Rewire – day 2 – Sept 29, 2011
THURSDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2011
9.30 – 11.30: SESSION 5
Panel A: Institutions, cultural memory and canons
CHAIR: Sarah Cook
Robin Oppenheimer, 9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering: Recovering Digital Culture’s Collaborative Roots
Christophe Leclercq and Paul Girard, The Experiments in Art and Technology Digital Archive
Sara Diamond, Euphoria and Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues, 1995-2005
Ben Halsall, The digital grandmother: shifting patterns in the fomation of global and local creative communities.
Sarah Todd, Anatomy of an Artist-Run Media Arts Archive : 1969 – Present
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Panel B: History, memory, documentation
CHAIR: Mike Stubbs
Monika Górska-Olesińska, Playable texts as tools for critical analysis of experimental strategies in a field of language art
Axel Roch, Marcel Duchamp VS Claude Shannon: Chess, Cycles, and Juggling in Art and Media.
Victoria Bradbury, The Colonial Vegetables Sewn Sampler and Blue Boar: Remapping Histories through New Media
Leonie Cooper, Memories of a virtual world: Thinking through those things that remain
Gabriela Galati, Non-Linear Models: Camilo’s Theater of Memory & Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as Archive Models for Thinking and Writing on New Media Art History
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Panel C: Local histories
CHAIR: Laura Sillars
Janice Robertson, Aztec Picture-Writing Meets Hypermedia and a “New World” of Writing Opens Up
Margrét Ólafsdóttir, Media Art in Iceland : a case study
Darko Fritz, Beginning of computer-generated art in the Netherlands
David Teh, New/media/art in Thailand: expanded history for an expanded field
Jung-Yeon Ma, A Very ‘Superficial’ History of Media Art in Japan
11.30 – 11.45: Tea/coffee
11.45 – 13.10: SESSION 6
Panel A: Precursors (digital effects)
CHAIR: Steve Partridge
Maria Lakka, Synaesthesia in the American avant-garde film: two approaches
Katie Day Good, Early Convergence: Audio Slideshows and “New Media” Storytelling at American Newspapers, 1923-1931
Birk Weiberg, Classical Hollywood Cinema as an Epistemological Network
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Panel B: Art now 2
CHAIR: Sarah Cook
Tomohiro Ueshiba, Early video installations of Dumb Type
Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Dress Acts: Wearable Technology and Virtuosity
Jackie Calderwood, Navigating Metaphor: Locative media and symbolic landscape
Chris Meigh-Andrews, The Monument Project
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.40: SESSION 7
Panel A: Science and Technology studies
CHAIR: Charlie Gere
Karen Cham, The Convergence of Complex Systems Science and Art Practice in the Computational Arts
Gabriel Menotti, The interpenetrating boundaries between coding and computation during livecoding performance
Rebecca Uchill, Technologies of the Social: The Contemporary Art Exhibition in Formation of its Publics
Pau Alsina, Pau Waelder and Natalia Cantó, Towards a material-semiotic network approach in the History of Media Art: BioArt as a case study.
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Panel B: The spaces of art (internet)
CHAIR: Christiane Paul
Jeremy Pilcher, Internet Art as a Critique of the Legal Regulation of Digital Society
Meredith Godley, Performance Art and YouTube Vlogging
Camille Paloque Berges, The art of documenting online experience : Internet art and culture in relation to concepts in information sience
Jenny Steele, ‘Redirection and Network Timeout’– Occupation of internet architecture and physical architecture in Chinese municipality of Chongqing’
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Panel C: Case studies (identity and exhibition making)
CHAIR: Laura Sillars
Robin Peckham and Venus Lau, Curatorial discourse and new media in contemporary China
Alice Ming Wai Jim, How Do Non-Western Histories of Media Art and Global Art History Interact?
Dot Tuer, Divergent Circuitries: Staking a claim for Tucumán Arde in New Media History
Josei Nagayassu and Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima, The new paradigm represented by the digital sketches in architecture
14.00 – 16.30: Workshop
Media Art Histories Archive Roundtable, convened by Ross Harley and Paul Thomas
15.40 – 16.00: Tea/coffee
16.00 – 17.40: SESSION 8
Panel A: Blindspots (pioneers)
CHAIR: Paul Brown
Elaine O’Hanrahan, Desmond Paul Henry: Computer Art’s ‘missing link’
Caroline Langill, Another Dimension & Another Dimension II: A missed opportunity
Silvana Vassallo, Italian interactive installation art: an assessment of the pioneering works of Studio Azzurro, Giacomo Verde, Mario Canali e Piero Gilardi.
Annet Dekker, Enjoying the gap. Strategies for documenting net art
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Panel B: The craft of art (gaming)
CHAIR: Sara Diamond
William Lockett, Tonalities of Protention: Temporal Horizons and Game-Space
Katja Kwastek, “Myron did it first” – Does Nintendo do it better?
Felicity Colman, Notes on post-industrial gaming : the new machinic aesthetic
Jonathan Lessard, Game genres adapting to technology: understanding the success and decline of adventure games
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Panel C: The spaces of art (labs)
CHAIR: Charlie Gere / Sarah Cook
Rosana Horio Monteiro, Artists-in-labs: a Portuguese experience
Nicholas Lambert, Rebels in research labs? The role of artists in the early development of American computer graphics, 1965-1980
Peter Richardson, Herding Cats to Infinity
Charlotte Frost, Furtherfield, Seeing and Doing
18.00 – 20.00: Performance
AND Festival Opening, FACT and Black-E
20.00: Close
