From: Image Science <Image.Science@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 15:26:36 +0200
MEDIA ARTS CULTURES Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Erasmus+ funded - European Master of Excellence KREMS / AALBORG / LODZ / SINGAPORE Call for 2019 applications open soon www.mediaartscultures.eu With support extended to 3.7 million Euro, the European master of excellence program “Media Arts Cultures – Media AC” will broaden in 2019-2024. This distinctive award is based on offering high-quality international learning opportunities for students in an emerging field and also affirms the importance of Media Art research and practice for the cultural and educational future of Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Media Arts Cultures is organized jointly by Danube University Krems (Austria, lead) Aalborg University (Denmark) University of Lodz (Poland) and Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore). Associated partners: Archive of Digital Art, Ars Electronica Linz,DAM, Europeana,FACT, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Instrument Inventors Initiative, imai, Impakt Festival, MOCAK,monochrome, Neural Magazine, SPEKTRUM, WRO Art Center, ZKM The language of instruction is English and includes taught semesters, internship a master's thesis supervised by lecturers from the partner universities. MediaAC faculty include: Andreas Broeckmann, Wendy Coones , Palle Dahlstedt, Steven Dixon, Oliver Grau, Jens Hauser, Elizabeth Jochum,Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Wolfgang Muench, Maciej Ożóg, Christiane Paul, Ana Peraica,Katarzyna Prajzner, Jeffrey Shaw, Morten Søndergaard, Audrey Wongand many others. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MediaAC is one of the few culture-centered Erasmus Mundus programs, and the only program connecting culture to the digital arts. Digital media art plays a major role at international festivals and in contemporary culture. But, in part due to the obsolescence of presentation equipment and storage formats, media art has not yet fully arrived in archives and museums. The collection, exhibition and conservation strategies of digital art, as well as their mediation, are necessary for the modernization of art institutions. The joint Master of Arts MediaAC aims to generate a better understanding of the image revolution. It addresses the needs of the evolving fields related to the futures and histories of Media Art. MediaAC provides education and training for future specialists in Media Arts Cultures and prepare them for emerging careers in the creative and cultural sectors, research and academia. Selected topics like Media Cultural Histories & Heritage, Archiving, Experience Design, Media Arts Theory, New Media Aesthetics, Curating & Arts Management, or Media Arts Futures provides students both internationally-advanced theoretical as well as practical knowledge in the Media Arts, through a singular combination of pedagogical foci, trans-disciplinary approaches, and critical thinking in connection to the needs of both academic and non-academic stakeholders. Media Arts Cultures is a 2-year mobility program, enabling students to study across Europe and in Asia. Students spend three semesters at different universities and write a Master Thesis at the best-suited partner during the final semester. Upon completion, students receive a 120 ECTS joint master degree in Media Arts Cultures from three universities allowing graduates to further pursue a PhD within Europe or other international higher education regions. Each year, 19 of the best EU and non-EU candidates will be offered Erasmus+ fully-funded scholarships for the duration of the program. Other funding from the MediaAC Consortium and external-sources are also available. The MediaAC Consortium invites dedicated and energetic applicants from all countries and all relevant fields to apply. Contact: Media Arts Culture Consortium Coordination Department for Image Science Danube University, Austria www.mediaartscultures.eu www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw www.digitalartarchive.at www.mediaarthistory.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DASH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DASH&A=1
From: Anne Helmond <a.helmond@UVA.NL>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:25:05 +0200
The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections A three-day conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 19-21, 2019. The third biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference. Organized by the University of Amsterdam. *** Submissions Open *** Submissions are now open for The Web that Was (RESAW19) and you can upload your submission here: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=resaw19. Please read the conference-specific instructions linked at the top of the submission form. Help with the conference tool can be found here: https://easychair.org/help/how_to_submit. The deadline for submissions is October 19, 2018. *** Keynote speakers *** Megan Ankerson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair, Simon Fraser University Florian Cramer, Professor of Applied Research, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Olia Lialina, Professor of New Media, Merz Akademie Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Stanford University *** Special event *** The conference will host a lecture-performance by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and guests on the history and preservation of Amsterdam’s early internet culture. *** Call for contributions *** As the first generation of web users goes grey, it’s clear that the internet they remember is no longer around. The early web is now simply another object of nostalgia. Tech anniversaries are a dime a dozen, while once cool digital aesthetics have made several ironic comebacks. All of this reinforces a sense that we’ve left behind a digital history that was as clunky and slow as it was idealistic and naïve. How can we rethink this relationship to the web’s past and the past web? This question is crucial today as the open web continues to lose ground to platforms and apps. How can this history be reconstructed and re-evaluated, and how are web archives and web histories impacted by technological change? What do traditional problems of preservation and historiography look like at scale? And what stories capture the diverse transformations and continuities that mark nearly 30 years of web history? There is of course no single web history, materially or conceptually speaking. There is instead a politics of archives, technologies and discourses that needs to be uncovered. How can we expand our view of web history beyond Silicon Valley and celebrated cases? And how can we reveal the technological, social and economic contexts that have shaped not just the present web, but how we access its past? What role do archives play in uncovering the histories of the web, platforms and apps, as well as their production and usage contexts? This conference aims to bring together scholars, archivists and artists interested in preserving, portraying and otherwise engaging with the web that was. In addition to paper submissions, we invite proposals for audiovisual installations, posters, software demos, or other media that connects to the conference themes. Submissions in the form of an abstract may relate to, but are not limited by, the following topics: * Web and internet histories * Historicizing the web and digital culture * Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and critiquing periodizations * Past futures and paths not taken * Platformization and the changing structure of the web * Social imaginaries of the early web * Archives and access * Research methods for studying the archived web * Methods for platform and app histories * Ethics of (studying) web archives * Technicity of web archives * Software histories * Archived audiences and histories of internet use * Identity, intersectionality and web history * Digital activism and web history * Histories of net criticism * Media industries and their online histories * Web histories elsewhere: forgotten and marginalized web cultures * Realtime, time travel and other web temporalities * Future histories and the archive of tomorrow *** Submissions *** Submissions are welcomed from all fields and disciplines, and we would particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career researchers to participate. * Individual papers of 20 minutes length (750-word abstract and a short author bio of 100-150 words). * Panel sessions consisting of three individual papers, introduced by a chair (750-word abstract for each paper, a brief description of 300 words of the purpose of the panel, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for each speaker). * Posters, demonstrations, and audio/video/interactive installations (short abstract of no more than 500 words, a list of A/V or other requirements, and a short author bio of 100-150 words) * Workshops (a 500-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for the workshop organiser(s)). Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer review. *** Timetable *** May 2018 – dates out June 2018 – first call for papers July 2018 – second call for papers August 2018 – third call for papers September 2018 – final call for papers and submissions open 19 October 2018 – deadline submission of abstracts December 2018 – notification of acceptance 19–21 June 2019 – conference *** Organizing Committee *** Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam, NL Michael Stevenson, University of Amsterdam, NL In collaboration with the RESAW Conference Committee: Niels Brügger, Aarhus University, DK (organiser 2015) Jane Winters, University of London, UK (organiser 2017) Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg, LU (coming organiser 2021) *** Program Committee *** Susan Aasman, University of Groningen, NL Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, NL Megan Ankerson, University of Michigan, USA Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel, IL Josephine Bosma, independent art critic and theorist, NL Sally Chambers, Ghent University, BE Frédéric Clavert, C2DH Luxembourg Annet Dekker, University of Amsterdam, NL Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, UK Sophie Gebeil, Aix-Marseille University, FR Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah, USA Daniel Gomes, arquivo.pt, PT Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, NL Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, CA Francesca Musiani, CNRS, FR Claude Mussou, Ina, FR Janne Nielsen, Aarhus University, DK Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM, FR Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam, NL Bernhard Rieder, University of Amsterdam, NL Marta Severo, University of Paris Nanterre, FR Kees Teszelszky, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Royal Library, NL Fred Turner, Stanford University, USA Peter Webster, Webster Research & Consulting, UK Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, DE *** Sponsors *** The conference is financed in part by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni in connection with the projects “The Web that Was” (275-45-006) and “App ecosystems: A critical history of apps” (275-45-009). *** Contact *** Website: https://www.thewebthatwas.net Email: organizers@thewebthatwas.net --- Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ | @silvertje Highlighted publication: Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DASH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DASH&A=1
From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:21:54 +0200
MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2019 – RE:SOUND The 8thInternational Conference in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Aalborg University, Denmark, August 20-23, 2019 The 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – RE:SOUND – will be hosted by RELATE (Research Laboratory for Art and Technology), Aalborg University and will be held at the CREATE campus, Aalborg, Denmark, August 20-23, 2019 in partnership with the STRUER Sound Art Festival and CATCH – Center for Art & Tech in Elsinor. RE:SOUND will host four days with 10 tracks of paper sessions, panels, workshops, practice-based interventions, exhibitions, performances, poster sessions, a PhD workshop and keynotes. The tracks were generated based on the first call for topics contextualized under the wide frame of media art history and sound. Each track has several smaller thematic sessions for submissions that are chaired by experts in the field. Through the 10 tracks (listed below), RE:SOUND MAH2019 calls for proposals that revisit and (re)investigate, through a variety of prisms and on a multiplicity of trajectories, the ontologies and epistemologies of Media Art History as a field of practice and research. Moreover, there are also specific calls for proposals investigating sound in Media Art + theories + histories + practices. Based on the first call for topics, the call is now open for individual submissions within the following tracks (all of which are further detailed and specified at http://www.mediaarthistory.org/resound-maincall) 1. Track: Resounding Media Art: Archaeologies, Indeterminate Textualities, and Possible Futures This track will revisit the foundations and formulations, the contextual and epistemological entanglements, of the histories of Media Art. 2. Track: Sounding Difference: Gender, Sound, and Technology This track calls for proposals that investigate and discuss the histories of women in sound art through academic papers and performances. 3. Track: Sound and Voice: Art Practices and Politics This track calls for proposals and participants that explore the histories and contemporaneity of art practices working with sound and voice as a vehicle for memory and political agency. 4. Track: Art and Technology: Histories, Methodologies, Practices The track calls for proposals that explore and contextualize the histories, methodologies and practices of art and technology. 5. Track: Sound Art Curating. Critical Histories, Strategies and Practices. The track calls for proposals that addresses sound curation, which areinvestigating the critical histories of sound art exhibitions and/or exploring the role and influence of the curator on sound art. 6. Track: Sound within Bodies, Moist Media Practices, Environment and Life-World: Organisms, Geology and Ecological Niches. The track calls for proposals looking closer at the wide area of sound-art based practices and theories that are concerned with embodied, fleshy, moist, medical, scientific, environmental approaches and formulations. The topics may address sound in relation to bodies of biological organisms (human and non-human), natural environment, ecology and geology. 7. Track: The Return of the Sonic Real. The track calls for proposals that explore New Materialism, Speculative Realism and the phenomenology of sound in sonic practices experimenting and operating in-between the sound object as a vital sonic/material hybrid and the psychology of the sonic real. 8. Track: Archive Archives Archiving This track calls for proposals that address the situation, histories, and current / future challenges of archives of media art, Topics might include: the challenges of archiving sound, archiving v. collecting, the material/medial condition of archives in general and of sonic objects in particular, leaking archives, post-digital and po This track call for proposals that do not fit into any of the tracks above, and that are addressing general topics within the field of the histories of media art, science and technology 10. Track: Matters in Flux – Ph.d. Summer Camp in collaboration with CATCH – Centre for Art and Tech This track calls for proposals from Ph.D. students working in-between practice and theory for a summer camp at CATCH culminating at the MAH2019. DEADLINE for abstracts: 1 November, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be announced by 15 December, 2018. Individual proposals should consist of a 300-word abstract. Submitters should upload a short bio file (Word), no longer than ½ page per person. Further details regarding the call and the tracks, including link to the submission page: www.mediaarthistory.org/resound-maincall/ * * * There will be a call for full papers for a special issue of the Seismograf Journal (www.seismograf.org), edited by Laura Beloff and Morten Søndergaard, camera ready papers, deadline 1 September 2019. There will be other publication opportunities, TBA. * * * The conference will be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including STUER Sound Art Festival, special talks in the B&O Lab, a special track of performances and workshops in the CREATE building, and a Ph.D. workshop at CATCH * * * MAH2019 RESOUND Conference Main Chair: Morten SØNDERGAARD. Conference Co-Chair: Laura BELOFF *** Conference Advisory Board: Jens HAUSER, Jacob WAMBERG, Ryan NOLAN, Geoff COX, Tanya TOFT AG, Dieter DANIELS, Jan THOBEN, Jacob ERIKSEN (Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Berlin University of the Arts), Gabriela Aceves SEPÚLVEDA, Luz Maria SANCHEZ CARDONA (UAM, Mexico), Falk HEINRICH, Elizabeth JOCHUM, Palle DAHLSTEDT, Daniel Cermak SASSENRATH, Magdalena ZDRODOWSKA, Jason van EYK, Liora BELFORD, Dolores STEINMAN, Michelle LEWIS-KING, Anna NACHER, Trace REDELL, Eduardo ABRANTES, Birgit Wandahl BUNDESEN, Anita JENSEN, Jakob JAKOBSEN, Dr. Rahma KHAZAM, Carlos ROSAS, Jeppe UGGERHØJ (Artistic Director House of Music, Aalborg), Jacob KREUTZFELT (Director, Struer Sound Festival), Majken OVERGAARD (Program Chair, CATCH), Florian WEIGL (Curator, V2, Rotterdam) and more tba *** Media Art Histories Board (Steering Committee): Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana University Lüneburg, GER); Dr. Andres BURBANO (Universidad de los Andes, CO); Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Goldsmiths University of London, UK); Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver GRAU, MAE (Danube University, AT); Prof. Dr. Inge HINTERWALDNER (Humboldt University, GER); Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO (University of California Los Angeles, US); Prof. Dr. Machiko KUSAHARA (Waseda University Tokyo, JP); Prof. Dr. Katja KWASTEK (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL); Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN (Ann Arbor Art and Design,University of Michigan, US); Prof. Dr. Chris SALTER (Concordia University and Hexagram, Montreal, CA); Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS (University of New South Wales, AU) MAH Honorary Board: Linda Dalrymple HENDERSON; Douglas KAHN; Martin KEMP, Tim LENOIR; Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Rudolf ARNHEIM †, Douglas DAVIS † ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DASH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DASH&A=1