MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2013:

RENEW 2013

The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

Riga / October 8 – 11, 2013

Renew 2013

Welcome to RENEW in Riga

The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – RENEW, is hosted by RIXC Centre for New Media Culture in Riga in partnership with the Art Academy of Latvia, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Danube University’s Center for Image Science. Following Banff 2005, Berlin 2007, Melbourne 2009 and Liverpool 2011, the Media Art History Boards and Renew Cochairs invite you to attend RENEW conference in Riga, October 8-11, 2013!

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

The RENEW conference will be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including the ART+COMMUNICATION festival, with SAVE AS – a thematically related media art exhibition, receptions, live performances and concerts.

News

08/10/13

We will provide live stream from Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference opening keynote by Prof. Erkki Huhtamo in

19/09/13

You are welcome to attend two brilliant concerts which will take place in the framework of “Art+Communication 2013” festival

Keynotes

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Prof. Erkki Huhtamo

University of California, Los Angeles

"...Hey you, get off of my cloud" Media Archaeology as Topos Study

There are many ways of doing media archaeology. This lecture will offer a closer look at one of them: topos study. Topoi are formulas and

Time:Tuesday, October 8 at 18.00

Venue:Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku str. 4a

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Prof. Lev Manovich

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Looking at one million images: How visualization of big cultural data helps us to question our cultural categories

The explosive growth of cultural content on the web including social media since 2004 and the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and other institutions make

Time:Friday, October 11 at 19.00

Venue:Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku str. 4a

Sessions

Networked Art:

Histories of networked art and media technologies

Archiving:

Archiving, preserving and representing new media art

New Imagery:

Multifarious potential of expression in media art – ‘new imagery’ of our times

Media Archeology:

Histories Media archaeology

Paradigm Shift:

Paradigm shift – from new media to post-media conditions in art

Eastern European Histories:

Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the Baltics

Geospatial:

Revising the geospatial aspects – for writing comparative media art histories

Techno-Ecologies:

Resilient networks and emerging ‘techno-ecological’ art practices

Art and Science:

Art and Science

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Art+Communication

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Partners

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RIXC

RIXC Centre of New Media Art

Maskavas street 10, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
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Ph. +371 67228478, +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)

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