MEDIA ART HISTORY 09 Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology, Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Call For Papers - Deadline 19th December 2008
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts
(University of Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and
Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:llve in
Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions
Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for
papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and
technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially
interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability,
live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and nonorganic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery,
mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and
sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in
the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What
hopes have been realised and which dashed? What is the history of
speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course
of media art history?

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in
their abstract:
- histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular
works, careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and
regional perspective
- histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to
media arts
- histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of
sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts
- histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts
theory and practice, including network performance, multimedia performance
and the relation of media to the histories of theatre
- histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and
the arts of transmission
- histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology
collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy
- histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on
alternative futures in media arts

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these
histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from
artists, curators, arts organisers and researchers in media, art history,
performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT
Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two
anthologies from the conference.

Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper
submission system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org.
Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be
submitted in either text, RTF, PDF or Word formats

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008. Please submit
proposals at http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php

Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs.

Prof Sean Cubitt
scubittunimelb.edu.au
Director, Media and Communications Program
Faculty of Arts
Room 127 John Medley East
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia

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