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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT: 10pt Microsoft Sans Serif; COLOR: #000000">re:place 2007<BR><BR>The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, <BR>Science and Technology<BR><BR>Berlin, 15 - 18 November 2007<BR><BR><BR>CALL FOR PROPOSALS<BR><BR>Introduction<BR><BR>re:place 2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories <BR>of Media, Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin <BR>from 15 - 18 November 2007 as a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin <BR>GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This <BR>conference is a sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series, <BR>chaired by Oliver Grau and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, <BR>Leonardo, and Banff New Media Institute, and held at the Banff <BR>Center in Canada in September 2005, which brought together several <BR>hundred artists, scientists, researchers, curators and <BR>theoreticians of different disciplines.<BR><BR>re:place 2007 will be an international forum for the pres
entation <BR>and the discussion of exemplary approaches to the rapport between <BR>art, media, science and technology. With the title, 're:place', we <BR>propose a thematic focus on locatedness and the migration of <BR>knowledge and knowledge production in the interdisciplinary <BR>contexts of art, historiography, science and technology.<BR><BR>The re:place 2007 conference will be devoted to examining the <BR>manifold connections between art, science and technology, <BR>connections which have come into view more sharply through the <BR>growing attention to media art and its histories over the past <BR>years. It will address historical contexts and artistic <BR>explorations of new technologies as well as the historical and <BR>contemporary research into the mutual influences between artistic <BR>work, scientific research and technological developments. This <BR>research concerns such diverse fields as cybernetics, artificial <BR>intelligence, robotics, nano-technology, and bi
o-technology, as <BR>well as investigations in the humanities including art history, <BR>visual culture, musicology, comparative literature, media <BR>archaeology, media theory, science studies, and sociology.<BR><BR>Conference Programme<BR><BR>The conference programme will include competitively selected, <BR>peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations, poster <BR>sessions, as well as a small number of invited speakers. Several <BR>Keynote Lectures, by internationally renowned, outstanding <BR>theoreticians and artists, will deliberate on the central themes of <BR>the conference.<BR><BR>The conference will also include dedicated forum sessions for <BR>participants to engage in more open-ended discussion and debate on <BR>relevant issues and questions.<BR><BR><BR>CALL FOR PROPOSALS<BR><BR>re:place 2007 welcomes contributions from established as well as <BR>from emerging researchers in diverse fields. The conference will be <BR>of interest to those working in, but not
limited to, the following <BR>areas: art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, <BR>film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, <BR>philosophy, history, gender studies, human-computer interaction, <BR>contemporary art, musicology, sound studies, anthropology, <BR>sociology, geography, science, technology and society studies, <BR>history of science, and history of technology.<BR><BR>We are especially keen on empirical, conceptual, and historical <BR>contributions that exemplify and expand the diverse methodological <BR>and thematic concerns of this extended interdisciplinary area. <BR>These might include contributions to:<BR><BR>- institutional histories of centers, sites, or events that have <BR>helped to concretize and engender the intersections between media, <BR>art, science and technology. Some broad areas could be: <BR>experimental arts spaces, collaborative research labs, significant <BR>exhibitions, etc.<BR>- 'place studies' that
highlight significant locations or <BR>situations where such interdisciplinary intersections or <BR>significant historical episodes have occurred. A few examples might <BR>be: 'Tesla in Budapest', 'Flusser in Brazil', USSR in the 1920s, <BR>'Japan between 1950s-1970s,' etc.<BR>- historiographical issues, methods, and debates that pose critical <BR>questions in the formulation of the histories of the 'media arts'. <BR>These might include: archaeology, genealogy or variantology as <BR>methodological tools, bridging the divide between art and media <BR>history, sociologies of interactivity, etc.<BR>- theoretical frameworks from various philosophical and <BR>discip! linary positions. Topics might include the exemplary role of <BR>film studies or musicology for the study of media arts, or the <BR>significance of cultural specificities and location in media and <BR>technologies, etc.<BR>- the migration of knowledges and practices from different <BR>contexts, whether disciplinary,
institutional, geographical or <BR>cultural. Topics might include: the role of migrant artists in the <BR>development of new discourses and practices; the movement and <BR>adoption of disciplinary ideas from science into art contexts or <BR>vice versa, etc.<BR><BR><BR>SUBMISSIONS<BR><BR>A dedicated website and online paper submission system will be <BR>ready for submissions from 1st December 2006. Abstracts of <BR>proposals, panel presentations and posters will have to be <BR>submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats.<BR><BR>The DEADLINE for submissions will be 15 January 2007.<BR><BR>INFORMATION about the submission process and general information <BR>can be found at: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT: 10pt Microsoft Sans Serif; COLOR: #0000ff; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><A href="http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace">http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT: 10pt Microsoft Sans Serif; COLOR: #000000"> <BR><BR><BR>replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin G
mbH in <BR>cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by <BR>Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.<BR><BR>Conference partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual Art at <BR>Danube University Krems' Center for Image Science, Ludwig Boltzmann <BR>Institute Media.Art.Research, Forum Goethe Institut, and others.<BR><BR>Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT: 10pt Microsoft Sans Serif; COLOR: #000000"><BR></DIV></SPAN></BODY></HTML>