[ecrea] CFP: Media Art Histories 2015: Re-Create (Deadline Jan 12, 2015)

RE-CREATE 2015
The 10th anniversary and sixth international conference on the histories 
of Media, Art Science and Technology

Reminder DEADLINE extended January 12, 2015

Hexagram, Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal in 
collaboration with Media@McGill and CIRMMT- McGill Montréal, Canada.
5-8 November 2015
Re-Create CFP Submission:
http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/recreate/openconf.php

Re-Create 2015, the sixth international Conference on the Histories of 
Media Art, Science and Technology will mark the 10th Anniversary of the 
Re conference series. Re-Create 2015 is devoted to exploring what 
theories, methodologies and techniques can be used to understand past, 
present and indeed, future paradigms of creative material practice 
involving technologies within research contexts from a historical and 
critical point of view.

The title Re-Create is an abbreviation for the term “research-creation”, 
part of a growing international movement which goes by many names: 
“practice-led research,” “research-led practice,” and 
“artistic-research,” among others.

While the link between research and practice seems to be a new horizon, 
the media-based arts have long been at the intersection of the 
humanities, sciences, and engineering and present a critical site in 
which to take up the changing relationships between knowledge, power, 
and economy.

Research normally signifies modes of acquiring new knowledge that 
coherently and systematically advance a field and is grounded and 
validated by both social frameworks (peers) and existing bodies of 
knowledge. Similarly, research in conjunction with material practice 
demands that making be historically, theoretically and methodologically 
framed and valorized.

Re-Create 2015 seeks to interrogate the historical entanglement of  
research and making within a wide and diverse set of international 
sites, disciplines and contexts: from non-institutional creative 
research initiatives driven by artists and designers in the streets, to 
the labyrinths of industry funded research labs and universities. From 
unknown or ignored histories of research-based practices in Latin 
America, Asia and Indigenous communities to government funded 
initiatives, the conference will thus critically explore the ongoing and 
productive tensions between theory, method and making in the histories 
of media art, science and technology.

Potential contributors to the conference should focus thematic panel 
sessions or individual papers on one of the following areas of 
concentration:
:: LAB STUDIES: Studies on how artists and designers have historically 
worked in industry, universities and collective, grass roots-based 
research environments
:: CURATORIAL ACTIONS AND PRACTICES: How have research paradigms 
historically entered into curatorial practices and how have they been 
framed, exhibited and articulated?
:: ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH: Historical profiles of 
non-institutionally based research-driven explorations.
:: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS: How have theoretical paradigms in media, art, 
science and technology historically evolved structuralism in the 1960s 
or media studies to current work in affect theory, media archaeology, 
critical post-humanist approaches derived from STS, appropriation and 
remix aesthetics, feminist new materialism, queer and postcolonial 
studies, enactive and distributed cognition?
:: METHODOLOGIES: What can methodological tools emerging from the human 
and social sciences like ethnography, historiography, archaeology, 
genealogy and other qualitative techniques provide to the historical and 
critical positioning of practice?
:: INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERSECTIONS AND IMPACTS: Exploration of the 
formation and rise of interdisciplinary research fields (image science, 
sound studies, science studies, sensory studies, environmental studies) 
and their impact on the construction of media art histories.
:: DIGITAL HUMANITIES: What is the historical relationship between the 
digital humanities and the histories of media art, science and technology?
:: SITES: How historically have sites of research and practice in media 
art, science and technology evolved outside of the predominant spheres 
of Europe and North America and what forms have they taken?

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include competitively selected peer-reviewed 
individual papers, panel presentations and poster sessions as well as a 
number of keynotes and invited speakers and a parallel satellite program 
of events with Hexagram partners including core cultural institutions in 
Montreal. In the interest of maintaining a concentrated conference 
program, there will be a series of plenary sessions as well as 
accompanying poster sessions. Each of the plenaries as well as the 
poster sessions will mix together scholars and practitioners 
representing different cultural perspectives. The conference will be 
held in English and French, with live translation.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Re-Create 2015 welcomes contributions from researchers, artists, 
designers, scholars and technologists working across diverse 
disciplines, sites and practices. We particularly encourage scholars and 
creators from international contexts outside of Europe and North America.

ABOUT THE CONTEXT AND THE HOST
The conference will take place in Montreal hosted by Hexagram, the 
international network for media, art, design and digital culture 
(http://hexagram.ca). It is the largest network of its kind in Canada 
and one of the largest internationally dedicated to research-led 
creative practices. Ten years after the inaugural Re-Fresh conference at 
the Banff New Media Institute in 2005, the return of the conference to 
Canada and specifically to Quebec, offers a pertinent context to address 
the evolution of research in the histories of media, art, science and 
technology (http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series). The 
conference will be held across the two core Hexagram sites at Concordia 
University and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The venues 
are within walking distance from each other, centrally located in 
vibrant, downtown Montreal – the digital arts and culture capital of 
North America.

SUBMISSIONS
250 word abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should 
be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats. Texts can be 
submitted in French and in English. The DEADLINE for submissions is 
January 12, 2015. INFORMATION about the submission process and general 
information can be found at: Re-Create Submission Site: 
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015/re-create-cfp

Conference partners include Media@McGill, CIRMMT-McGill, Cinémathèque 
québécoise, DHC-Art, Elektra/ACREQ, Goethe-Institut Montreal, Department 
fpr Image Science Danube University and others to be announced.

Conference chairs and Hexagram Co-Directors: Chris Salter, artist, 
Concordia University Research Chair and Associate Professor, Design and 
Computation Arts, Concordia University (QC/CA/US/DE) and Gisèle Trudel 
(QC/CA), artist and professor, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, 
Université du Québec à Montréal.

Re-Create Local Organizing Committee: Thierry BARDINI, Barbara CLAUSEN, 
Ricardo DAL FARRA, Jean DUBOIS, Jean GAGNON, Alice JIM, Jason LEWIS, 
Jonathan LESSARD, Louise POISSANT, Chris SALTER, Cheryl SIM, Jonathan 
STERNE, Alain THIBAULT, Gisele TRUDEL, Marcelo WANDERLEY

Re-Create 2015 International Advisory Board: Marie-Luise ANGERER, Monika 
BAKKE, Samuel BIANCHINI, Georgina BORN, Andreas BROECKMANN, Annick 
BUREAUD, Michael CENTURY, Joel CHADABE, Dooeun CHOI, Ian CLOTHIER, Sarah 
COOK, Nina CZEGLEDY, Sara DIAMOND, Diane DOMINGUES, Jean Paul 
FOURMENTRAUX, Zhang GA, Sébastien GENVO, Orit HALPERN, Jens HAUSER, 
Denisa KERA, Felipe César LONDONO, Natalie LOVELESS, Glenn LOWRY, Rafael 
LOZANO-HEMMER, Roger MALINA, Sally Jane NORMAN, Nicolas NOVA, Jussi 
PARIKKA, Christiane PAUL, Simon PENNY, Andrew PICKERING, Sundar 
SARRUKAI, Yukiko SHIKATA, Michel VAN DARTEL, Ionat ZURR

MAH Honorary Board: Douglas DAVIS, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter 
WEIBEL

MAH Conference Series Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda HENDERSON, 
Erkki HUHTAMO, Douglas KAHN, Martin KEMP, Machiko KUSAHARA, Tim LENOIR, 
Gunalan NADARAJAN, Paul THOMAS


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