WEDNESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2011
9.00 – 9.20: Opening address
Mike Stubbs, Rewire chair and Director of FACT
9.30 – 11.30: SESSION 1
Panel A: Accidents, experiments and prototypes
CHAIR: Mike Stubbs
Gabriel Menotti, Gambiarra and the Prototyping Perspective
Caroline Langill, The Telidon Trials (1978-1985): Creative applications and disappointing outcomes
Valentina Montero and Christian Oyarzun, Art, Desire and Technology
Penelope Boyer, Homer’s Penelope as an Early Tale of Technology: “Hold on, just let me finish textiling ; ) ”
Markus Hafner, mitumBACK
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Panel B: Computing
CHAIR:Charlie Gere
Daniel Temkin, Esolexicons
John Tonkin, Cybernetics within us; notes towards a dysfunctional robotics
Robert Jackson, Speculative Media – The Beholding of Objects: Object Oriented Ontology, Algorithmic Artworks and the Beholding of Media.
Rebecca Rouse, Panoramic Forms: From Social Spectacle to Handheld Illusion
Vito Campanelli The Optical/Haptic Antinomy on the Web
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Panel C: The spaces of art (urban)
CHAIR: Juan Cruz
Patrick Allen, Framing Locality and Place: some creative uses of augmented public space
Karen O’Rourke, Walking the Map
Janine Marchessault and Michael Darroch, “Living Architecture” (1951-1972) as Urban Media
Kathy Cleland, The history and aesthetics of surveillance art
Eva Kekou & Eleni Han, Contemporary Tales of the City in a digital art mode
11.30 – 11.45: Tea/coffee
11.45 – 13.10: SESSION 2
Panel A: Art and science
CHAIR: Oliver Grau
Florian Wiencek and Timothy Senior, Where Art meets Science: An Ontology
Morten Søndergaard, Bio Media Art – Aesthetic Paradigms in the Wet Zone
Lioudmila Voropai, The Discourse of “Art-Science Interaction”: Historical Perspective
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Panel B: Pioneers profiles
CHAIR: Paul Brown
Simone Gristwood, Re-wiring the past – Pioneering Computer Art in Japan
Rie Saito, Reconstructing Alternative Media Art History in Japan. Focusing on the experimental moving images by Toshio Matsumoto.
Aleksandra Kaminska, From technological utopia to mediated dystopia: The work of Piotr Wyrzykowski
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Panel C: Art now 1
CHAIR: Mike Stubbs
Kasia Molga and Sander Veenhof, Investigating the Notion of the Art 2.0
Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio, Face‐to‐Facebook, smiling in the eternal party
Heidi Tikka, Disintegration, Translation, Temporality
Perry Bard, Wrestling With The Canon:From Film To Database
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.40: SESSION 3
Panel A: Philosophies
CHAIR: Charlie Gere
Emile Devereaux, Accessing the Otherworld Through Pervasive Media
Saskia Korsten, Reversed Remediation; How Art Can Make One critically Aware of the Workings of Media
Hamda Darwish and Ben Roberts, Bare Media and the Sovereign
Christoph Brunner, The Production of Subjectivity in Interactive Media Environments
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Panel B: Bodies and code (artificial, hybrid, electric)
CHAIR: Andy Miah
Inge Hinterwaldner, Sources of Movement in Artistic Artificial Life Simulations
Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Everyday Aesthetics and Affective Display: self-rendering in/as social media(tions)
Nina Wenhart, (he)art breaking to the core – zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding
Diana Domingues, Cristiano Miosso, Abraham Paredes and Adson da Rocha, Art and Electricity: Bioengineering and electromyographic potentials for synaesthetic data visualization and body identity
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Panel C: The craft of art (data vs. objects)
CHAIR: Paul Brown
Morgan Quaintance, Distortion As Authenticity
Gail Kenning, Polar roses, code and crochet lace: Media non-specificity in craft-based textile forms
Nina Czegledy, The Art and Politics of Data Visualization
Sarah Thompson, Data Object Relations and the Interaction of New Media Art Within a Broader Art Historical Context
15.40 – 16.00: Tea/coffee
16.00 – 17.40: SESSION 4
Panel A: Blindspots (1968)
CHAIR: Mike Stubbs
Francesca Franco, Venice, Art & Technology. Shifts in the Biennale’s curatorial model, 1968
Jacob Lillemose, Voodoo Child! Setting the Guitar on Fire and Distorting the Sound of the Cybernetic Logic
Michael Goddard, Towards an Anarcheology of 1970s Media Art: Media Archaeology, Anarcheology and Anarchic Media Art
Michael Dieter, Reticular Aesthetics: From Tactical Media to Network Emergencies
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Panel B: Bodies and movement
CHAIR: Andy Miah
Elena Marcevska, Screen as site of division
Patricia Bueno-Delgado, Mapping Unusual Territories
Andy Best, T/Act – social empowerment through physical interaction with media art works
Clarisse Bardiot, “Eclats” : a video-annotation software to document digital performances
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Panel C: The spaces of art (recent examples)
CHAIR: Juan Cruz
Mike Leggett, Physical Cinema: recent practice and history
Denise Doyle, The History of Spaces (and Technologies) of the Imagination
Ewa Wójtowicz, In Translation. Time and Space in Art Re- Practices
Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Incompatible Elements
17.45 – 18.45: Keynote
Tanya Harrod, chaired by Charlie Gere
18.45 – 19.30: Receptions
Q.E.D EXHIBITION OPENING (curated by Sarah Cook, with Jean Gagnon)
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Book launches (TBA)
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MA-Net
19.30: Close