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04.11 Wed/mer
SESSION 1 CONCEPTS IN PRACTICE
Mod. Alice MING WAI JIM, Concordia University
Harold Innis’s Proto-Media Archaeology
Liam COLE YOUNG, Trent University
Infolding the Self: From Video Therapy to Video Art
Peter SACHS COLLOPY, University of Southern California
Préservation et archéologie des média: importance de la rétro ingénierie dans la reconstruction archéologique d’œuvres d’art à composante technologique
Morgane STRICOT, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon
SESSION 2 SENSING THE BODY
Mod. Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, University of Lodz
Henry Cowell and Dr. and Mrs Dower’s “Tonal Therapy”
Pia VAN GELDER, University of New South Wales
An Improper Materialism: On Aesthesis, Synesthesia, and the Digital
Ashley SCARLETT, University of Toronto
Aphasic Aesthetics: Thinking with the Body across Disability Studies, Media Art and Phenomenology
Megan TOYE, York University
SESSION 3 MOVING THE ACADEMIC
Mod. Louis-Claude PAQUIN, UQAM
Synartesis: An Experiment in Inter-Chronological and Trans-Historical Teaching and Research
Allison LEIGH, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Recherche-création dans les écoles d’art et institutions françaises
Lucile HAUTE, Ensad + Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis
La recherche-création à l’université : cadrage sociohistorique et enjeux d’un nouveau type de recherche
Chantal PROVOST, UQAM
SESSION 4 POWERS IN ACTION
Mod. TBA / À VENIR
Remembering the Future of the Indigenous Internet
Mikhel PROULX, Concordia University
Entendre la guerre, éprouver le temps : l’expérience sonore dans Starry Night (2006) de Mazen Kerbaj
Mirna BOYADJIAN, UQAM
Sensory Vantage Points: Examining Habitual addresses to Digital Media in NYC Public Spaces
Bria COLE, The New School
SESSION 5 MOBILIZING THE INSTITUTION
Mod. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR, University of Akureyri
Recalling Renegade Library and other Social Practice Methodologies from the late 1990s
Lois KLASSEN, Queen’s University
‘The Arts Make Us Richer’™: Propertization of Digital Art Using Cryptocurrency Technologies
Martin ZEILINGER, Anglia Ruskin University
Construction d’une image globale par les musées : institutions muséales et entreprises dans les années 1990
Karine LÉONARD BROUILLET, Université de Montréal
Curating Humanism: Negotiating the Politics of New Media, 1965/2015
Tina RIVERS RYAN, Columbia University
05.11Thu/jeu
OPENING ADDRESS/DISCOURS D’OUVERTURE
Chris SALTER, Concordia University
Oliver GRAU, Media Art Histories, Danube University
SESSION 1 SETTING THE STAGE: OVERVIEW AND PRECEDENTS
Simultaneous translation/Traduction simultanée
“Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture” Revisited
Michael CENTURY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Regard transversal sur des pratiques inter- et trans
Louise POISSANT, FRQSC
Transdisciplinary experimentation and ontological change: an ethnography of art-science
Georgina BORN, Oxford University
Weaving Strands: Research-creation practices in universities, cultural institutions and artist-run culture in Montreal
Cheryl SIM, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art + Gisèle TRUDEL, UQAM
06.11 Friday/vendredi
SESSION 2A METHODOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
Mod. Georgina BORN, Oxford University & Oslo University
Simultaneous translation/Traduction simultanée
La méthode de Pierre Schaeffer
Yan BREULEUX, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Post-digital Circulationism. On- and Offline Intermedia Discourse in Contemporary Art and Scholarship
Katja KWASTEK, VU, University Amsterdam
Discourse-analytical aesthetics for digital cultures
Martina LEEKER + Irina KALDRACK, Leuphana University
Practices and Languages of Art
Sally Jane NORMAN, University of Sussex
SESSION 2B PRACTICES: HISTORIES OF THE STUDIO LAB
Mod. Michael CENTURY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement
W. Patrick McCRAY, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, an Australian artist between Art, Industry, Science and the Academy.
Martyn JOLLY + Anthony OATES, Australian National University
Multimedia artists and fieldwork (1960-80s)
Jelena MARTINOVIC, Geneva University of Art and Design
SESSION 3A THEORIES: LIMITING THE ANTHROPOCENE
Mod. Sally Jane NORMAN, University of Sussex
End Time: Apocalyptic Systems in Media Art and Design
Kevin HAMILTON, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign + Orit HALPERN, The New School University
Instrumental Anthropocentrism: insects, sustainable culture and technological innovation
Roberta BUIANI, York University
Cultural Software – Materiality and Abstraction in 60s art and technology
Simon PENNY, University of California at Irvine
SESSION 3B RE-MAKING THE CRITICAL UNIVERSITY:
MEDIA LABS, MAKING, AND CRITICAL PRACTICE [PANEL]
Mod. Nicholas BALAISIS, University of Waterloo
The productive contradictions of critical making
Matt RATTO + Ginger COONS, University of Toronto
Technoromantics, Maker Culture and Critical Neo-Luddism
Marcel O’GORMAN, University of Waterloo
Audio Toy Box: Building customizable communication therapy toys using Radio Frequency Identification
Owen CHAPMAN + Eric POWELL, Concordia University
SESSION 4A PIONEERING EXPERIENCES IN ART, SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA [PANEL] +
INTERDISCIPLINARY SITE
Mod. Diana DOMINGUES, University of Brasília – CNPq
Fotoformas, 1949-1951: Photography and Algorithmic Devices, An Early Interaction.
Andrés BURBANO, Universidad de los Andes
Franceso Mariotti: in pursuit of a hybrid ideal through art, media and nature
José-Carlos MARIÁTEGUI, Alta Tecnología Andina
Sighting Technology in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
María FERNÁNDEZ, Cornell University
Interdisciplinaries Approaches to Second Order Cybernetics During the Early 70s in Chile: Artistic, Scientific and Techno/Political Experiences.
Marcel VELASCO, Universidad de Chile
SESSION 4B ARCHIVING FAILURE: FILM, HISTORY AND
UNFINISHED PROJECTS [PANEL]
Mod. Orit HALPERN, The New School University
Notebooks, raw film reels and ephemera as Research-creation (Process)
Monika Kin GAGNON, Concordia University
Mechanography, Film and Education
Mark HAYWARD, York University
Right before the first boom: The lost stereoscopy of Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada
Alison Reiko LOADER, Concordia University
Filming Simondon: Cultural Hysteresis and Technological Humanism
Ghislain THIBAULT, Wilfrid Laurier University
07.11 Saturday/samedi
SESSION 5A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AND HUMANITIES
LABS: CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE-BASED
THEORY [PANEL]
Mod. Jussi PARIKKA, University of Southampton
Exhibition as Lab. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048, Documenta 13
Joasia KRYSA, Liverpool John Moores University
Media and Computer Archaeology at Humboldt University
Stefan HöLTGEN, Humboldt University
The Theory & Practice of Posthumanities in the Media Archaeology Lab
Lori EMERSON, University of Colorado at Boulder
Situating the Media Archaeology Lab: Research, Art and the Public
Jesper OLSSON, Linköping University
Media Archaeology and Humanities Labs: Creative Knowledge and Practice-Based Theory
Darren WERSHLER, Concordia University
SESSION 5B PRACTICES: CURATING ALTERNATE HISTORIES
Mod. Christiane PAUL, The New School University
Ca-Re: Mapping and reactivating variable media artworks in the Latin American context
Jo-Ana MORFIN + Fernando MONREAL, Escuela Nacional de Conservación ENCRyM
Image-material-media – A philo-curatorial interrogation
Srajana KAIKINI, Manipal University
On display : The history and representational politics of feminist new media and performance art
Barbara CLAUSEN, UQAM
SESSION 6A THEORIES: OTHER SENSES
Mod. Thierry BARDINI, Université de Montreal
Re-Habilitating Bacteria
Jens HAUSER, University of Copenhagen
Coming To Our Senses: A Report on the Sensory Turn in Curatorial and Media Art Practice
David HOWES, Concordia University
Edmund Carpenter’s Experiments across Visual Anthropology and Critical Media Pedagogies
Michael DARROCH. University of Windsor
Hart COHEN. University of Western Sydney
Paul HEYER, Wilfrid Laurier University
SESSION 6B PRACTICES: CURATING AS RESEARCH
Mod. Rebecca DUCLOS, Concordia University
Virtual Volumes and Electric Choreographies Kinetic and Light Art in the David Bermant Collection
Christiane PAUL, The New School University
Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in Public Spaces
Morten SøNDERGAARD, Aalborg University
Projection Studies
Gabriel MENOTTI, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
New Media Curating : Sound as a Technological Medium
Laura Plana GRACIA, University of Sunderland
SESSION 7A METHODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY IMBROGLIO
Mod. Chris SALTER, Concordia University
The Co-production of Art: Collaborations between artists, scientists and engineers in Sweden, 1967-2009
Anna ORRGHEN, Uppsala University
Armonica/Automaton: Media Archaeologies of Affective Programming
Alison De FREN, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Writing on sound/writing with sound: intersection between sound art practice and research in sound studies Budhaditya
CHATTOPADHYAY, University of Copenhagen
SESSION 7B PRACTICES: TACTICS, ETHNICITIES, MATTERS
Mod. Monika Kin GAGNON, Concordia University
Tactical media in the age of communicative capitalism – closed story, unfinished project or current alternative?
Maciej OZOG, University of Lodz
Matter and Thought: Gordon Pask’s Practice-Based Research
María FERNÁNDEZ, Cornell University
Intersectionality and New Media Art: Your Ethnic Apparel is Still Downloading
Alice Ming Wai JIM, Concordia University
08.11 Sun/dim
SESSION 8A PRACTICES: DIFFERENTIAL SITES
Mod. Éric LETOURNEAU, UQAM
On A Critical History of Media Art in Japan (2014)
Jung-Yeon MA, Tokyo University of the Arts
A Brief (Media) History of the Indigenous Future
Jason Edward LEWIS, Concordia University & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Digital Art History, 56°56’51” N 24°6’23”E
Solvita ZARINA, University of Latvia
International Networks of Early Digital Arts
Darko FRITZ, Zagreb
SESSION 8B INTERDISCIPLINARITY: CIRCUIT BREAKDOWN Mod. TBA / À VENIR
Slow-Scan TV Art; Revisited/Revived
Patrick LICHTY, American University of Sharjah
Psychedelic Circuitry 1880–1980. Signals between Esotericism, New Religions, Engineering and Art – Their Potentials of Positive Diffraction Today
Shintaro MIYAZAKI, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Chroma Glitch: Datamosh for Digital Video
Carolyn L. KANE, Ryerson University
SESSION 9 TRAJECTORIES : CHALLENGES, BEST PRACTICES, AND THE
FUTURE OF TRANSDICIPLINARY COLLABORATION IN MEDIA ART, SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY [PANEL]
Mod. Louise POISSANT, FRQSC
Ruth WEST, University of North Texas
Roger MALINA, University of Texas
Sara DIAMOND, OCAD University
François-Joseph LAPOINTE, Université de Montréal