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>On Apr 29, 2008, at 19:07 PM Sean Cubitt wrote:
>Apologies for cross posting
>
>(and I really hope that ada can put up a panel on aotearoa histories of
>media arst!!
>
>Sean
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>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
>scubitt at unimelb.edu.au
>Director, Media and Communications Program
>Faculty of Arts
>Room 127?John Medley East
>The University of Melbourne
>Parkville VIC 3010
>Australia
>
>Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667
>Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494
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