call for projects:: re:place 2007 Berlin/November
re:place 2007: The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology :: Berlin, 15 – 18 November 2007.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
re:place 2007 welcomes contributions from established as well as from emerging researchers in diverse fields. The conference will be of interest to those working in, but not limited to, the following areas: art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, philosophy, history, gender studies, human-computer interaction, contemporary art, musicology, sound studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, science, technology and society studies, history of science, and history of technology.
We are especially keen on empirical, conceptual, and historical contributions that exemplify and expand the diverse methodological and thematic concerns of this extended interdisciplinary area. These might include contributions to:
- institutional histories of centers, sites, or events that have helped to concretize and engender the intersections between media, art, science and technology. Some broad areas could be: experimental arts spaces, collaborative research labs, significant exhibitions, etc.
- ‘place studies’ that highlight significant locations or situations where such interdisciplinary intersections or significant historical episodes have occurred. A few examples might be: ‘Tesla in Budapest’, ‘Flusser in Brazil’, USSR in the 1920s, ‘Japan between 1950s-1970s,’ etc.
- historiographical issues, methods, and debates that pose critical questions in the formulation of the histories of the ‘media arts’. These might include: archaeology, genealogy or variantology as methodological tools, bridging the divide between art and media history, sociologies of interactivity, etc.
- theoretical frameworks from various philosophical and disciplinary positions. Topics might include the exemplary role of film studies or musicology for the study of media arts, or the significance of cultural specificities and location in media and technologies, etc.
- the migration of knowledges and practices from different contexts, whether disciplinary, institutional, geographical or cultural. Topics might include: the role of migrant artists in the development of new discourses and practices; the movement and adoption of disciplinary ideas from science into art contexts or vice versa, etc.
(Via networked_performance.)
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