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The Twentieth Annual CHArt Conference: FUTURES PAST: TWENTY YEARS OF
ARTS COMPUTING will be held at Birkbeck College, London on 11 12
November 2004.
Details of the programme are given below.
The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
CHArt Twentieth Annual Conference
FUTURES PAST: TWENTY YEARS OF ARTS COMPUTING Thursday 11 Friday 12
November 2004
Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, 25 27
Torrington Square, WC1E 7HX.
Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has closely followed the
extraordinary developments in arts computing that have taken place
over nearly two decades. This year, for the twentieth CHArt
conference we will look back at the history of the application of
digital technology to art history, visual culture, the museum and
gallery, and art practice. Papers will reflect upon successes,
failures, and futures past.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Futures Past and Present William Vaughan, Chair
of CHArt 1985 2002
THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER
SESSION 1 EXPERIMENTAL INTEGRATION Sandra Kaji O'Grady, Faculty of
Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne,
Australia. Listing: Conceptual Art, Computers and Architecture in the
1970s.
Catherine Mason, CACHe Project, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. A
Computer in the Art Room.
SESSION 2 TRANSITIONS Andrew Hershberger, Bowling Green State
University, Ohio, USA. The Medium Was the Method: Photography and
Iconography at the Index of Christian Art.
Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, New
Jersey, USA. Facing the Future through the Past at the Index of
Christian Art.
SESSION 3 PAINTING BY PIXEL James Faure Walker, London, UK.
Painting Digital, and Letting Go.
Ann Sophie Lehmann, Institute for Media and Re/presentation, Utrecht
University, Utrecht, Netherlands. 1300 brushes The History of the
Computer as Painting Machine.
SESSION 4 METHODS AND PRACTICE Pierre R. Auboiron,
Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Indexed Lights.
Matthias Weiss, Dortmund, Germany. Microanalysis as a Means to
Mediate Digital Arts.
FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER
SESSION 5 HISTORIES, FAILURES AND RESURGENCE Nick Lambert, CACHe,
Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Recursive History: Assembling a
Digital Archive of Computer Art's Early Years.
Jennifer Gabrys, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Machines Fall Apart: Failure and Collapse in Art and Technology.
Wayne Clements, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Computer Poetry's Neglected Debut.
SESSION 6 VIRTUAL DEPARTURES Mike Pringle, AHDS Visual Arts, Surrey
Institute of Art and Design, UK. A Virtual Disaster: the Rise and
Fall of
Virtual Reality.
Kirk Martinez, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK. Title to be confirmed.
SESSION 7 PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES Christine L. Sundt, Visual
Resources Collection, Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University
of
Oregon, USA. Digital Projects Past and Present: Survivors or Fossils?
Sian Everitt, Keeper of Archives and Collections BIAD, University of
Central England, Birmingham, UK. The Good, the Bad and the
Accessible: 30
Years of Using New Technologies in BIAD Archives.
SESSION 8 COLLECTIONS AND DISSEMINATION Vickie O'Riordan,
University of California, San Diego, USA. This is the Modern World:
Collaborating with ARTstor.
Melanie Rowntree, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. Successes
and Failures of Content Creation in Web Beginnings at the Victoria
and Albert Museum.
DEMONSTRATIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED
BOOKING The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.
Bookings made before 15 October 2004 will be entitled to a discount.
Conference Fees (pounds sterling) include coffee/tea breaks and
lunch.
CHArt Member:
TWO DAYS £90 (£70 before 15 Oct 2004)
ONE DAY £50 (£40 before 15 Oct 2004)
Non member:
TWO DAYS £120 (£100 before 15 Oct 2004)
ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 15 Oct 2004)
CHArt Student Member:
TWO DAYS £60 (£40 before 15 Oct 2004)
ONE DAY £30 (£20 before 15 Oct 2004)
Student Non member: TWO DAYS £70 (£50 before 15 Oct 2004)
ONE DAY £35 (£25 before 15 Oct 2004)
Send bookings to: CHArt, School of History of Art, Film and Visual
Media, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H
0PD. [email protected], Fax +44 0207 631 6107.
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