[rohrpost] New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

[Image Science]

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, 
havaal at 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