THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Description:

The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Renew, will be hosted by RIXC and held in Riga, Latvia, October 8 – 11, 2013, coinciding with the international festival for new media culture Art+Communication. It will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on the histories of networked digital, electronic and technological media arts.

Proposed topics:

   - Histories of networked art and media technologies
   - Archiving, preserving and representing new media art
   - Media archaeology
   - Paradigm shift – from new media to post-media conditions in art
   - Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the Baltics
   - Revising the geospatial aspects – for writing comparative media art histories
   - Resilient networks and emerging ‘techno-ecological’ art practices
   - Multifarious potential of expression in media art – ‘new imagery’
     of our times

Deadline for abstract proposals: January 25, 2013.

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