Media Art History » Re:Trace 2017 Program Overview

DAY 1 – Danube University Krems

Locations at Danube University Campus: Audimax, Cinema Kesselhaus, Room 2.2 (Main Building)

Poster Session at Audimax Foyer


08:30	Registration // Audimax
09:00	Official Opening: Welcome by Rektor Friedrich Faulhammer and Conference Chairs Oliver Grau (Danube U) and Inge Hinterwaldner (HU Berlin) (Patronage: Landeshauptfrau Johanna Mikl-Leitner) //Audimax
09:20	Keynote by Ryszard KLUSZCZYŃSKI (University of Łodz, PL): Monument as Archive: artistic strategies from anti- to meta-memorial (Introduction by Inge Hinterwaldner)
10:20	Coffee Break

	Stream Media Art & Politics (Audimax)
10:45 - 12:15	Cybernetics, computing and the question of representation in art Chair: Jacob WAMBERG
	Steve DIXON (SG): Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism
	Gerald NESTLER (AT): Aesthetics of Resolution
	Kevin HAMILTON (US): Beyond Visualization: Genealogies of Unmapped Complexity in Media Art and Technology
	Andres BURBANO (CO): The MONIAC and the Arts

	Stream Sound (Cinema Kesselhaus)
10:45 - 12:15	Early experimental strategies in the image-sound-complex Chair: Wendy COONES
	Stefanie BRÄUER (CH): Electronic Oscillography in Early 1950s Experimental Film
	Ashley SCARLETT (CA)/Martin ZEILINGER (UK): Rethinking Affordance
	Soojung YI (KR): When 'new media art' became the solution to endow cultural identity to its community? The history of new media art in South Korea since 1980s
	Dmitry GALKIN (RU): Art, Science and Technology in Russia: current affairs and ambitions for the future (from institutional and artistic perspectives)

	Stream Early New Media (Room 2.2)
10:45 - 12:15	Generative Art Chair: Ksenia FEDOROVA
	Frieder NAKE (DE): Georg Nees & Harold Cohen. Retracing Origins
	Caroline MENEZES (UK): From Painting to Coding: The Art of Harold Cohen
	Sjoukje van der MEULEN (NL): Rethinking Painting: Nechvatal's Computer Virus Project
	Robin OPPENHEIMER (US): You have been processed! Exploring Early Artists' & Engineers' Collaborations with Video Processing Machines

12:15	Lunch Break & Poster Session of Media Art & Digital Humanities projects and research tools in the hall

	Stream Media Art & Politics (Audimax)
13:45 - 15:15	Internet infrastructure under scrutiny Chair: Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER
	David GAUTHIER (NL)/Michael DIETER (UK)/Marc TUTERS (NL): Mailing lists are dead, long live mailing lists! – periodising discourses and infrastructures of nettime, -empyre-, Spectre, and CRUMB
	Natalia FEDOROVA (RU): Internet of Names. Poetics of Infrastructure
	Martín NADAL (ES)/César ESCUDERO ANDALUZ (ES): Critical mining, Blockchain and Bitcoin in contemporary art
	Andre MINTZ (BR): After Internet? F.A.T. Lab's farewell and reconsiderations of the post-internet trope in art

	Stream Sound (Cinema Kesselhaus)
	Session: Sound Art Chair: Ana PERAICA
	Biljana LEKOVIĆ (RS): History/Practices of Sound Art in Serbia
	Joo Yun LEE (US): Speculative-sensible Experience in Ryoji Ikeda’s Audiovisual Installation and Performance Inside and Outside of the White Cube
	Gabriela Aceves SEPÚLVEDA (CA): Towards an alternative history of Electronic Music: Latin American Women Composers, 1888-1980

	Stream Early New Media (Room 2.2)
13:45 - 15:15	From Trans-Local to Telematic Chair: Jon CATES
	Rod BANTJES (CA): Governing Publics: the Politics of Optical media in 18th-century England and America
	Patrick LICHTY (AE): the world, Another 24 Hours: Practice-Based Research and the works of Robert Adrian X & Bill Bartlett
	Paul SERMON/Claire MCANDREW (UK): 3x4: a telematics/architectural hypersurface
	Joanna GRIFFIN (IN): Creative Encounters and Subaltern Aesthetic in the Early Years of the Indian Space Program

15:15	Coffee Break

	Stream Media Art & Politics (Audimax)
15:45 - 17:15	Politics - Ecology, politics, and aesthetics I Chair: Andres BURBANO
	Aaron BURTON (AU): Ecological intimacy and unmanned photography: drones, GoPros, and satellites
	Jens HAUSER (DK): Toward Greenness Studies: Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings
	Yvonne VOLKART (CH): Re-Tracing Aesthetic Strategies in Times of Electronic Waste
	Viola RÜHSE (AT): Facebook's symbolic Headquarters MPK20 by Frank Gehry

	Stream Sound (Cinema Kesselhaus)
15:45 - 17:15	Modulating sensory perception with media cross-over Chair: Sjoukje van der MEULEN
	Katharina GSÖLLPOINTNER (AT): Digital Kinesthesia. Kinesthetic modes of media aesthetics in digital art
	Nina SOSNA (PT)/Ksenia FEDOROVA (RU): Connective tissues in media interferences
	Aura BALANESCU (RO): Media Art: Trans-Perception, Trans-Repräsentation, Trans-Consciousness

	Stream Early New Media (Room 2.2)
15:45 - 17:15	Soft and Fluid Media Chair: Katja KWASTEK
	Jonas JØRGENSEN (DK): From Soft Sculpture to Soft Robotics: Retracing a Physical Aesthetics of Bio-Morphic Softness
	Hava ALDOUBY (IL): Shifting Sands: Sand as Medium in Israeli New Media Art
	Laura BELOFF (DK): Techno-Organic Practices in the Nordic Art
	Falk HEINRICH (DK): Researchers within Arts–Based Academia: Episteme and Techne Fluidity

17:30	Keynote Morten SØNDERGAARD (Aalborg University, DK): Archive Agencies. Tracing the Implied Producers of Media Art Collections (Introduction Jacob Wamberg)
18:45	Opening Drinks and exhibition tour at Kunsthalle Krems (Welcome by Director Florian Steininger) Ceremony: MediaArtHistories International Award to Werner Nekes (posthumous), Laudatio by Member of Award Committee Oliver Grau

DAY 2 – Göttweig Abbey

Locations at Göttweig Abbey, Main Building, 1. Floor: Brunnensaal, Sommerrefektorium, Room “Kremstal”


08:45 - 09:20	Transfer from Danube University to Göttweig Abbey
09:30	Welcome to Göttweig Abbey
09:45	Keynote Wendy Hui Kyong CHUN (Brown University, US): Approximate Repetitions: Latent Big Data (Introduction by Inge Hinterwaldner)
10:45	Coffee Break

	Stream Politics (Brunnensaal)
11:15 - 12:45	Politics: Political and aesthetic impacts of automated classifications Chair: Morten SØNDERGAARD
	Maciej OŻÓG (PL): Tearing down the biometric cage: deconstructing biometric surveillance through art
	Jennifer GRADECKI (US)/Derek CURRY (US): Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency: Prototyping Counterveillance
	Devon SCHILLER (AT): The physiognomic (un)genre: Challenges of Automated Facial Expression Analysis-Based Media Art to both the Art and Science of Face
	Mehul BHATT (DE): THE SHAPE OF THE MOVING IMAGE: Perspectives from Spatial Cognition and Artificial Intelligence

	Stream Media Art Futures/Histories (Sommerrefektorium)
11:15 - 12:45	Artistic and curatorial narratives of memory Chair: Frieder Nake
	Darko FRITZ (HR): Interdisciplinary Multimedia at the 3rd International Artists Meetings in Vela Luka 1972
	José R. ALCALÁ (ES)/Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (ES): Interactive multimedia creations at the International Museum of Electrographic Artworks in Cuenca (Spain), 1994-2006. Pioneer productions for the construction of hypermedia narratives
	Margrét Elísabet OLAFSDÓTTIR (IS): The Vasulka Chamber and Media Art in Iceland
	Leonardo IMPETT (CH): Robot Aesthetics and Cultural Imperialism: the Double Hermeneutic of Computational Photography

12:45	Lunch Break, optionally a guided tour through the Abbey

	Stream Politics (Brunnensaal)
14:15 - 15:45	Session: net.art revisited Chair: Janina HOTH
	Raivo KELOMEES (EE): From Net Art to Post-Internet Art: The Cyclical Nature of Art Movements
	Rasa SMITE (LV) /Raitis SMITS (LV): Fields – Manifesting the Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media
	Filipe PAIS (FR): From bits to paper: A short history of the aesthetics of rematerialization
	Jon CATES (US): whois LaTurbo Avedon, Netochka Nezvanova and/or Rrose Sélavy?

	Stream Media Art Futures/Histories (Sommerrefektorium)
14:15 - 15:45	Histories of media technology Chair: José R. ALCALÁ
	Katja KWASTEK (NL): Fictitious Future Pasts? Artists reflecting the transhistorical entanglements of telecommunication infrastructures, (post-)colonial trading, and geopolitics
	Grant BOLLMER (US): Gaming Formalisms and the Aesthetics of Empathy
	Ozgun Eylul ISCEN (US): Alternative Histories of New Media: Telecommunication Technologies and Media Arts in the Middle East
	Randall PACKER (SG): Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communication Revolution

15:45	Coffee Break

	Stream Politics (Brunnensaal)
16:15 - 17:45	Retracing media art and its precursors in Latin America Chair: Devon SCHILLER
	José-Carlos MARÍATEGUI (PE)/ Elisa ARCA (PE): Teresa Burga: a pioneer multimedia and information artist
	Reynaldo THOMPSON (MX): Digital art in Latin America
	Erandy VERGARA-VARGAS (CA): Re-Tracing Methods: Rethinking Media Art Histories and Relations between the North and the Global South
	Carmen Gil VROLIJK (CO): A genealogy of art and technology in Colombia: 1976-2016

	Stream Media Art Futures/Histories (Sommerrefektorium)
16:15 - 17:45	Curation and art production in crowdsourced and networked situations Chair: Ryszard KLUSZCZYŃSKI
	Zizi LI (US): theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
	Mark NUNES (US): Frames and Mosaics: Appalachian Photography and the Crowdsourced Archive Frame
	Kanokwan TRAKULYINGCHAROEN (AT): Mediascapes in 'Cities on the Move in Bangkok' (1999)
	Manuela NAVEAU (AT): Crowd and Art. Art and Participation on the Internet

18:00	Transfer to Krems

DAY 3 – Academy of Sciences Vienna

Locations at the Academy of Sciences Vienna: Festsaal, Sitzungssaal, Johannessaal

Poster Session at “Aula”


08:00 - 09:30	Transfer from Danube University to the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna (ÖAW)
09:45	Welcome ÖAW by Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Oliver Grau
10:00	“DARIAH” Keynote Sarah KENDERDINE (EPFL, CH): Postdigital Pasts (Introduction Eveline Wandl-Vogt)
11:00	Coffee Break

	Stream Digital Arts, Archives and Museums (Festsaal)
11:30 - 13:00	Dariah Connectivity Part I: Collection - Archiving - Preservation Chair: Eveline WANDL-VOGT
	Francesca FRANCO (IT): Algorithmic Signs, Venice 2017: Challenges in the Curation and Documentation of Early Computational and Media Art
	Giselle BEIGUELMAN (BR): Museums of the Unfinished to Ephemeral Memories: notes on net art conservation
	Janina HOTH (AT): Scholar's crux: Methods of documentation through the lens of archive theory
	Annet DEKKER (NL): Between light and dark archiving

	Stream Image (Sitzungsaal)
11:30 - 13:00	Aesthetics I - Theories of the post-digital image Chair: Inge HINTERWALDNER
	Ingrid HOELZL (HK): Postimage: On the Future Evolution of the image and its Theory
	Ana NACHER (PL): The post-digital imagery as relational object
	Yael Eylat VAN-ESSEN (IL): From the Digital to the Post-Digital – the Photographic Image

	Johannessaal
11:30 - 13:00	Cultural roots of media art practices Chair: Caroline MENEZES
	Ana PERAICA (HR): Post-digital paradigm shift: from Narcissus to Perseus
	Bahar AKGÜN (TK)/Mine ÖZKAR (TR): Gaze and Geometry: comparing two languages of vision from Medieval Eastern and Modern Western visual compositions
	Alberto SEMELER (BR): Cybercontemporary art: mutations and digital contagion
	Manuelle FREIRE (CA): Training in the complex adaptive systems of media art: A critique of the mythologies of art and interdisciplinary learning in higher education

13:00	Lunch Break & Poster Session of Digital Humanities projects and research tools in the hall

	Stream Digital Arts, Archives and Museums (Festsaal)
14:30 - 16:00	Dariah Connectivity Part II: Preservation strategies II: Dynamic archiving Chair: Frieder Nake
	Ann-Marie DUGUET (FR): The anarchive series as a challenge between art and information. Another approach of media art history today
	Richard RINEHART (US): Code-Switching: Queering Media Art Histories
	George LEGRADY (US): Projects in Visualizing Data 1992-2017
	Patricia FALCAO: tba

	Stream Image (Sitzungssaal)
14:30 - 16:00	Aesthetics II - New media art theory mashup Chair: Inge Hinterwaldner
	Jacob WAMBERG (DK): Return of operativity: Prolegomena to a grand narrative of media in deep time
	Denisa KERA (US)/Cynthia Selin (US): Parlor of Futures: Tarot cards, Futures Techniques and Octave Obdurant's 'Cosmographic Comparator'
	Valentino CATRICALÀ (IT): The social impact of Media Art
	Pau ALSINA (ES): Ethico-onto-epistemologies of Media Art: A case study of the 'Protocol for Interdisciplinary Research' project

	Johannessaal
14:30 - 16:00	Re-tracing practice-based methodologies in Media Art Histories Chair: Jon CATES
	Laura LEUZZI (UK): Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories
	Goki MIYAKITA (JP)/Keiko OKAWA (JP): Design of Narrative Book Collection: Redesigning Pre-Modern Japanese Books in the Digital Age
	Beatriz ESCRIBANO BELMAR (ES)/José R. ALCALÁ (ES): The artistic contribution of the electrographic practices in the archeology of electronic art

16:00	Coffee Break

	Stream Digital Arts, Archives and Museums (Festsaal)
16:30 - 18:00	Dariah Connectivity Roundtable: Six decades of Digital Arts & museums - a new infrastructure Chair: Wendy Coones
	Discussants:
	Giselle BEIGUELMAN (BR)
	Howard BESSER (US)
	Patricia FALÇAO (UK)
	Oliver GRAU (AT)
	Sarah KENDERDINE (CH)
	Marianne PING HUANG (DK)
	Christoph THUN-HOHENSTEIN (AT)

	Stream Image (Sitzungssaal)
16:30 - 18:00	Reframing social artistic initiatives since the 1960s Chair: Valentino CATRICALÁ
	Stephen JONES (AU): Community Activist Video and the origins of Video Art
	Catherine BERNARD (US): Electronic Disturbance Theater, Floating Point Unit, Fakeshop
	Adam LAUDER (CA): Science/Fiction: Canadian Information Art in the 1970s
	Rania GAFAAR (DE): Crisis as Critical Practice in the MENA

	Johannessaal
16:30 - 18:00	Ecology, Politics, Aesthetics II Chair: Pau ALSINA
	Clara Boj TOVAR (ES)/Diego José Díaz GARCÍA (ES): Hybrid ecologies on the anthropocene: Mar Menor Research
	Sara GARZON (US): Amaru Cholango in How to Poeticize Technology
	Nathalia LAVIGNE (BR): Art on Instagram: Imaginary museums, counter-collections and moving images
	Polonia TRATNIK (SI): Media art and Politics: The Question of Tomorrow

18:00	Closing Remarks & Announcement of the next venue (2019)
18:30	Public Keynote Martin KEMP (Oxford University, UK): Computerising Leonardo: a visual dialogue from 1988 to now(Introduction by Oliver Grau)
19:30	Conference Finissage