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RENEW 2013

RENEW, the 5th edition of the International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Riga, October 8-11, 2013.

RENEW will feature three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on the histories of networked digital, electronic and technological media arts.

This year, RENEW will be hosted by RIXC Centre for New Media Culture in Riga in partnership with Danube University’s Center for Image Science, Art Academy of Latvia, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and Liepaja University’s Art Research Lab. 

Registration for RENEW conference is currently open. 

VENUE

the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a

DATES

October 8th-11th, 2013

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Rasa SMITE & Raitis SMITS

HONORARY BOARD 

Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS, Robert ADRIAN

RENEW CONFERENCE ADVISORY BOARD

Eric KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE, Mark TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH, Edward SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Frieder NAKE

MAH CONFERENCE SERIES STEERING COMMITTEE

Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS

PROGRAM

Opening Day- Tuesday, October 8

18.00 – 19.30 – Keynote Lecture by Erkki HUHTAMO

19.30 – 21.30 – Reception

Day One – Wednesday, October 9

9.30 – 11.00 – Networked Art Plenary Session

11.15 – 13.00 – Networked Art Panel A, Media Archaeology

13.45 – 15.15 – Networked Art Panel B, Media Archaeology Panel B

15.30 – 17.00 – Paradigm shift Panel A

15.30 – 16.10 – Networked Art Panel C1

16.15 – 17.00 – Networked Art Panel C2

17.00-18.00 – Networked Art Presentation Session, Media Archaeology Presentation Session

9.30 – 18.00 – Networked Art Poster Session (all day)

Day Two – Thursday,October 10

9.30 – 11.00 – Archiving Plenary Session

11.15 – 13.00 – Archiving Panel A, Paradigm Shift Panel B

15.30 – 16.45 – Archiving Panel C, EE-Histories Panel B

17.00 – 18.00 – Archiving I Presentation Session, Archiving II presentation session

9.30 – 18.00 – Archiving Poster Session (all day)

18.00 – 20.00 – Techno ecologies: Playing Fields (participatory session), Paradigm Shifts in Media Art/Science Education (participatory session)

Day Three – Friday, October 11

9.30 – 11.00 – New Imagery Plenary Session

11.15 – 13.00 – New Imagery Panel A, Techno-ecologies Panel A 

13.45 – 15.15 – New Imagery Panel B, Techno-ecologies Panel B

15.30 – 16.45 – Art-Science Panel A, Geospatial Panel A

17.00 – 18.00 – Paradigm Shift Presentation Session, Techno-ecologies Presentation Session

9.30 – 18.00 – Paradigm Shift Poster Session (all day)

18.30

Introduction of selected host of Re:2015 by steering committee members and Christopher SALTER

Keynote lecture by Lev MANOVICH 

Venue: Latvian Academy of Arts, Kalpaka blv. 13