The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology
**KREMS|GÖTTWEIG|VIENNA, Austria - November 23 - 25, 2017**
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/retrace

** Early Bird Registration now open **

The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology - RE:TRACE - will be hosted by the Department for Image
Science and held jointly at Danube University, Göttweig Abbey and the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Following Banff 2005, Berlin 2007,
Melbourne 2009, Liverpool 2011, Riga 2013 and Montreal 2015, the Media
Art History Boards and Co-Chairs invite you to attend Re:Trace 2017 in
Krems/Göttweig/Vienna.

More than a decade after the first conference founded the field, which
is now recognized internationally as a significant historical inquiry at
the intersection of art, science, and technology, Media Art Histories is
now firmly established as a dynamic area of interdisciplinary study
guided by changing media and research priorities, drawing a growing
community of scholars, artists and artist-researchers.

Immersed in both contemporary and historiographical aspects of the
digital world, we explore the most immediate socio-cultural questions of
our time: from body futures, information society, and media
(r)evolutions, to environmental interference, financial virtualization,
and surveillance. And we do so through a fractal lens of inter- and
trans-disciplinarity, bridging art history, media studies, neuroscience,
psychology, sociology, and beyond. MediaArtHistories is a field whose
theory, methods, and objects of study interweave with and overlay other
disciplines.

**KEYNOTES:* *
o Prof. Ryszard KLUSCZYNSKI (University of Lodz, PL)
o Prof. Wendy Hui CHUN (Brown University, US)
o Prof. Em. Martin KEMP (Oxford University, UK)
o Prof. Morten SØNDERGAARD (Aalborg University, DK)
o Prof. Sarah KENDERDINE (École polytechnique fédérale de
Lausanne, CH)

**SESSIONS:**

*:: Politics I: Cybernetics, computing and the question of
representation in art
*:: Politics II: Ecology, politics, and aesthetics
*:: Politics III: Ambitious goals with tactical media
*:: Politics IV: Political and aesthetic impacts of automated
classifications
*:: Early experimental strategies in the image-sound-complex
*:: Generative Art
*:: Sound Art
*:: net.art revisited
*:: From Trans-Local to Telematics
*:: Modulating sensory perception with media cross-over
*:: Soft and Fluid Media
*:: Retracing media art and its precursors in Latin America
*:: Reframing social artistic initiatives since the 1960s
*:: Internet infrastructure under scrutiny
*:: Digital Humanities and Critical Practices
*:: Preservation strategies I: Performing and rethinking materiality
*:: Preservation strategies II: Dynamic archiving
*:: Curation and art production in crowdsourced and networked
situations
*:: Recent tendencies in computer-aided preserving and presenting
*:: New media art theory mashup
*:: Aesthetics: Theories of the post-digital image

*:: POSTER Presentations

**CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:**
Oliver GRAU and Inge HINTERWALDNER

** Re:Trace AUSTRIA BOARD:**
Carl AIGNER (Landesmuseum St. Pölten, AT); Jose Ramon ALCALA
(University of Castilla La Mancha, ES); Giselle BEIGUELMAN (University
of São Paulo, BR); Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (University of Castilla La
Mancha, ES); Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana University Lüneburg, DE);
Andres BURBANO (Universidad de los Andes, CO); Valentino CATRICALA
(University Roma Tre / Media Art Festival, IT); Sebastian EGENHOFER
(University of Vienna, AT); Ksenia FEDOROVA (RU/UC Davis, US); Sabine
FLACH (University of Graz, AT); Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER (University of
Applied Arts, Vienna, AT); Erkki HUHTAMO (University of California Los
Angeles, US); Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI (University of Lodz, PL); Katja
KWASTEK (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL); Daniel Cardoso LLACH
(Carnegie Mellon University, US); Sjoukje van der MEULEN (Utrecht
University, NL); Gunalan NADARAJAN (University of Michigan, US); Gerald
NESTLER (Vienna, A); Ana PERAICA (Split, HR); Christopher SALTER
(Concordia University, CA); Yukiko SHIKATA (Tokio, JP; Christa SOMMERER
(University of Art and Design, Linz, AT); Morten SøNDERGAARD (Aalborg
University, DK); Axel STOCKBURGER (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT);
Gerfried STOCKER (Ars Electronica, Linz, AT); Eveline WANDL-VOGT (ÖAW,
Vienna, AT).

**SPEAKERS and PRESENTERS (among others):* *
Chandrika ACHARYA (IN), Bahar AKGÜN(TR), Hava ALDOUBY (IL), Pau ALSINA
(ES), Elisa ARCA (PE), Aura BALANESCU (RO), Rod BANTJES (CA), Giselle
BEIGUELMAN (BR), Beatriz Escribano BELMAR (ES), Catherine BERNARD (US),
Clara BOJ TOVAR (ES), Grant BOLLMER (US), Stefanie BRÄUER (CH), Andreas
BROECKMANN (DE), Roberta BUIANI (CA), Andres BURBANO (CO), Aaron BURTON
(AU), Ron BURNETT (CA), Franziska BUTZE-RIOS (AT), Jon CATES (US),
Valentino CATRICALA (IT), Maria Teresa CRUZ (PT), Derek CURRY (US),
Stephanie DE BOER (US), Karin DE WILD (NL), Annet DEKKER (NL), Penesta
DIKA (KO), Steve DIXON (UK), Ksenia FEDOROVA (RU), Valerie FELIX (CH),
Natalia FEDOROVA (RU), Victor FLORES (PT), Francesca FRANCO (IT), Darko
FRITZ (HR), Manuelle FREIRE CA), Rania GAAFAR (DE), Dmitry GALKIN (RU),
Sara GARZON (US), David GAUTHIER (NL), Diego GóMEZ-VENEGAS (CL),
Jennifer GRADECKI (US), Joanna GRIFFIN (IN), Vendela GRUNDELL (SE),
Katharina GSÖLLPINTNER (AT), Kevin HAMILTON (US), Bilge HASDEMIR (TR),
Jens HAUSER (DK), Falk HEINRICH (DK), Ingrid HOELZL (HK), Janina HOTH
(AT), Leonardo IMPETT (CH), Ozgun Eylul ISCEN (TR), Stephen JONES (AU),
Jonas JøRGENSEN (DK), David KADISH (DK), Raivo KELOMEES (EE), Harald
KRAEMER (HK), Katja KWASTEK (NL), Nathalia LAVIGNE (BR), Jungmin LEE
(US), George LEGRADY (US), Biljana LEKOVIć (RS), Laura LEUZZI (UK),
Michelle LEWIS-KING (UK), Zizi LI (US), Patrick LICHTY (AE), Jose-Carlos
MARIATEGUI (PE), Claire MC ANDREW (UK), Andre MINTZ (BR), José Ramón
Alcalá MELLADO (ES), Caroline MENEZES (UK), Romi MIKULINSKY (IL), Maria
MIRE (PT), Goki MIYAKITA (JP), Jo Ana MORFIN (MX), Anna NACHER (PL),
Martín NADAL (AT), Frieder NAKE (DE), Mark NUNES (US), Margrét Elísabet
ÓLAFSDóTTIR (IS), Robin OPPENHEIMER (US), Maciej OZOG (PL), Susanne
ØSTBY SæTHER (NO), Randall PACKER (SG), Filipe PAIS (FR), Chiara
PASSA (IT), Ana PERAICA (HR), Treva PULLEN (), Richard RINEHART (US),
Viola RÜHSE (AT), Chris SALTER (CA), Ashley SCARLETT (CA), Devon
SCHILLER (AT), Alberto SEMELER (BR), Gabriela Aceves SEPúLVEDA (CA),
Paul SERMAN (UK), Rasa SMITE (LT), Nina SOSNA (RU), Julian STADON (UK),
Iván TERCEROS (EC), Aneta TRAJKOSKI (AU), Polona TRATNIK (SI), Reynaldo
THOMPSON (MX), Tomohiro UESHIBA (JP), Yael Eylat VAN ESSEN (IL), Erandy
VERGARA-VARGAS (CA), Yvonne VOLKART (CH), Carmen Gil VROLIJK (CO), Jacob
WAMBERG (DK), Florian WIENCEK (AT), Kirk WOOLFOORD (UK), Soojung YI
(KR), Martin ZEILINGER (DE), Joel ZIKA (AU)

**MAH Honorary Board:**
Rudolf ARNHEIM†, Douglas DAVIS†, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter
WEIBEL

**MAH Conference Series Board: * *
Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana Universität), Sean CUBITT (Goldsmiths,
UK), Oliver GRAU (Danube University, AT), Linda HENDERSON (University of
Texas, US), Erkki HUHTAMO (University of California, US), Douglas KAHN
(University of New South Wales, AU), Machiko KUSAHARA (Waseda
University, JP), Tim LENOIR (Davis University, US), Gunalan NADARAJAN
(Ann Arbor School of Art&Design, US), Paul THOMAS (University of New
South Wales, AU)

Venues:
Danube University / Located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World
Heritage Wachau region, Danube University is the only public university
in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering
low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life-long
learners. Located at both a modern university campus and in the Göttweig
Monastery, the Dept. for Image Science is an internationally unique
institution for research and innovative teaching with an international
faculty, at this point 120 scholars from various nations and
disciplines. The innovative approach of the Department for Image Science
with the close connection to practice has developed the Archive of
Digital Art and in 2006 founded the low-residency
MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA answering the need for international,
post-graduate studies. www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
Vienna / The vibrant capital of the Republic of Austria in Central
Europe meeting international travel standards with safe and exciting
surroundings that embrace culture both old and new. Planning for Vienna
is being organized with partner institutions and colleagues. Fast and
frequent public transportation between Vienna and Krems allows for a
blending of two locations into one venue, distributing separate days in
each venue.

**PARTNERS: **
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VIENNA // THE GOVERNMENT OF LOWER AUSTRIA //
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN // THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART // DARIAH-EU
// ERASMUS MUNDUS MEDIA ARTS CULTURES // ACADEMIA EUROPAEA // LEONARDO
// KUNSTHALLE KREMS

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