New Media Conference (Berlin, November 2007)

[Bruce Kirkley]

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 
discip! linary 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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