global Art MANRAY HSU: From TEchno-Utopia to Network Cosmopolitanism: On the Convergence between New Media Art and Contemporary Art MARKO STAMENKOVIC: New Media Art in Postsocialist Conditions SHEILA PETTY: CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo's Ghosting MARY LEIGH MORBEY: From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Musea Websites THOMAS RICCIO: World Narrative: The Creation of a New ?Place? APARNA SHARMA: Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation LAURA MARKS: Latent Rhythm: Algorithmic Performativity in Media Art and Islamic Calligraphy X. CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS FRIEDER NAKE: Events of Significance RON BURNETT: Is New Media New? DOT TUER: Transculturation and New Media History GUY SUI DURAND: tba. WILL STRAW: Grounded Materialities: Who Isn't Interdisciplinary? DAVID TOMAS: Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices MICHAEL CENTURY: New Media in an Adhocracy XI. REJUVINATE : FILM; SOUND AND MUSIC IN THE MEDIA ARTS HISTORY DOUGLAS KAHN: Music: The First Digital Art SEAN CUBITT: tba. KEITH SANBORN: Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic SCOTT BUKATMAN: Comics and the Critique of Chronophotography, or "He Never Knew When It Was Coming!" KEYNOTE LUCIA SANTAELLA: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science, and Technology XII. COLABORATIVE PRACTICE / NETWORKING (HISTORY) RYSZARD KLUSZCZYNSKI: RE-Writing the History of Modern Art: How Hypermedia Change Our Vision of the Past (the case of artistic collaboration) DIANA DOMINGUES, ELISEO REATEGUI: Collaborative Transdisciplinary Practices for Complex Systems in Interactive and Immersive Art NINA CZEGLEDY: Cross Cultural Interdisciplinary Initiatives TODD DAVIS, DOUGLAS JARVIS, JEREMY TURNER: SAT-TEL-COMP - (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional Artist Networks Through the Connectivity of (technological) Telecommunications Devices and Human Dialogue MARGARET DOLINSKY: CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality Across High Speed Networks XIII. WHAT CAN THE HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE/SCIENCE STUDIES ? TIMOTHY LENOIR: Making Studies in New Media Critical MICHAEL PUNT: History of Science, Technology and Entertainment at the Turn of the 19th Century LINDA HENDERSON: 'The Fourth Dimension,' the History of Science, and New Media TIMOTHY DRUCKREY: Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History SIMON WERRETT: Logics of Innovation: Science Studies and New Media Approaches Compared YANN CHATEIGNÉ: The Fourth Memory: Beyond Information Art in Hypertechnological Times XIV. HIGH ART / LOW CULTURE - THE FUTURE OF MEDIA ART SCIENCES? KARIN BRUNS: High Art / Low Culture - the Future of Media Art Sciences? YARA GUASQUE: Immersive and Participative Environments ANDY POLAINE: Lowbrow, High Art. Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand Interactivity CLAUS PIAS: Zombies of the Revolution BARBARA PAUL: tba XV. HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS ITSUO SAKANE: On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology - Toward the Cultural Evolution of Human-Being JASIA REICHARDT: The Computer in Art MICHAEL NAIMARK: Dynamics of Sustainability PETER RICHARDS: tba. JOHANNES GOEBEL: tba. ANDREAS BROECKMANN: discussant POSTER SESSION with: KIRSTY ROBERTSON, CHARLOTTE FROST, GENCO GULAN, ATTEQA MALIK, MICHAEL SALMOND, MARIA VICTORIA GUGLIETTI, AYESHA HAMEED, CHRISTOPH KLUETSCH, JOHN MAXWELL, TIM JACKSON, SYLVIA GRACE BORDA & ALICE MING WAI JIM, ARTUR MATUCK, MAUREEN NAPPI, MARTIN RIESER, JAN ALTMANN, FRANCES DYSON, FRANCK ANCEL, CAROLINE BERNARD, JEAN-LOUIS BOISSIER, JEAN-LUC MARCHINA, DANIEL PINKAS, COUNTY TAM, MARA TRAUMANE and SUSANNE SCHUMACHER __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]