Voici la première annonce de re:place, deuxième conférence
internationale sur l'histoire art, media, science et
technologie (la première était Refresh qui s'est tenue à
Banff en 2005).


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Leonardo is please to partner on Re:Place The Second
International Conference of Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
as it did on the first. Leonardo is publishing a book in
the Leonardo Book Series and a series of articles in the
Leonardo
Journal that grew out of REPLACE the 1st conference which
was also co sponsored by Leonardo>

We hope that this series of conferences will help build
historical scholarship in the field as well as a place where
pioneers and young practioners can meet.

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
disciplinary 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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