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1st ADA Media Art Online Exhibition launched: CODeDOC Remediated curated by Christiane PAUL

From: Image Science <Image.Science@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 16:32:11 +0200

1st ADA Media Art Online Exhibition launched: CODeDOC Remediated
curated by Christiane PAUL 
 
www.digitalartarchive.at 
 
ADA is pleased to announce the launch of its first online exhibition,
which lets users ‘re-experience’ two exhibitions on Net Art, and
uses a diverse set of documentation media. On display are two
outstanding exhibitions from the early 2000s – CODEDOC (Whitney
Museum, 2002) and CODEDOC II (Ars Electronica, 2003), which explored the
relationship between frontend and backend in Digital Art Works.
Participating Artists are Ed BURTON, Mark NAPIER, Mary FLANAGAN,
EpidemiC, Camille UTTERBACK, Scott SNIBBE, Joan LEANDRE, Martin
WATTENBERG, Alexander R. GALLOWAY, Maciej WISNIEWSKI, Bradford PALEY,
Golan LEVIN, et. al.
 
In the curatorial process, we were faced with two challenges: 
1. How to document and disseminate the variable and differing
interfaces and stages of the art work?
2. How to deal with technical obsolescence?
 
Since most digital artworks cannot be viewed by every user due to
outdated software or browser settings, the aim was to document artworks
in all of their complexity - allowing every user a comprehensive insight
into them. We developed a 'Grid of Analysis', in which several
documentation media –from keywords, technology, texts to videos- can
be viewed simultaneously. This not only ensures documentation as
encompassing as possible, but is meant to display the most important
aesthetics and subjects of Digital Art such as interactivity,
sequentiality and narration. Links to the original art works can be
accessed, while media such as our video narratives document and showcase
the artworks.
You can enter the exhibition at the bottom of ADA’s front page. In
the introduction slide, you will find a text collection available for
download and information on technical requirements. Then you can browse
through the art works slide by slide, search through the documentation
and try out the links to the original art works from CODeDOC and CODeDOC
II – remediated for your re-experience! 
 
SEND US YOUR CONCEPTS
ADA is a Web 2.0 based online database for Media Art, which actively
includes its community of hundreds of scholars and artists. We hope the
online exhibition has sparked your interest and imagination – feel
free to send us your own exhibition concepts and participate in the
documentation of Digital Art!
 
Sincerely
 
The ADA Team (digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at)
 
ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to become members of the online
community and set up their ADA profile! 
To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or
exhibitions are required to become members of the ADA community. Apply
for an account here:
www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html 
 
SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY 
Community members can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming
events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other
relevant news. 
 
ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology.  ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are
invited to join the community and set up their own archive pages. 
 
EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the
ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes
account of the specific conditions of digital art. 
ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER,
Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO,
Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG,
Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken
RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN,
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY,
Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER &
MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL,
et al.
Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, Jorge La FERLA et. al.
 
ADA TEAM:
Oliver GRAU (Head and Scientific Conception),  Janina HOTH, Wendy
COONES, Ann-Christin RENN, Viola RÜHSE, Devon SCHILLER, Florian WIENCEK
(Editorial Team)
Call for participation - Digital Methods Winter School 2017 - Amsterdam

From: Carolin Gerlitz <carolin.gerlitz@GMAIL.COM>

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:21:07 +0200

Call for applications - Digital Methods Winter School 2017 - Amsterdam
Data infrastructures: Database stories, dumps and query driven narratives

Digital Methods Winter School 2017 
Amsterdam
9-13 January 2017

Everyday Winter School location:
Digital Methods Initiative
University of Amsterdam
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam

Digital Methods Winter School, Data Sprint and Mini-Conference 
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on Data Infrastructures. The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with hands-on work for telling stories with data, together with a programme of keynote speakers and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars and advanced graduate students present short papers on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam DMI researchers and international participants. Participants need not give a paper at the Mini-conference to attend the Winter School. For a preview of what the event is like, you can view short video clips from previous editions of the Summer School in 2015 and 2014.
The DMI Winter School is pleased to have Geoffrey Bowker (Univ California Irvine) give the opening keynote. He is author (among other works) of Memory Practices in the Sciences and (with Susan Leigh Star) Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences, both published by MIT Press.
Data infrastructures provide the conditions of possibility for social action as well as ways of seeing the world. Among them, online data infrastructures these days range widely from social media API query environments as Facebook’s and Twitter's and secrets repositories and dumps as Wikileaks to interactive databases of missing migrants, uncounted police killings as well as war deaths put together by social researchers and leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Guardian. Beneath them are data collection regimes with multifarious goals such as corporate data science, state data transparency and investigative data journalism. 
These data infrastructures have in common with ‘information infrastructures’ studied by G. Bowker and S. Leigh Star often enormous assemblages of socio-epistemological work invisible to the "the user-at-terminal”. The entire project of scanning the library books and putting into place the query infrastructure, the n-gram viewer, of Google Books (to mention another data infrastructure Bowker also pointed to) has been called ‘infrastructuring,’ which may be mapped out with considerable effort. Indeed, certain of the data collection work — whether vast and automated, laborious and manual and/or stealthy — as well as its ‘databasing’ have been visualised in a form of deconstruction that strives to demonstrate the crucial choices about what to collect and make available to the web browser user. For example, Facebook no longer makes friends data accessible, so as to enhance user privacy but it also forestalls research opportunities such as a like analysis of Donald Trump’s friends. This is one contribution digital methods may make to data infrastructure studies by providing a critical diagnostics of infrastructure by examining the data fields available and outputted by the query machine, and the limitations inhering therein. 
Researchers may reverse engineer the query design and initial outputs, as was the case with the studies of the ICWatch database (on surveillance workers) and the JD database (concerning Fukushima). In an exploration of the ICWatch database, an activist project that sourced intelligence workers' profiles from the social networking sites, LinkedIn and Indeed, researchers also provided network-analytical techniques to clean the database, making the open secrets more credible but also created a typical profile of the surveillance worker. In the Fukushima project researchers found with the use of an historical tweet collection-maker that to check and enrich the (limited) Twitter data set about the Fukushima debates would cost over $10,000. 

Apart from such critical diagnostics, or the identification of the mechanisms behind the outputs served, digital methods may also repurpose original or typical uses of the databases, and re-narrate the data space and thus the kind of stories they may tell. Stories told from Wikileaks data, for example, often concern how the release of the confidential is endangering or benefits certain states. Indeed one recent narrative (in the New York Times) has it that the leaks benefit the Russian government. Could Wikileaks be put to uses that Julian Assange once called ’scientific journalism’ or tell data stories of other kinds? In one brief study researchers found that Wikileaks data (Afghan warlogs) is rarely used by journalists and bloggers, hardly linking to the original leak as Assange once envisaged. When stories were told, they typically were scandalous, national stories (e.g., supposed military cover-ups).

The 2017 Digital Methods Winter School critiques and repurposes data infrastructures and dumps online so as to re-narrate their current dominant uses. 

References


Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School
The annual Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School, normally a one-day affair, provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar.

Applications: Key dates
The deadline for application is 17 November 2016. To apply please send along a letter of motivation, your CV (including postal address), a headshot photo, 100-word bio as well as a copy of your passport (details page only) to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net. Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 18 November. If you are participating in the mini-conference the deadline for submission of your paper is 2 December. The mini-conference takes place on Friday 13 January 2016. Please send your mini-conference paper to winterschool[at] digitalmethods.net
. To attend the Winter School, you need not participate in the mini-conference. The full program and schedule of the Winter School and Mini-conference are available on 4 January 2017.

Fees & Logistics
The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2017 is EUR 695 (both credits and non-credits options), and upon completion participants receive certificates and/or 6 ECTS. To complete the Winter School successfully all participants must co-present the final presentation and co-author the final project report, evidenced by the presentation slides as well as the final report itself. Bank transfer information is sent along with the notification on 15 November 2016. Participants must pay the fee by 22 December 2016. Students at the University of Amsterdam do not pay fees. Participants from LERU as well as U21universities receive a tuition waver of EUR 500. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful), or we have available accommodations at the Student Hotel:

The Student Hotel Amsterdam
Jan van Galenstraat 335
1061 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 760 4000
info-amsterdam [at] thestudenthotel.com
Arrival: 8 January 2017
Departure: 14 January 2017

If you would like to have accommodations at the Student Hotel, please write to the student hotel directly. To avoid disappointment, please write to them as early as possible. 

The Winter School closes on Friday with a festive event, after the final presentations. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene. For further questions, please contact the organizers, Alex Gekker, Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru at winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net.

Please bring your laptop computer, your European plug as well as the VGA adaptor for connecting to the projector.

About DMI
The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, dedicated to developing methods for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (ten to date), which are intensive and full time, 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2017 Summer School (dedicated to ‘Visual Methodologies’) will take place from 26th June to the 7th July 2017.
The Digital Methods book (MIT Press, 2015) provides an introduction to the methodological outlook that frames and informs the work of the DMI. There is also a companion volume about mapping social and political issues with digital methods: Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), which is also freely available on the web as an open access monograph. Further information and resources about digital methods can be found at digitalmethods.net - including links to example projects, publications and tools as well as an introductory "founding narrative" about the Digital Methods Initiative and details about associated researchers.
The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Dr. Sabine Niederer and Dr. Esther Weltevrede, and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Liliana Bounegru is the managing director.

Social
For those of you that use Twitter we are using the #DMI17 hashtag as the backchannel for communication. Some pictures from Winter School 2015. Here is the Facebook Group from one year. Here are pictures from a variety of DMI Summer and Winter School flickr streams.

We would very much look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam!
___________________

Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
Professor for Media Studies, Digital Media and Methods / Professur Digitale Medientechnologien

University of Siegen
Room AE-B 108
Am Eichenhang 50 
57076 Siegen
+49-(0)271-740-5194

Sekretariat: Vera Beer, AR-H 410

































Call for applications - Digital Methods Winter School 2017 - Amsterdam
Data infrastructures: Database stories, dumps and query driven narratives

Digital Methods Winter School 2017 
Amsterdam
9-13 January 2017
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2017 

Everyday Winter School location:
Digital Methods Initiative
University of Amsterdam
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam

Digital Methods Winter School, Data Sprint and Mini-Conference 
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on Data Infrastructures. The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with hands-on work for telling stories with data, together with a programme of keynote speakers and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars and advanced graduate students present short papers on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam DMI researchers and international participants. Participants need not give a paper at the Mini-conference to attend the Winter School. For a preview of what the event is like, you can view short video clips from previous editions of the Summer School in 2015  and 2014 .
The DMI Winter School is pleased to have Geoffrey Bowker (Univ California Irvine) give the opening keynote. He is author (among other works)  of Memory Practices in the Sciences and (with Susan Leigh Star) Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences, both published by MIT Press.
Data infrastructures provide the conditions of possibility for social action as well as ways of seeing the world. Among them, online data infrastructures these days range widely from social media API query environments as Facebook’s and Twitter's and secrets repositories and dumps as Wikileaks to interactive databases of missing migrants, uncounted police killings as well as war deaths put together by social researchers and leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Guardian. Beneath them are data collection regimes with multifarious goals such as corporate data science, state data transparency and investigative data journalism. 
These data infrastructures have in common with ‘information infrastructures’ studied by G. Bowker and S. Leigh Star often enormous assemblages of socio-epistemological work invisible to the "the user-at-terminal”. The entire project of scanning the library books and putting into place the query infrastructure, the n-gram viewer, of Google Books (to mention another data infrastructure Bowker also pointed to) has been called ‘infrastructuring,’ which may be mapped out with considerable effort. Indeed, certain of the data collection work — whether vast and automated, laborious and manual and/or stealthy — as well as its ‘databasing’ have been visualised in a form of deconstruction that strives to demonstrate the crucial choices about what to collect and make available to the web browser user. For example, Facebook no longer makes friends data accessible, so as to enhance user privacy but it also forestalls research opportunities such as a like analysis of Donald Trump’s friends. This is one contribution digital methods may make to data infrastructure studies by providing a critical diagnostics of infrastructure by examining the data fields available and outputted by the query machine, and the limitations inhering therein. 
Researchers may reverse engineer the query design and initial outputs, as was the case with the studies of the ICWatch database (on surveillance workers) and the JD database (concerning Fukushima). In an exploration of the ICWatch database, an activist project that sourced intelligence workers' profiles from the social networking sites, LinkedIn and Indeed, researchers also provided network-analytical techniques to clean the database, making the open secrets more credible but also created a typical profile of the surveillance worker. In the Fukushima project researchers found with the use of an historical tweet collection-maker that to check and enrich the (limited) Twitter data set about the Fukushima debates would cost over $10,000. 

Apart from such critical diagnostics, or the identification of the mechanisms behind the outputs served, digital methods may also repurpose original or typical uses of the databases, and re-narrate the data space and thus the kind of stories they may tell. Stories told from Wikileaks data, for example, often concern how the release of the confidential is endangering or benefits certain states. Indeed one recent narrative (in the New York Times) has it that the leaks benefit the Russian government. Could Wikileaks be put to uses that Julian Assange once called ’scientific journalism’ or tell data stories of other kinds? In one brief study researchers found that Wikileaks data (Afghan warlogs) is rarely used by journalists and bloggers, hardly linking to the original leak as Assange once envisaged. When stories were told, they typically were scandalous, national stories (e.g., supposed military cover-ups).

The 2017 Digital Methods Winter School critiques and repurposes data infrastructures and dumps online so as to re-narrate their current dominant uses. 

References

Infrastructuring, “the user-at-terminal” and Bowker’s remarks on Google Books, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61986 
Facebook Algorithmic Factory by Share Lab, https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-immaterial-labour-and-data-harvesting/ 
Exploration of the ICWatch database, Digital Methods project, https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2016CareersInTheSurveillanceIndustry 
Exploration of the JD Archive (Fukushima), Digital Methods project, https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummer2014MappingTheJDArchive 
Faces of the dead, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/faces-of-the-dead.html?_r=0 
The Counted, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database 
Migrant Files, http://www.themigrantsfiles.com 
Wikileaks and data-driven user-generated journalism, Digital Methods project, https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DataDrivenUserJournalism 

Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School
The annual Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School, normally a one-day affair, provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar.

Applications: Key dates
The deadline for application is 17 November 2016. To apply please send along a letter of motivation, your CV (including postal address), a headshot photo, 100-word bio as well as a copy of your passport (details page only) to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net . Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 18 November. If you are participating in the mini-conference the deadline for submission of your paper is 2 December. The mini-conference takes place on Friday 13 January 2016. Please send your mini-conference paper to winterschool[at] digitalmethods.net 
. To attend the Winter School, you need not participate in the mini-conference. The full program and schedule of the Winter School and Mini-conference are available on 4 January 2017.

Fees & Logistics
The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2017 is EUR 695 (both credits and non-credits options), and upon completion participants receive certificates and/or 6 ECTS. To complete the Winter School successfully all participants must co-present the final presentation and co-author the final project report, evidenced by the presentation slides as well as the final report itself. Bank transfer information is sent along with the notification on 15 November 2016. Participants must pay the fee by 22 December 2016. Students at the University of Amsterdam do not pay fees. Participants from LERU  as well as U21 universities receive a tuition waver of EUR 500 . The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful), or we have available accommodations at the Student Hotel:

The Student Hotel Amsterdam
Jan van Galenstraat 335
1061 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 760 4000
info-amsterdam [at] thestudenthotel.com 
Arrival: 8 January 2017
Departure: 14 January 2017
The Student Hotel Amsterdam West website 

If you would like to have accommodations at the Student Hotel, please write to the student hotel directly. To avoid disappointment, please write to them as early as possible. 

The Winter School closes on Friday with a festive event, after the final presentations. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene . For further questions, please contact the organizers, Alex Gekker, Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru at winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net .

Please bring your laptop computer, your European plug as well as the VGA adaptor for connecting to the projector.

About DMI
The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, dedicated to developing methods for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools  (ten to date), which are intensive and full time, 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2017 Summer School (dedicated to ‘Visual Methodologies’) will take place from 26th June to the 7th July 2017.
The Digital Methods  book (MIT Press, 2015) provides an introduction to the methodological outlook that frames and informs the work of the DMI. There is also a companion volume about mapping social and political issues with digital methods: Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe  (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), which is also freely available on the web  as an open access monograph. Further information and resources about digital methods can be found at digitalmethods.net  - including links to example projects , publications  and tools  as well as an introductory "founding narrative " about the Digital Methods Initiative and details about associated researchers .
The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Dr. Sabine Niederer and Dr. Esther Weltevrede, and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Liliana Bounegru is the managing director.

Social
For those of you that use Twitter we are using the #DMI17 hashtag  as the backchannel for communication. Some pictures from Winter School 2015 . Here is the Facebook Group  from one year. Here are pictures from a variety of DMI Summer and Winter School  flickr streams.

We would very much look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam!
___________________

Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
Professor for Media Studies, Digital Media and Methods / Professur Digitale Medientechnologien

University of Siegen
Room AE-B 108
Am Eichenhang 50 
57076 Siegen
+49-(0)271-740-5194
carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de

Sekretariat: Vera Beer, AR-H 410
+49-(0)271-740-4692
sekretariat-ii@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de
New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

From: Image Science <Image.Science@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:17:50 +0200

New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

 

The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall),

Ra’anana, Israel, November 23, 2016

 

New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights

Symposium

 

Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus

of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its

appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a

growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition

of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and

software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote

from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and

scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face

losing an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial

digital culture".

 

Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of

notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA

https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html), initiated by Prof.

Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art

Histories.

 

The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel.

Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing

various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts.

The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality

("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality

Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live

performance by Shaul Tzemach.

 

Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature,

Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel,

havaal@openu.ac.il

    

    

PROGRAM

 

9:30-10:00 Gathering

 

10:00-10:30        

Greetings and Welcome Address

Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel

Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language

and the Arts, The Open University of Israel

    

       

10:30-11:30        

Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department of Sociology, Political Science

and Communication, The Open University of Israel

 

Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer

School of Communication, IDC Herzliya

Time Body Study / Performative Experiment

 

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

    

        

11:45-13:00

Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Political

Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel

 

Keynote Address

Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University,

Austria

Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image

Science

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

   

      

14:00-15:00        

Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet

Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reaching Out and Being Moved: Embodied Aesthetics, Moral Affordances,

and the Graphical User Interface

 

Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon

Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of

Engineering, Design and Art

Sensoring Art: The Art Object in the IoT (Internet of Things) Era

 

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

 

15:15-16:15

Chair: Prof. Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language and the

Arts, The Open University of Israel

 

Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office,

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Performing the Digital Museum

 

Dr. Yael Eylat Van Essen, Faculty of Design, Holon Institute of

Technology; Tel Aviv University

Between the Real and the Virtual: Rethinking the Museum

 

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

    

        

16:30-17:30

Chair: Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1

Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar

College of Engineering Design and Art

 

Ronen Leibman, Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and

Design, Jerusalem

From Video Art to Video Games and Back

 

Dr. Avi Rozen, New Media Artist and Independent Scholar

Cyberspace: Toward a Minor Art

 

Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The

Open University of Israel

Concluding Remarks

   

     

17:30-18:00 | Live Performance

Shaul Tzemach, Interdisciplinary Artist

Light Sense vE

    

    

Full program at: http://www.publicators.com/app/dms.asp?ms_id=17018 

New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)
 
The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall), 
Ra’anana, Israel, November 23, 2016
 
New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights
Symposium
 
Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus

of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its 
appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a 
growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition

of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and

software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote

from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and

scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face 
losing an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial 
digital culture".
 
Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of

notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html), initiated by Prof. 
Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art 
Histories.
 
The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel.

Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing 
various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts.

The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality 
("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality

Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live 
performance by Shaul Tzemach.
 
Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, 
Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel, 
havaal@openu.ac.il 
     
     
PROGRAM
 
9:30-10:00 Gathering
 
10:00-10:30         
Greetings and Welcome Address
Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel
Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language
and the Arts, The Open University of Israel
     
        
10:30-11:30         
Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department of Sociology, Political Science 
and Communication, The Open University of Israel
 
Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer

School of Communication, IDC Herzliya
Time Body Study / Performative Experiment
 
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
     
         
11:45-13:00 
Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Political 
Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel
 
Keynote Address
Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University, 
Austria
Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image

Science
 
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
    
       
14:00-15:00         
Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet 
Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
 
Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reaching Out and Being Moved: Embodied Aesthetics, Moral Affordances, 
and the Graphical User Interface
 
Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon

Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of 
Engineering, Design and Art
Sensoring Art: The Art Object in the IoT (Internet of Things) Era
 
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
 
15:15-16:15 
Chair: Prof. Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language and the 
Arts, The Open University of Israel
 
Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office,

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Performing the Digital Museum
 
Dr. Yael Eylat Van Essen, Faculty of Design, Holon Institute of 
Technology; Tel Aviv University
Between the Real and the Virtual: Rethinking the Museum
 
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
     
         
16:30-17:30 
Chair: Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 
Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar 
College of Engineering Design and Art
 
Ronen Leibman, Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and

Design, Jerusalem
From Video Art to Video Games and Back
 
Dr. Avi Rozen, New Media Artist and Independent Scholar
Cyberspace: Toward a Minor Art
 
Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The

Open University of Israel
Concluding Remarks
    
      
17:30-18:00 | Live Performance
Shaul Tzemach, Interdisciplinary Artist
Light Sense vE
     
     
Full program at: http://www.publicators.com/app/dms.asp?ms_id=17018
Post-grad - MediaArtHistories 2017-2019=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=Call for Applications

From: Image Science <Image.Science@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:33:41 +0200

=> MEDIA ART HISTORIES, MA (4/5 Semester) 

> Start: May/Sept 2017

www.mediacultures.net/mah

 

The MediaArtHistories MA at Danube University is the only international Master of Arts program focused on preparing art professionals and researchers through a deep exploration of the diverse histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. An interdisciplinary field at the intersection of digital technology and humanities disciplines, MediaArtHistories examines the knowledge frontiers of new media, digital, and electronic art. It addresses the scientific discovery and technological innovation that emerge as part of these art practices and productions, as well as the genealogies of their historical development and context. At a time when digital technologies are fundamentally revolutionizing the very ways in which we communicate, interact, and perceive images, the MediaArtHistories program trains students from diverse backgrounds to critically analyze the visual media cultures of today.

 

 

The program is a two-year low-residency, either 90 or 120 ECTS Masters degree offered in English.  In addition to individual study and project work at your home location, students gather 2-3 times a year for intense seminar modules with internationally renowned media artists and scholars.  These enriching sessions take place at Danube University or another European location relevant to the community of media art, such as Linz, Austria as well as Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany.

 

 

Since its beginnings in 2006, Danube University’s prestigious MediaArtHistories MA has offered its students both a deeper critical comprehension and a practical orientation regarding the most important developments of this most contemporary art, by building on its faculty network of renowned international theorists, artists, and curators. These faculty come from across the globe to give seminars during the modules held at Danube University, and from their home universities maintain through online network and project collaboration individualized instruction with students throughout the program. www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah

 

 

==> BRAIN TRUST Faculty:

Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Roger MALINA, Andreas BROECKMANN, Jens HAUSER, Jeffrey SHAW, Jussi PARIKKA, Sean CUBITT, Paul SERMON, Oliver GRAU, Christa SOMMERER, Edward SHANKEN, Frieder NAKE, Ana PERAICA, Nat MULLER, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Monika FLEISCHMANN, Margit ROSEN, Martina LEEKER, Christopher LINDINGER, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Wolf LIESER, UBERMORGEN, Andreas LANGE, Christopher SALTER, Darko FRITZ, Morten SONDERGAARD, Irina ARISTARKHOVA, and others.

 

==> CONTENT - Courses cover Media Art genres such as Net, Telematic and Genetic Art as well as the most recent reflections on Nano, Bio and Transgenic Art, Video Games, Computer Graphics and Animation, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Intelligent Environments, Hacktivism and Tactical Media, Performance, Glitch Art, hybrid art and Robotics. MediaArtHistories offers a basis for understanding the evolutionary history of media, from historic examples such as the Laterna Magica and Mechanical Automaton of the 17th century, to computer art at the earliest stages of the Internet in the mid-Twentieth Century and the algorithmic art of today. Explored in depth are key methods and theory from Digital Humanities, Image Science, Media Archaeology, Sound Studies, the Intellectual History of Science & Technology, and Digital Gender Theory. Excursions, and on site faculty seminars, introduce students to the main cultural heritage institutions in the field, such as Ars Electronica and ZKM, archives such as the Archive of Digital Art (ADA www.digitalartarchive.at), festivals such as Transmediale, and the Media Art market.

 

 

==> AUSTRIA -  the low-residency modules allow working professionals to maintain their usual employment, and students entering directly after a Bachelors degree will have opportunity to gain valuable career experience while they study.  Students are eligible for student visas for year-round residency, enabling parallel pursuit of a research project with the Archive of Digital Art or digitized Graphic Art Collection of nearby Göttweig Abbey, both developed by Danube University, or other opportunities for internships within the MediaArtHistories network. Portions of the Modules take place at the Center for Image Science housed at the Göttweig Abbey. The Danube University is located in the UNESCO World Cultural Hertiage “WACHAU” and offers a spectacular backdrop for learning and living.

 

==> STUDENTS - International students to our program have come from locations including Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and USA. Alumni of the program are employed not only as freelance curators, creative designers or working artists, but also at renowned cultural sector institutions like: Austrian National Library, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Chicago Art Institute, Deutsche Kinemathek, ETH Zürich, Ars Electronica, ITAU Cultural, Nicolaus Copernicus Universtiy, Pinchuk Art Centre, Hive Advertising, imai, Polytechnic Museum – Moscow, and more.  

 

www.donau-uni.ac.at/mahstudents

 

MODULES: May 1-5, 2017 / Sept 15-25, 2017/ Dec 1-10, 2017 / May 1-5, 2018 / October 1-10, 2018
INTERNSHIP: (MAH-Advanced only) between May -Dec 2018
MASTER THESIS: Nov 2018 – April 2019

 

==> APPLICATION (digital) and FUNDING POSSIBILITIES - Acceptance into the program requires either a Bachelors degree (or higher), or equivalent relevant work experience. Requirements: application form, letter of motivation, copies of previous degree(s) or employment validation, copy of passport and Europass CV. An application interview is required, which may be conducted in person or through internet videoconferencing. Resources for funding possibilities and estimated costs:

www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah

www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah/funding

 

www.mediacultures.net/mah

MediaArtHistories on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/groups/377264145713664/

 

*******************************************************

Department for Image Science

Danube-University Krems

Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30

3500 Krems

AUSTRIA

www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis



=> MEDIA ART HISTORIES, MA (4/5 Semester)  
> Start: May/Sept 2017
www.mediacultures.net/mah
 
The MediaArtHistories MA at Danube University is the only international
Master of Arts program focused on preparing art professionals and
researchers through a deep exploration of the diverse histories of Media
Art, Science and Technology. An interdisciplinary field at the
intersection of digital technology and humanities disciplines,
MediaArtHistories examines the knowledge frontiers of new media,
digital, and electronic art. It addresses the scientific discovery and
technological innovation that emerge as part of these art practices and
productions, as well as the genealogies of their historical development
and context. At a time when digital technologies are fundamentally
revolutionizing the very ways in which we communicate, interact, and
perceive images, the MediaArtHistories program trains students from
diverse backgrounds to critically analyze the visual media cultures of
today.
 
 
The program is a two-year low-residency, either 90 or 120 ECTS Masters
degree offered in English.  In addition to individual study and project
work at your home location, students gather 2-3 times a year for intense
seminar modules with internationally renowned media artists and
scholars.  These enriching sessions take place at Danube University or
another European location relevant to the community of media art, such
as Linz, Austria as well as Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany.
 
 
Since its beginnings in 2006, Danube University’s prestigious
MediaArtHistories MA has offered its students both a deeper critical
comprehension and a practical orientation regarding the most important
developments of this most contemporary art, by building on its faculty
network of renowned international theorists, artists, and curators.
These faculty come from across the globe to give seminars during the
modules held at Danube University, and from their home universities
maintain through online network and project collaboration individualized
instruction with students throughout the program.
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 
 
 
==> BRAIN TRUST Faculty:
Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Roger MALINA, Andreas BROECKMANN, Jens
HAUSER, Jeffrey SHAW, Jussi PARIKKA, Sean CUBITT, Paul SERMON, Oliver
GRAU, Christa SOMMERER, Edward SHANKEN, Frieder NAKE, Ana PERAICA, Nat
MULLER, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Monika FLEISCHMANN, Margit ROSEN, Martina
LEEKER, Christopher LINDINGER, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH,
Wolf LIESER, UBERMORGEN, Andreas LANGE, Christopher SALTER, Darko FRITZ,
Morten SONDERGAARD, Irina ARISTARKHOVA, and others. 
 
==> CONTENT - Courses cover Media Art genres such as Net, Telematic and
Genetic Art as well as the most recent reflections on Nano, Bio and
Transgenic Art, Video Games, Computer Graphics and Animation, Virtual
Reality, Augmented Reality, and Intelligent Environments, Hacktivism and
Tactical Media, Performance, Glitch Art, hybrid art and Robotics.
MediaArtHistories offers a basis for understanding the evolutionary
history of media, from historic examples such as the Laterna Magica and
Mechanical Automaton of the 17th century, to computer art at the
earliest stages of the Internet in the mid-Twentieth Century and the
algorithmic art of today. Explored in depth are key methods and theory
from Digital Humanities, Image Science, Media Archaeology, Sound
Studies, the Intellectual History of Science & Technology, and Digital
Gender Theory. Excursions, and on site faculty seminars, introduce
students to the main cultural heritage institutions in the field, such
as Ars Electronica and ZKM, archives such as the Archive of Digital Art
(ADA www.digitalartarchive.at), festivals such as Transmediale, and the
Media Art market. 
 
 
==> AUSTRIA -  the low-residency modules allow working professionals to
maintain their usual employment, and students entering directly after a
Bachelors degree will have opportunity to gain valuable career
experience while they study.  Students are eligible for student visas
for year-round residency, enabling parallel pursuit of a research
project with the Archive of Digital Art or digitized Graphic Art
Collection of nearby Göttweig Abbey, both developed by Danube
University, or other opportunities for internships within the
MediaArtHistories network. Portions of the Modules take place at the
Center for Image Science housed at the Göttweig Abbey. The Danube
University is located in the UNESCO World Cultural Hertiage “WACHAU” and
offers a spectacular backdrop for learning and living. 
 
==> STUDENTS - International students to our program have come from
locations including Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany,
Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and USA. Alumni
of the program are employed not only as freelance curators, creative
designers or working artists, but also at renowned cultural sector
institutions like: Austrian National Library, Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Chicago Art Institute, Deutsche Kinemathek, ETH Zürich, Ars Electronica,
ITAU Cultural, Nicolaus Copernicus Universtiy, Pinchuk Art Centre, Hive
Advertising, imai, Polytechnic Museum – Moscow, and more.  
 
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mahstudents
 
MODULES: May 1-5, 2017 / Sept 15-25, 2017/ Dec 1-10, 2017 / May 1-5,
2018 / October 1-10, 2018
INTERNSHIP: (MAH-Advanced only) between May -Dec 2018 
MASTER THESIS: Nov 2018 – April 2019
 
==> APPLICATION (digital) and FUNDING POSSIBILITIES - Acceptance into
the program requires either a Bachelors degree (or higher), or
equivalent relevant work experience. Requirements: application form,
letter of motivation, copies of previous degree(s) or employment
validation, copy of passport and Europass CV. An application interview
is required, which may be conducted in person or through internet
videoconferencing. Resources for funding possibilities and estimated
costs:
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah/funding
 
www.mediacultures.net/mah
MediaArtHistories on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/377264145713664/
 
*******************************************************
Department for Image Science
Danube-University Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30
3500 Krems
AUSTRIA
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis