DAY 1 - THURSDAY September 29
PANEL 1 - WELCOME ADDRESS
Susan Kennard, Oliver Grau, Sara Diamond
Roger Malina
PANEL 2 - OPENING KEY NOTE
Moderator: Ryszard Kluszczynski
Edmond Couchot
Towards the Autonomous Image
PANEL 3 - MEDIA HISTORIES: TIMES & LANDSCAPES I
Oliver Grau
Chair: Gunalan Nadarajan
Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of
Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
Oliver Grau
Remember the Phantasmagoria! Virtual Art of 19th Century and its Future
Mario Carpo
The Demise of the Identicals Architectural Standardization in
the Age of Digital Reproducibility
Q&A – Various
PANEL 4 – METHODOLOGIES
Chairs: Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo
Mark Hansen
Between Media and Art, or Media Art with and Against Art History
Erkki Huhtamo
Media Arts and Media Archaeology - Collision or Convergence
Andreas Broeckmann
Image, Process, Performance, Machine. Paradigms of Media Art Theory
Q&A – Various
PANEL 5 - IMAGE SCIENCES AND “REPRESENTATIONS”
Chair: Barbara Stafford
Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation
Kristin Veel
Once Upon a Time There Was a Database…Database and Narrative from a Cognitive
(...)
Christine Ross
Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts
Philip Thurtle, Claudia X. Valdes
Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice
Christopher Salter
The Performative Turn in New Media - A Critical History
Tim Clark
Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical Examination of the "The
Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" and the Incorporation of "The
Argument from Human Creativity"
Q&A – Various
PANEL 6 - ART AS RESEARCH / ARTISTS AS INVENTORS
Chair: Dieter Daniels
Chris Meigh-Andrews
Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development of the EMS Spectron and the
Videokalos Image Processor
Fred Turner
Where Cybernetics Met the Counterculture: The Us Company
Simon Penny
Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the
Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork
Cornelius Borck
Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception
Q&A – Various
PANEL 7 - TIMES AND LANDSCAPES II
Chair: Edward Shanken
Chair: Charlie Gere
Early British Computer Art: the Findings of the CACHe Project
Chair: Edward Shanken
Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art
Grant Taylor
How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art
Darko Fritz, Margit Rosen
Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late
1960s
Q&A – Various
Sylvie Lacerte
Experiments in Art and Technology: a Gap to Fill in Art History's Recent
Chronicles
Anne Collins Goodyear
Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology'
in the United States, 1965-1971
Q&A – Various
Caroline Seck Langill
Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of Early Electronic Art
María Fernández
Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath
Q&A – Various
DAY 2 - FRIDAY September 30
PANEL 1 - COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND ARCHVING THE
MEDIA ARTS
Chair: Steve Dietz
Christiane Paul
The Myth of Immateriality - Presenting & Preserving New Media
Q&A - Various
Jon Ippolito
Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?
Q&A – Various
PANEL 2 - DATABASE / NEW SCIENTIFIC TOOLS
Chairs: Andreas Broeckmann, Oliver Grau
Christian Berndt
Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation
Chair: Rudolf Frieling
'Media Art Net': Database and Context
Sandra Fauconnier, via video presentation
V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of Media Art
Alain Depocas
Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach
Richard Rinehart
Q&A – Various
PANEL 3 - POP/MASS/SOCIETY
Chair: Machiko Kusahara
Technology as Art: 'Device Art' as a New Japanese Paradigm
Chair: Andreas Lange
Archiving of Computer Games
Karen Keifer-Boyd
Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century
Tobey Crockett
An Aesthetics of Play - or, How to Appreciate Interactive Fun
Mark Tribe
Open Source Culture
Q&A - Various
PANEL 4 - POSTER SESSION (Not recorded)
Kirsty Robertson -
Webs of Resistance: Knitting, the Body, and the Net
Charlotte Frost -
Better Serving the List Serve
Genco Gulan -
Web Biennial: International Contemporary Art Exhibition for and
on the World Wide Web
Atteqa Malik -
Media Art in Pakistan_ Not Another 'In Your Face' Advertisement
Campaign!
Michael R Salmond -
Legitimizing the Video Game
María Victoria Guglietti -
Dialogue- Assimilation- Subversion: Contemporary New Media
Native Art in Canada
Ayesha Hameed -
The Unspoken Archive: New Media Representations of the Middle
Passage
Christoph Klütsch -
Aesthetic Values
John W. Maxwell - Tracing the Dynabook: A Mythological
Archaeology of Personal Computing
Sylvia Grace Borda -
[esc]aping: Mapping Digital Diasporas in Canada
Artur Matuck - Human-Computer Creative
Interfaces and the Emergence of E-Authors
Maureen Nappi - What's In a Name? The Ontology
of Media Arts
Martin Rieser -
Interactive Art and Public Spaces: Spatial Narratives for the
21st Century
Jan Altmann - Expressive Bacteria: the Art of
Photomicroscopy
Frances Dyson -
Nine Moments: Initiations in the Discourse and Practices of Art
and Technology,
Franck Ancel -
From Scenography to Planetary Network
Caroline Bernard and Jean-Luc Marchina -
Les Formes de l'Interactivité - a Research Project
County Tam -
From Nothingness to Technology, What Do We Read Ourselves in New
Media
Mara Traumane - Interdisciplinary
Expression, Technology and Creative Environment That Were
Introduced by the Experimental Artists Practice in the 80's
Susanne Schumacher -
Digital Analysis of Structure and Form
Richard Rinehart -
A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and
Variable Media Art
PANEL 5 - SPECIAL FEATURE: RUDOLPH ARNHEIM LECTURE
Moderator: Roger Malina
Sarat Maharaj
Post-Guten(morgen)berg: Soundings for a North/South Atlas of
Art and New Media Histories
Various - Q&A
DAY 3 - SATURDAY October 1
PANEL 1 - CROSS – CULTURE GLOBAL ART
Chair: Sara Diamond
Sheila Petty
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo's
Ghosting
Mary Leigh Morbey
From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural
Identity on National Musea Websites
Thomas Riccio
World Narrative: The Creation of a New? Place?
Aparna Sharma
Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation
Laura U. Marks
Latent Rhythm: Algorithmic Performativity in Media Art and Islamic Calligraphy
Q&A – Various
PANEL 2- CROSS–DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS
Chair: Ron Burnett
Guy Sioui Durand
Indiscipline
Chair: Ron Burnett
Is New Media New?
Will Straw
Grounded Materialities: Who Isn't Interdisciplinary?
Chair: Frieder Nake
Events of Significance
Dot Tuer
Transculturation and New Media History
David Tomas
Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices
Michael Century
New Media in an Adhocracy
Q&A – Various
PANEL 3 - REJUVENATE: FILM, SOUND & MUSIC IN MEDIA ARTS HISTORY
Chair: Douglas Kahn
Music: The First Digital Art
Chair: Sean Cubitt
Projection: Vanishing and Becoming
Keith Sanborn
Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic
Q&A – Various
PANEL 4 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator: Sara Diamond
Lucia Santaella
The Semiosis of Media Art, Science and Technology
Q&A – Various
PANEL 5 - COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE/NETWORKING
Chair: Ryszard Kluszczynski
RE-writing the History of Media Art: How Hypermedia Change our Vision of the
Past (The Case of Artistic Collaboration)
Chair: Diana Domingues
Collaborative Transdisciplinary Practices for Complex Systems
in Interactive and Immersive Art
Eliseo Reategui
Collaborative Transdisciplinary Practices for Complex Systems
in Interactive and Immersive Art
Nina Czegledy
Cross Cultural Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Todd A. Davis, Jeremy Turner, and Douglas Jarvis
SAT-TEL-COMP (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional
Artist Networks through the Connectivity of (Technological) Telecommunication
Devices and Human Dialogue
Margaret Dolinsky
CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality across High Speed Networks
PANEL 6 - WHAT CAN THE HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA LEARN FROM HISTORY OF SCIENCE?
Chair: Linda Henderson
Tim Lenoir
Making Studies in New Media Critical
Linda Henderson
'The Fourth Dimension', the History of Science, and New Media
Timothy Druckrey
Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History
Simon Werrett
Logic of Innovation: Interpreting 'Invention' in Art and Science
PANEL 7 - HIGH ART/ LOW CULTURE - THE FUTURE OF MEDIA ART SCIENCES
Chair: Karin Bruns
High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?
Yara Guasque
Immersive and Participative Environments
Andy Polaine
Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art doesn't Understand
Interactivity
Claus Pias
Zombies of the Revolution
Barbara Paul
Media Art Sciences & Feminist Theories: New Alliances?
Q&A – Various
PANEL 8 - HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS
Andreas Broeckmann
Discussant
Itsuo Sakane
On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology -Toward the Cultural
Evolution of Human-being
Jasia Reichardt
The Computer in Art
Michael Naimark
Dynamics of Sustainability
Peter Richards
A History of Art in a Science Museum
Johannes Goebel
What are “Centers for Media Art” Good For If You Can Buy a
“Media System” for the Price of a Used Car? Or: ZKM and EMPAC as
Institutions with Physical Spaces for Artistic Productions with
Digital Tools
Q&A – Various
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