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<b><b>Approaching deadline – call for Media Art Histories 2013:
RENEW conference abstracts!</b></b><br>
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MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2013: RENEW</b> <b><br>
The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media
Art, Science and Technology</b><br>
<b>October 8 – 11, 2013, Riga, Latvia</b><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">The 5th International
Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology, Renew, will be hosted by RIXC and held in Riga,
Latvia, October 8 – 11, 2013, coinciding with the
international festival for new media culture
Art+Communication. It will host three days of keynotes, panels
and poster sessions on the histories of networked digital,
electronic and technological media arts.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Confirmed keynote
speakers:</b></p>
Prof. Dr. Peter WEIBEL / ZKM,<br>
Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO / UCLA,<br>
& t.b.a.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Besides general
topics of the call, the theme of Renew, Media Art History 2013
addresses current tendencies in sustainability quests from
various perspectives. As media art is based on increasingly
out-dating technology and it is dependent on energy
(electricity) the conference will discuss sustainable
approaches towards the issues of producing, preserving and
representing media artworks – how to 'renew' them through both
– tools and histories. By focusing on networked media arts,
the Renew conference will cover a broad range of topics to
include early communication art (mail, fax, radio, satellite,
etc.), net.art and net.radio, open source and network culture,
locative media and wireless communities, hybrid networks and
electromagnetic art, and last but not least – artistic
investigations in sustainability, and future visions of art
within the convergence of information and energy technologies.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Proposed topics:</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* Histories of
networked art and media technologies</p>
* Archiving, preserving and representing new media art<br>
* Media archaeology<br>
* Paradigm shift – from new media to post-media conditions in
art<br>
* Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the
Baltics<br>
* Revising the geospatial aspects - for writing comparative
media art histories<br>
* Resilient networks and emerging 'techno-ecological' art
practices<br>
* Multifarious potential of expression in media art – 'new
imagery' of our times
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>EXTENDED DEADLINE
for abstracts: February 15, 2013.</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Notification of
acceptance will be announced by March 25, 2013.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Individual proposals
should consist of a 250-word abstract with title and brief
biography/CV.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Proposals and
inquiries regarding submissions should be made on<a href="http://www.mediaarthistory.org/">
www.mediaarthistory.org</a> web-site. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Call for papers
SUBMISSION PAGE:</b> <a href="http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php">http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php</a>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><br>
* * *</p>
<br><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">Selected papers from
the conference will be published in Acoustic Space and other
venues. Founded in 1998 by E-Lab as artistic journal for sound
art, networked audio experiments and new media culture, since
2007 Acoustic Space comes out as peer-reviewed journal for
transdisciplinary research on art, science, technology and
society, published by RIXC & Art Research Lab of Liepaja
University.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">The conference will
be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including
the Art+Communication festival, with a thematically related
media art exhibition, experimental film and video screening
programme, live performances, concerts and workshops.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US">* * *</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>MAH 2013 Renew
Conference Chairs:</b> Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Honorary Board:</b>
Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS,
Robert ADRIAN</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>Renew Conference
Advisory Board:</b> Eric KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke
ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE, Mark
TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH, Edward
SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Frieder NAKE</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><b>MAH Conference
Series Board:</b> Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko
KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Linda
HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><a href="http://rixc.lv/2013">http://rixc.lv/13</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><br></p></div></div></div></body></html>