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

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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 transdisciplinarity, 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
Prof. Ryszard KLUSCZYNSKI (University of Lodz, PL)
Prof. Wendy Hui CHUN (Brown University, US)
Prof. Em. Martin KEMP (Oxford University, UK)
Prof. Morten SØNDERGAARD (Aalborg University, DK)
Prof. Sarah KENDERDINE (Lausanne, CH)

SESSIONS
– Politics I: Cybernetics, computing and the question of representation
– 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 a.o.
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)


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