Webstreaming 
Refresh!  the 1st International Conference on the 
Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology 

" Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, this Conference on the Histories of Media Art will discuss for the first time the history of media art within the interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of art. Banff New Media Institute, the Database for Virtual Art and Leonardo/ISAST are collaborating to produce the first international art history conference covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art. "
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/

Venue:
September 29 - October 1, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
Conference program with streaming times  www.MediaArtHistory.org

Viewing:
Since we have only a few places left to attend the conference in Banff we are webstreaming live all keynotes, sessions and discussions from the site. Viewing the sessions in groups at Universities, Libraries, and Art Centers is encouraged, in order to facilitate local dialogue.  Webstreaming is available in Quicktime and Windows Media. For optimal viewing on larger screens and for in-screen viewing of powerpoint presentations, prior download of Windows Media is recommended.


Program:
29. September 05 

GMT 15:30 h /  CANADA 8:30 am 
keynote Edmond Couchot: Towards the Autonomous Image 

16:30h / 9:30 am - opening plenary - MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes 1 
(Chairs: Oliver Grau and Gunalan Nadarajan ) 
After photography, film, video, and the little known media art history of the 1960s-80s, today media artists are active in a wide range of digital 
areas (including interactive, genetic, telematic and nanoart). Media Art History offers a basis for attempting an evolutionary history of the 
audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the Panorama, Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art of recent decades. This panel tries to clarify, if and how varieties of Media Art have been splitting up during the last decades. It examines also how far back Media Art reaches as a historical category within the history of Art, Science and Technology. This session will offer a first overview about the visible influence of media art on all fields of art. 
Speakers:  Gunalan Nadarajan, Luise Poissant, Oliver Grau, Mario Carpo 

17:30h / 11:30 am - plenary Methodologies 
(Chair: Mark Hansen and Erkki Huhtamo) 
Critical overview of which methods art history has been using during the past to approach media art. 
Speakers: Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Irina Aristarkhova, Andreas Broeckmann 

21:10h / 2:10 pm - plenary - Image Science and Representation: From a Cognitive Point of View 
(Chair: Barbara Stafford) 
Although much recent scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences has been "body-minded" this research has yet to grapple with a major problem familiar to contemporary cognitive scientists and neuro scientists. How do we reconcile a top-down, functional view of cognition with a view of human beings as elements of a culturally shaped biological world? Historical as well as elusive electronic media from the vantage of an embodied and distributed brain. 
Speakers: Barbara Stafford, Kristin Veel, Christine Ross, Phillip Thurtle & 
Claudia X. Valdes, Christopher Salter, Tim Clark 

12:25 h / 4:25 pm - concurrent session 1 - Art as Research / Artists as Inventors 
(Chair: Dieter Daniels) 
Do "innovations" and "inventions" in the field of art differ from those in the field of technology and science? Have artists contributed anything "new" to those fields of research? 
Speakers: Dieter Daniels, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Fred Turner, Simon Penny, 
Cornelius Borck 

see www.MediaArtHistory.org for continuation