[rohrpost] CFP: MAH Re-Create 2015 Call for Proposals

Oliver Grau Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at
Don Okt 9 20:19:51 CEST 2014


        CALL FOR           PROPOSALS - APPEL           À COMMUNICATIONS
(site version française)              
           DEADLINE for submissions is December 7, 2014
         
       
         
       
       RE-CREATE           2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth
international conference           on the histories of Media, Art
Science and Technology
       
       
       Hexagram,         Concordia University and Université du Québec à
Montréal in         collaboration with Media at McGill and CIRMMT- McGill
Montréal,         Canada. 5-8 November 2015 Re-Create           CFP
Submission Site
       
       
       Re-Create         2015, the sixth international Conference on the
Histories of         Media, Art Science and Technology will mark the
10th Anniversary         of the Re conference series. Re-Create 2015 is
devoted to         exploring what theories, methodologies and techniques
can be         used to understand past, present and indeed, future
paradigms of         creative material practice involving technologies
within         research contexts from a historical and critical point of
view.
       
       
       The title         Re-Create is an abbreviation for the term
“research-creation”,         part of a growing international movement
which goes by many         names: “practice-led research,” “research-led
practice,” and         “artistic research,” among others.
       
       
       While the         link between research and practice seems to be
a new horizon,         the media-based arts have long been at the
intersection of the         humanities, sciences, and engineering and
present a critical         site in which to take up the changing
relationships between         knowledge, power, and economy.
       
       
       Research         normally signifies modes of acquiring new
knowledge that         coherently and systematically advance a field and
is grounded         and validated by both social frameworks (peers) and
existing         bodies of knowledge. Similarly, research in conjunction
with         material practice demands that making be historically,     
   theoretically and methodologically framed and valorized.
       
       
       Re-Create         2015 seeks to interrogate the historical
entanglement of         research and making within a wide and diverse
set of         international sites, disciplines and contexts: from      
  non-institutional creative research initiatives driven by        
artists and designers in the streets, to the labyrinths of        
industry funded research labs and universities. From unknown or        
ignored histories of research-based practices in Latin America,        
Asia and Indigenous communities to government funded        
initiatives, the conference will thus critically explore the        
ongoing and productive tensions between theory, method and        
making in the histories of media, art, science and technology.
       
       
       Potential         contributors to the conference should focus
thematic panel         sessions or individual papers on one of the
following areas of         concentration:
       LAB STUDIES : Studies         on how artists and designers have
historically worked in         industry, universities and collective,
grass roots-based         research environments
       CURATORIAL ACTIONS AND           PRACTICES : How have research
paradigms historically         entered into curatorial practices and how
have they been framed,         exhibited and articulated?
       ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH         : Historical profiles of
non-institutionally based         research-driven explorations.
       THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS         : How have theoretical paradigms
in media, art, science and         technology historically evolved
structuralism in the 1960s or         media studies to current work in
affect theory, media         archaeology, critical post-humanist
approaches derived from STS,         appropriation afeminist new materialism,         queer and postcolonial studies,
enactive and distributed         cognition?
       METHODOLOGIES : What         can methodological tools emerging
from the human and social         sciences like ethnography,
historiography, archaeology,         genealogy and other qualitative
techniques provide to the         historical and critical positioning of
practice?
       INTERDISCIPLINARY           INTERSECTIONS AND IMPACTS :
Exploration of the         formation and rise of interdisciplinary
research fields (image         science, sound studies, science studies,
sensory studies,         environmental studies) and their impact on the
construction of         media art histories.
       DIGITAL HUMANITIES :         What is the historical relationship
between the digital         humanities and the histories of media, art,
science and         technology?
       SITES: How         historically have sites of research and
practice in media art,         science and technology evolved outside of
the predominant         spheres of Europe and North America and what
forms have they         taken?
       
       
       CONFERENCE           PROGRAM 
       The         conference program will include competitively
selected         peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations
and poster         sessions as well as a number of keynotes and invited
speakers         and a parallel satellite program of events with
Hexagram         partners including core cultural institutions in
Montreal. In         the interest of maintaining a concentrated
conference program,         there will be a series of plenary sessions
as well as         accompanying poster sessions. Each of the plenaries
as well as         the poster sessions will mix together scholars and
practitioners         representing different cultural perspectives. The
conference         will be held in English and French, with live
translation.
       
       
       CALL           FOR PROPOSALS
       Re-Create         2015 welcomes contributions from researchers,
artists,         designers, scholars and technologists working across
diverse         disciplines, sites and practices. We particularly
encourage         scholars and creators from international contexts
outside of         Europe and North America.
       
       
       ABOUT           THE CONTEXT AND THE HOST
       The         conference will take place in Montreal hosted by
Hexagram, the         international network for media, art, design and
digital culture         (http://hexagram.ca). It is the         largest
network of its kind in Canada and one of the largest        
internationally dedicated to research-led creative practices.        
Ten years after the inaugural Re-Fresh conference at the Banff        
New Media Institute in 2005, the return of the conference to        
Canada and specifically to Quebec, offers a pertinent context to        
address the evolution of research in the histories of media,        
art, science and technology
(http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series).The         conference
will be held across the two core Hexagram sites at         Concordia
University and the Université du Québec à Montréal         (UQAM). The
venues are within walking distance from each other,         centrally
located in vibrant, downtown Montreal – the digital         arts and
culture capital of North America.
       
       
       SUBMISSIONS
       250 word         abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and
posters should         be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF
formats. Texts can         be submitted in French and in English. The
DEADLINE for         submissions is December 7, 2014. Submitters will be
informed by         mid February 2015. INFORMATION about the submission
process and         general information can be found at: Re-Create      
    Submission Site
       
       
       
       
       
       
       Conference         partners include Media at McGill, CIRMCinémathèque         québécoise, DHC-Art, Elektra/ACREQ, Goethe-Institut
Montreal and         others to be announced.
       
       
       Conference         chairs and Hexagram Co-Directors: Chris
Salter, artist,         Concordia University Research Chair and
Associate Professor,         Design and Computation Arts, Concordia
University (QC/CA/US/DE)         and Gisèle Trudel (QC/CA), artist and
professor, École des arts         visuels et médiatiques, Université du
Québec à Montréal.
       
       
       Re-Create         Local Organizing Committee: Thierry BARDINI,
Barbara CLAUSEN,         Ricardo DAL FARRA, Jean DUBOIS, Jean GAGNON,
Alice JIM, Jason         LEWIS, Jonathan LESSARD, Louise POISSANT, Chris
SALTER, Cheryl         SIM, Jonathan STERNE, Alain THIBAULT, Gisele
TRUDEL, Marcelo         WANDERLEY Re-Create 2015
       
       
       International         Advisory Board: Marie-Luise ANGERER, Monika
BAKKE, Samuel         BIANCHINI, Georgina BORN, Andreas BROECKMANN,
Annick BUREAUD,         Michael CENTURY, Joel CHADABE, Dooeun CHOI, Ian
CLOTHIER, Sarah         COOK, Nina CZEGLEDY, Sara DIAMOND, Diane
DOMINGUES, Jean Paul         FOURMENTRAUX, Zhang GA, SĂ©bastien GENVO,
Orit HALPERN, Jens         HAUSER, Denisa KERA, Felipe CĂ©sar LONDONO,
Natalie LOVELESS,         Glenn LOWRY, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Roger
MALINA, Sally Jane         NORMAN, Nicolas NOVA, Jussi PARIKKA,
Christiane PAUL, Simon         PENNY, Andrew PICKERING, Sundar SARRUKAI,
Yukiko SHIKATA, Michel         VAN DARTEL, Ionat ZURR 
       
       
       MAH         Honorary Board: Douglas DAVIS, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo
SAKANE,         Peter WEIBEL 
       
       
         MAH Conference Series Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda   
     HENDERSON, Erkki HUHTAMO, Douglas KAHN, Martin KEMP, Machiko       
 KUSAHARA, Tim LENOIR, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Paul THOMAS
       
       
     
     
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