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MediaArtHistories International Award: Call for Nominations
 
On the occasion of its 7th Biannual Conference Re:Trace, the Media Art
Histories Conference Board is pleased to announce its call for
nominations for the Media Art Histories Award for Outstanding
Achievement! 
 
This award will be conferred upon an individual scholar working in any
language in recognition for their innovative and inspirational
contribution to the field of Media Art Histories, sustained development
of the global community and research program of Media Art, and for
scholarly excellence at the highest level. 
 
Two years ago, Dr. Barbara Maria STAFFORD, University of Chicago,
received the inaugural award for her achievements in imaging arts,
optical sciences, and performance technologies.  
 
Presentation of the 2nd Media Art Histories Award will take place at
the Re:Trace 2017 Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology, to be held in early December 2017 in Krems and Vienna,
Austria. The individual awarded will also be recognized at all future
conferences, as well as in the Media Art Histories Archive and on the
Conference Series social media forums. 
 
www.mediaarthistory.org 
 
The Media Art Histories Board asks for your nominations. Please submit
proposals of approximately 500 words describing the nominee's merit and
achievements in scholarship in the histories of the media arts, the arts
and science and/or the arts and technology, and related fields.
 
The time for nominations will close on April 10, 2017. Please submit
your proposals to coordination(at)mediaarthistory.org A committee of
board and non-board members will select the MediaArtHistories Award
winner.
 
Initiated by the Media Art Histories Board: 
Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Deputy Head of Department & PhD Tutor / Media
and Communications / Goldsmiths University of London / UK), Univ.-Prof.
Dr. habil. Dr.h.c. Oliver GRAU (Head of Dept & Chair Professor in Image
Science / Danube University / AT), Dr. Linda Dalrymple HENDERSON (David
Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History / Dept of Art + Art
History / University of Texas at Austin / US), Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN
(Leuphana Arts Program, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, GER), Prof. Dr.
Erkki HUHTAMO (Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television,
and Digital Media / University of California Los Angeles / US), Prof.
Dr. Douglas KAHN (Professor of Media and Innovation / National Institute
of Experimental Arts (NIEA) / University of New South Wales, Sydney /
AU),  Prof. Dr. Martin KEMP (Emeritus Professor of the History of Art /
Oxford University / UK), Prof. Dr. Machiko KUSAHARA (School of Letters,
Arts and Sciences / Waseda University / Tokyo, Japan), Prof. Dr. Tim
LENOIR (Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society / Duke
University / US), Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN (Dean / Stamps School of
Art & Design / University of Michigan / US), Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS
(Director / Fine Arts at College of Fine Art / University of New South
Wales /AU)
 
 
MISSION MAH Conference Series
"Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture,
this conference for the Histories of Media Art Histories discusses the
history of media art within the interdisciplinary and intercultural
contexts of the histories of art, media, science and technology." (Villa
Vigoni 2004)
 
Media Art History Conference Series and Archive  -- 
www.mediaarthistory.org 
MediaArtHistories – Advanced, MA  --  www.mediacultures.net/mah 
Archive of Digital Art  --  www.digitalartarchive.at 
 

RE:TRACE 2017: Call for Papers 
 
The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science
and Technology titled RE:TRACE focuses on an evaluation of the status of
the meta-discipline MediaArtHistories today.
 
More than a decade after the first conference founded the field now
recognized worldwide as a significant historical inquiry at the
intersection of art, science, and technology, Media Art Histories is now
firmly established as a dynamic area of study guided by changing media
and research priorities, drawing a growing community of scholars,
artists and artist-researchers. 
 
Immersed in both contemporary and historiographical aspects of the
digital world, we explore the most immediate socio-cultural questions of
our time: from body futures, information society, and media
(r)evolutions, to environmental interference, financial virtualization,
and surveillance. And we do so through a fractal lens of inter- and
trans-disciplinarity, bridging art history, media studies, neuroscience,
psychology, sociology, and beyond. MediaArtHistories is a field whose
theory, methods, and objects of study interweave with and overlay other
disciplines.
 
The organizing committee invites researchers of different areas,
disciplines and practices to submit individual papers, posters and full
panels with new and original research preferably in the following
themes:
 
•              MediaArtHistories – historiographies and futures of an
ever-emerging field
•              Institutional histories of Media Art
•              Media Art & Politics (surveillance, climate,
visualizations, etc.)
•              Collecting media art / Media Art market
•              Archiving, preserving and representing Media Art
•              Re-Use of cultural heritage data, including education,
learning and research
•              Methodologies and research tools for MediaArtHistories
with a focus on Digital Humanities
•              International and local histories and practices of media
art
•              (Post-)Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of
media art, science and technology
•              Paradigm shift – Digital vs. Post-Digital Theory
•              Alternative histories for Media Art in relation to newly
evolving or unexpected fields.
•              Models and perspectives of research fields adapted
across traditional disciplinary lines.
•              New symbolic architecture of digital super companies
(Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, FB, Google)
 
 
The conference program will include competitively selected,
peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations and posters, as
well as a small number of invited speakers. Presentations will be
delivered in a range of formats, from panel discussions to a poster
session. We particularly encourage submissions by researchers from
international contexts outside of Europe and North America.
 
Keynote lectures by internationally renowned, outstanding leaders in
the field, will deliberate on the central themes of the conference
series, its histories and futures.
 
Submission Deadline: March 26, 2017
Notification of acceptance will be announced by April 30, 2017.
 
Individual proposals for papers should consist of a max. 250-word
abstract with title.
Proposals for full panels should consist of a max. 500-word abstract
outlining the panel and individual topics of confirmed speakers.
Submission language is English. Submitters should upload a short bio
file (Word), no longer than ½ page per person. The short bios will be
used on the conference website together with your abstracts.
 
Initiated by the Media Art Histories Board (Steering Committee): 
Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Deputy Head of Department & PhD Tutor / Media
and Communications / Goldsmiths University of London / UK); Univ.-Prof.
Dr. habil. Dr.h.c. Oliver GRAU, MAE (Head of Dept & Chair Professor in
Image Science / Danube University / AT); Dr. Linda Dalrymple HENDERSON
(David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History / Dept of Art +
Art History / University of Texas at Austin / US); Dr. Andreas
BROECKMANN (Leuphana Arts Program, Leuphana University of Lüneburg,
GER); Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO (Departments of Design Media Arts, and
Film, Television, and Digital Media / University of California Los
Angeles / US); Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN (Professor of Media and Innovation
/ National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA) / University of New
South Wales, Sydney / AU); Prof. Dr. Machiko KUSAHARA (School of
Letters, Arts and Sciences / Waseda University / Tokyo, Japan); Prof.
Dr. Tim LENOIR (Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in
Society / Duke University / US); Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN (Dean /
Stamps School of Art & Design / University of Michigan / US); Prof. Dr.
Paul THOMAS (Director / Fine Arts at College of Fine Art / University of
New South Wales /AU)
 
MAH Honorary Board: Martin KEMP, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter
WEIBEL, 
Douglas DAVIS †, Rudolf ARNHEIM †
 
Conference dates: November 30 – December 02, 2017, Krems (World
Cultural Heritage) & Vienna, hosted by DANUBE UNIVERSITY

Venues: 
Danube University / Located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World
Heritage Wachau region, Danube University is the only public university
in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering
low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life-long
learners. Located at both a modern university campus and in the Göttweig
Monastery, the Dept. for Image Science is an internationally unique
institution for research and innovative teaching with an international
faculty, at this point 120 scholars from various nations and
disciplines. The innovative approach of the Department for Image Science
with the close connection to practice has developed the Archive of
Digital Art and founded in 2006 the low-residency
MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA answering the need for international,
post-graduate studies.
Vienna / The vibrant capital of the Republic of Austria in Central
Europe meeting international travel standards with safe and exciting
surroundings that embrace culture both old and new. Planning for Vienna
is being organized with partner institutions and colleagues. Fast and
frequent public transportation between Vienna and Krems allows for a
blending of two locations into one venue, distributing separate days in
each venue. 


Links:
Re:Trace call for papers – www.mediaarthistory.org/retrace 
MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA – www.mediacultures.net/mah 
Archive of Digital Art – www.digitalartarchive.at