CONF: RE-CREATE – THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICES OF RESEARCH-CREATION
IN THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Montréal, 5-8 November 2015
Université du Québec à Montréal, Agora Hydro-Québec, Coeur des
Sciences, 175, avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montréal
Exhibition openings and reception on November 5 at Concordia
University, E.V. building, 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montréal
REGISTRATION is still OPEN!
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015
Re-Create conference focuses on six core thematic questions:
1). Theoretical Currents: How do the Senses, Animals and the Apocalypse
inform research-creation practices ?
(2). Sites: How have sites of research and practice evolved in Latin
America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Sweden and Indigenous Cultures?
(3). Histories of the Studio Lab: How have Australian, British,
Canadian and American artists historically worked in academia, industry
and generative art?
(4). New Methods: What can the concept of co-production (STS),musique
concrète,intersectionality theory and critical race studies, as well as
the debates about the “practice turn” in higher education provide to
the historical and critical positioning of practice?
(5). Digital Humanities and Critical Practices: What are the challenges
and the future of transdisciplinary collaboration? What can media
archeology do for the humanities and contemporary academic culture? How
has failure impacted practice-led research?
(6). Curatorial Actions and Practices: How have philosophy, industrial
creation, feminism, sound and “imageness” historically entered into
curatorial practices?
Program Chair: Dr. Christopher Salter, Co-Director, Hexagram; Associate
Professor Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia
University
Co-Program Chair: Gisèle Trudel, Professor, School of Visual and Media
Arts, Arts Faculty, University of Québec at Montreal. Trudel is the
former Director of Hexagram-UQAM (2011-13) and Co-Director of Hexagram
(2012-15).
Emerging Researchers’ (ER) Symposium des Chercheurs Émergents
04.11.2015 ER Programme here:
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015/programme-overview-emerging-researchers-symposium
EVENT OVERVIEW
Thursday/jeudi 5.11.2015
DAY/JOUR 1 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE 2015
13h-15h30 OPENING ADDRESS/DISCOURS D’OUVERTURE
Chris SALTER, Concordia University
Oliver GRAU, Media Art Histories, Danube University
SESSION 1 – Setting the Stage : Overview and Precedents
“Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture” Revisited
Michael CENTURY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Regard transversal sur des pratiques inter- et trans-
Louise POISSANT, FRQSC
Art-Science: A lab for discerning modes and logics of
interdisciplinarity
Georgina BORN, Oxford University
Weaving Strands: Research-creation practices in universities, cultural
institutions and artist-run culture in Montreal
Gisèle TRUDEL, Université du Québec à Montréal + Cheryl SIM, DHC/ART
Foundation for Contemporary Art
17h – Concordia University, EV building
FOFA Gallery
Biomateria + Contagious Matters
Exhibition – WhiteFeather HUNTER + Tristan MATHESON, Concordia
University
Mangling Methodologies in Biological Art and Display Practices
Discussion Panel – FREE, OPEN TO PUBLIC
Jens HAUSER, University of Copenhagen, White Feather HUNTER, Concordia
University, Tristan MATHESON, Concordia University, Andrew PELLING,
University of Ottawa
FOFA Gallery – York Vitrine
Tourmente
Interactive Public Screens – Jean DUBOIS, Université du Québec à
Montréal
Hexagram BlackBox
Copacabana Machine Sex: Behind the Scene
Robotics installation in process – Bill VORN, Concordia University
KEYNOTE 1
Joan JONAS, Artist, New York
18h-23h – Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Irradiate. Drawing electromagnetic frequencies with wind. Projection
architecturale modulée par données environnementales (vent et ondes
électromagnétiques). Ælab (Gisèle Trudel) with Guillaume Arseneault,
Université du Québec à Montréal
Friday/vendredi 6.11.2015 DAY/JOUR 2 Media Art Histories Re-CREATE
2015
9h-10h30 Session 2A – Methodological Entanglements
La méthode de Pierre Scheaffer
Yan BREULEUX, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Post-digital Circulationism. On- and Offline Intermedia Discourse in
Contemporary Art and Scholarship, Katja KWASTEK, VU, University
Amsterdam
Discourse-analytical aesthetics for digital cultures
Martina LEEKER + Irina KALDRACK, Leuphana University
Practices and Languages of Art
Sally Jane NORMAN, University of Sussex
Session 2B – Practices : Histories of the StudioLab
Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement.
Patrick McCRAY, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, an Australian artist between Art,
Industry, Science and the Academy. Martyn JOLLY and Anthony OATES,
Australian National University
Multimedia artists and fieldwork (1960-80s)
Jelena MARTINOVIC, Geneva University of Art and Design
11h-12h KEYNOTE 2
Christine VAN ASSCHE, Chief Curator, C
