Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the\u00a0Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – Montr\u00e9al, 5-8 November 2015<\/p>\n
Version fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/p>\n Video Presentations Online<\/strong><\/p>\n Re-Create 2015 Conference, the Bridge Panel session and the Emerging Researchers’ Symposium was a great success! The quality of the various presentations, events and discussions that took place over the course of the 5 days was highly praised, and this is due to our participants.<\/p>\n The video documentation of the presentations and the Q&A sessions is available on the MediaArtsHistoriesArchive and on the Hexagram Network Youtube channel.<\/p>\n Photos are available on the Hexagram Flickr page.<\/p>\n LINK TO ALL VIDEO PRESENTATIONS SORTED BY AUTHOR<\/a><\/p>\n EVENT OVERVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n MAH Re-CREATE 2015 will take place from November 5-8 Re-Create 2015<\/strong>\u00a0will mark the 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. \u2028The conference will be hosted by two Hexagram sites at Concordia University and Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM), core antennas of the largest network dedicated to research-based creative practice in media art, design and technology. The venues are centrally located in vibrant, downtown Montr\u00e9al \u2013 the digital arts capital of North America.\u00a0The conference will include plenary sessions of individual and panel presentations, workshops and three keynotes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The conference returns to Canada since the inaugural event Refresh! in Banff in 2005 to reflect on and re-examine topics of driving concern that have continually arisen at the previous MAH editions in Berlin (2007), Melbourne (2009), Liverpool (2011) and Riga (2013). The entanglements among practice, theory and method within media art, design, science and technology are increasingly critical to academic and cultural milieus. Concurrently, the inclusion of artistic disciplines involving technological-cultural instruments, concepts and methods is increasingly supported internationally by granting agencies and policy bodies. This has facilitated the emergence of practice-driven research paradigms, along with questions of method, validation, opportunities and problematics that such paradigms imply. Re-Create 2015 seeks to broadly interrogate the historical entanglements of practice-driven research within a wide and diverse set of international sites, disciplines and contexts related to the intertwined histories of media art, science and technology.<\/p>\n Originating in Qu\u00e9bec, Research-Creation is part of the growing global movement in university research contexts to embrace creative practice as a legitimate form of knowledge production within new knowledge societies. Research-Creation is a developing research trend linking the interpretive disciplines (humanities and social sciences) with creative ones (art and design) that involves the creation of knowledge in and through creative material and performative practice. Since 2001, Research-Creation within Hexagram specifically has played a major role in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada enabling and sustaining new forms of art, design and performance to emerge within the framework of technological culture. The theme of Re-Create 2015 continues methodological discussions that Hexagram has conducted over many years involving a range of international scholars, practitioners and local research council policy makers. Re-Create conference thus follows up and extends those discussions by focusing on six core thematic questions:<\/p>\n (1). Theoretical Curren<\/strong><\/span>ts<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>How do the Senses, Animals and the Apocalypse inform research-creation practices ? (2). Site<\/strong><\/span>s<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>How have sites of research and practice evolved in <\/span>Latin America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Sweden and Indigenous Cultures? (3). Histories of the Studio La<\/strong><\/span>b<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>How have Australian, British, Canadian and American artists historically worked in academia, industry and generative art?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n (4).\u00a0New Methods : <\/strong>What can the concept of co-production (STS), <\/span>musique concr\u00e8te, <\/span><\/i>\u00a0intersectionality theory and critical race studies, as well as the debates about the \u201cpractice turn\u201d in higher education provide to the historical and critical positioning of practice?<\/span><\/p>\n (5). Digital Humanities and Critical Practices :<\/strong> What are the challenges and the future of transdisciplinary collaboration? What can media archeology do for the humanities and contemporary academic culture? How has failure impacted practice-led research<\/span>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n (6).\u00a0Curatorial Actions and Practices : <\/strong>How have philosophy, industrial creation, feminism, sound and \u201cimageness\u201d historically entered into curatorial practices?<\/span><\/p>\n PRESENTERS<\/strong> :\u00a0Clarisse BARDIOT, Michele BARKER, Giselle BEIGUELMAN, Georgina BORN, Roberta BUIANI, Yan BREULEUX, Andres BURBANO, Michael CENTURY, Owen CHAPMAN, <\/span>Budhaditya CHATTOPADHYAY, Barbara CLAUSEN,<\/span> Hart COHEN, \u00a0Ricardo DAL FARRA, Michael DARROCH, Alison DE FREN, Sara DIAMOND, \u00a0Lori EMERSON, Maria FERNANDEZ, Francesca FRANCO, Darko FRITZ, Monika Kin GAGNON, Laura GRACIA, Orit HALPERN, Kevin HAMILTON, Jens HAUSER, Mark HAYWARD, Paul HEYER, Stefan HOLTGEN, David HOWES, \u00a0Alice Ming Wai JIM, \u00a0Martyn JOLLY, Srajana KAIKINI, Katja KWASTEK, Fran\u00e7ois-Joseph LAPOINTE, Martina LEEKER, Jason LEWIS, \u00a0Patrick LICHTY, Alison LOADER, Jung-Yeon MA, Roger MALINA, Jos\u00e9-Carlos MARIATEGUI, Jelena MARTINOVIC, Patrick McCRAY, Gabriel MENOTTI, \u00a0Jo Ana MORFIN, Anna MUNSTER, Ignacio NIETO, Sally Jane NORMAN, Jussi PARIKKA, Christiane PAUL, Anthony OATES, Jesper OLSSON, Anna ORRGHEN, \u00a0Maciej OZOG, Simon PENNY, \u00a0Shintaro MIYAZAKI, \u00a0Cheryl SIM, <\/span>Morten S\u00f8NDERGAARD,<\/span> Ghislain THIBAULT, Darren WERSHLER, Ruth WEST, Solvita ZARINA<\/span><\/p>\n Conference c0-chair: Dr. Christopher Salter, Co-Director, Hexagram; Associate Professor Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University<\/p>\n Conference co-chair: Gis\u00e8le Trudel, Professor, \u00a0School of Visual and Media Arts, Arts Faculty, University of Qu\u00e9bec at Montreal. Trudel is the former Director of Hexagram-UQAM (2011-13) and Co-Director of Hexagram (2012-15).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n The Emerging Researchers\u2019 symposium
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\n<\/strong>At Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Coeur des Sciences, Agora Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec, 175, avenue du Pr\u00e9sident-Kennedy, Montr\u00e9al and\u00a0at Concordia \u00a0University, E.V. building, 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montr\u00e9al
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\n<\/strong>A special one-day pre-conference event will take place on\u00a0November 4, 2015:\u00a0The Emerging Researchers (ER) symposium<\/a><\/strong>, organized and peer-reviewed by PhD students. The ER Symposium highlights the contributions of new scholars in the expanding interdisciplinary domain of media art histories and focuses on questions of interdisciplinarity, institutional versus anti-institutional research-driven practice, and the entanglements of infrastructure, funding, power and tradition that have historically grounded \u201cresearch.\u201d The symposium will be a unique opportunity for graduate students, recent PhDs and Postdocs as well as emerging practitioners outside of the academic milieu, to present their research and practices in the context of an international community of scholars and students, expand on and exchange ideas in working groups and receive feedback from established mentor experts in the field.<\/p>\n