REFRESH! - THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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BANFF NEW MEDIA INSTITUTE,
DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART
and LEONARDO/ISAST produce :


REFRESH!
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada


CONFERENCE WEB SITE :  www.MediaArtHistory.org (full program with abstracts
available)
REGISTRATION:   www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/events/refresh/ (attendence place 
still available)


Thu, 29 Sept. 05


KEYNOTE
EDMOND COUCHOT: Towards the Autonomous Image

I.  MEDIAARTHISTORIES : TIMES AND LANDSCAPES I
GUNALAN NADARAJAN: Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of
Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
LOUISE POISSANT: From Material to Medium
OLIVER GRAU: REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA! Virtual Art of the 19th century 
and Its future
MARIO CARPO: The Demise of the Identicals Architectural Standardization in 
the Age of Digital Reproducibility

II.  METHODOLOGIES
MARK HANSEN: tba
ERKKI HUHTAMO: Media Arts and Media Archaeology - Collision or Convergence
IRINA ARISTARKHOVA: Excavating Mother, Excavating Cyborg
ANDREAS BROECKMANN: Image, Process, Performance, Machine, Paradigms of 
Media Art Theory

III.  IMAGE SCIENCE AND 'REPRESENTATION': FROM A COGNITIVE POINT OF VIEW
BARBARA STAFFORD: Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental 
Representation
KRISTIN VEEL: Once Upon a Time There Was a DatabaseSDatabase and Narrative 
from
a Cognitive (...)
CHRISTINE ROSS: Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts, (Canada)
PHILLIP THURTLE & CLAUDIA X. VALDES: Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as
Experimental Practice
CHRISTOPHER SALTER: The Performative Turn in New Media - A Critical History
TIM CLARK: Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical 
Examination of the "The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" 
and the Incorporation of "The Argument from Human Creativity

IV.  ART AS RESEARCH / ARTISTS AS INVENTORS
DIETER DANIELS: Art as Research / Artists as Inventors
CHRIS MEIGH-ANDREWS: Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development 
of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor
FRED TURNER: Where Cybernetics Met The Counterculture: The Us Company
SIMON PENNY: Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of 
the Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork
CORNELIUS BORCK: Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of
Prosthetic Perception

V.  MEDIAARTHISTORIES: TIMES AND LANDSCAPES II
EDWARD SHANKEN: Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art?
CHARLIE GERE: Early British Computer Art: the Findings of the CACHe Project
GRANT TAYLOR: How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art
DARKO FRITZ & MARGIT ROSEN: Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of
Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s
SYLVIE LACERTE: Experiments in Art and Technology: a Gap to Fill in Art
History's Recent Chronicles
ANNE COLLINS GOODYEAR: Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art 
and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971
CAROLINE LANGILL: Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of 
Early Electronic Art
MARIA FERNANDEZ: Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath



Fri, 30 Sept. 05

VI.   COLLECTING; PRESERVING AND ARCHIVING THE MEDIA ARTS
JEAN GAGNON: The Daniel Langlois Foundation's Research and Documentation 
Centre (CR+D) : Building and Preserving Tools and Resources on Media Arts
CHRISTIANE PAUL: The Myth of Immateriality - Presenting & Preserving New 
Media
PETER WEIBEL: The Migration and Preservation of Media
JON IPPOLITO: Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?

VII.  DATABASE / NEW SCIENTIFIC TOOLS
RUDOLF FRIELING: 'Media Art Net': Database and Context
CHRISTIAN BERNDT: Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of
Documentation
SANDRA FAUCONNIER: V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of 
Media Art
ALAIN DEPOCAS: tba.
ANNE-MARIE DUGUET: tba.
RICHARD RINEHART: A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital 
and Variable Media Art

VIII.  POP/ MASS/ SOCIETY
MACHIKO KUSAHARA: Technology as Art: 'Device Art' as a New Japanese Paradigm
ANDREAS LANGE: Archiving of Computer Games
KAREN KEIFER-BOYD: Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century
TOBEY CROCKETT: An Aesthetics of Play - or, How to Appreciate Interactive 
Fun
MARK TRIBE: Open Source Culture

RUDOLF ARNHEIM LECTURE
SARAT MAHARAJ: Xeno-Epistemics: Global Migrations and 'Other' Ways of 
Knowing


Sat, 1 Oct. 05

IX.  CROSS-CULTURE - GLOBAL ART
SARA DIAMOND: Cross Culture - Global Art
MANRAY HSU: From TEchno-Utopia to Network Cosmopolitanism: On the 
Convergence between New Media Art and Contemporary Art
MARKO STAMENKOVIC: New Media Art in Postsocialist Conditions
SHEILA PETTY: CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. 
Kempadoo's Ghosting
MARY LEIGH MORBEY: From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual
Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Musea Websites
THOMAS RICCIO: World Narrative: The Creation of a New ?Place?
APARNA SHARMA: Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation
LAURA MARKS: Latent Rhythm: Algorithmic Performativity in Media Art and 
Islamic Calligraphy

X.  CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS
FRIEDER NAKE: Events of Significance
RON BURNETT: Is New Media New?
DOT TUER: Transculturation and New Media History
GUY SUI DURAND: tba.
WILL STRAW: Grounded Materialities: Who Isn't Interdisciplinary?
DAVID TOMAS: Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices
MICHAEL CENTURY: New Media in an Adhocracy

XI.  REJUVINATE : FILM; SOUND AND MUSIC IN THE MEDIA ARTS HISTORY
DOUGLAS KAHN: Music: The First Digital Art
SEAN CUBITT: tba.
KEITH SANBORN: Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic
SCOTT BUKATMAN: Comics and the Critique of Chronophotography, or "He Never 
Knew When It Was Coming!"

KEYNOTE
LUCIA SANTAELLA: The Semiosis of Media Art, Science, and Technology

XII.  COLABORATIVE PRACTICE / NETWORKING (HISTORY)
RYSZARD KLUSZCZYNSKI: RE-Writing the History of Modern Art: How Hypermedia
Change Our Vision of the Past (the case of artistic collaboration)
DIANA DOMINGUES, ELISEO REATEGUI: Collaborative Transdisciplinary Practices 
for Complex Systems in Interactive and Immersive Art
NINA CZEGLEDY: Cross Cultural Interdisciplinary Initiatives
TODD DAVIS, DOUGLAS JARVIS, JEREMY TURNER: SAT-TEL-COMP -
(Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional Artist 
Networks Through the Connectivity of (technological) Telecommunications 
Devices and Human Dialogue
MARGARET DOLINSKY: CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality Across High 
Speed Networks

XIII.  WHAT CAN THE HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA LEARN
FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE/SCIENCE STUDIES ?
TIMOTHY LENOIR: Making Studies in New Media Critical
MICHAEL PUNT: History of Science, Technology and Entertainment at the Turn 
of the 19th Century
LINDA HENDERSON: 'The Fourth Dimension,' the History of Science, and New 
Media
TIMOTHY DRUCKREY: Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History
SIMON WERRETT: Logics of Innovation: Science Studies and New Media 
Approaches Compared
YANN CHATEIGNÉ: The Fourth Memory: Beyond Information Art in 
Hypertechnological Times

XIV.   HIGH ART / LOW CULTURE - THE FUTURE OF MEDIA ART SCIENCES?
KARIN BRUNS: High Art / Low Culture - the Future of Media Art Sciences?
YARA GUASQUE: Immersive and Participative Environments
ANDY POLAINE: Lowbrow, High Art. Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand
Interactivity
CLAUS PIAS: Zombies of the Revolution
BARBARA PAUL: tba

XV.  HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS
ITSUO SAKANE: On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology - 
Toward the Cultural Evolution of Human-Being
JASIA REICHARDT: The Computer in Art
MICHAEL NAIMARK: Dynamics of Sustainability
PETER RICHARDS: tba.
JOHANNES GOEBEL: tba.
ANDREAS BROECKMANN: discussant


POSTER SESSION with:
KIRSTY ROBERTSON, CHARLOTTE FROST, GENCO GULAN, ATTEQA MALIK, MICHAEL 
SALMOND,MARIA VICTORIA GUGLIETTI, AYESHA HAMEED, CHRISTOPH KLUETSCH, JOHN 
MAXWELL, TIM JACKSON, SYLVIA GRACE BORDA & ALICE MING WAI  JIM, ARTUR 
MATUCK, MAUREEN NAPPI, MARTIN RIESER, JAN ALTMANN, FRANCES DYSON, FRANCK  
ANCEL, CAROLINE BERNARD, JEAN-LOUIS BOISSIER, JEAN-LUC MARCHINA, DANIEL 
PINKAS, COUNTY TAM,  MARA TRAUMANE and SUSANNE SCHUMACHER