<nettime-ann> New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

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New Media and the Arts (Ra'anana, 23 Nov 16)

 

The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall),

Ra’anana, Israel, November 23, 2016

 

New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights

Symposium

 

Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus

of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its

appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a

growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition

of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and

software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote

from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and

scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face

losing an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial

digital culture".

 

Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of

notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA

https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html), initiated by Prof.

Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art

Histories.

 

The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel.

Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing

various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts.

The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality

("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality

Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live

performance by Shaul Tzemach.

 

Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature,

Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel,

havaal@openu.ac.il

    

    

PROGRAM

 

9:30-10:00 Gathering

 

10:00-10:30        

Greetings and Welcome Address

Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel

Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language

and the Arts, The Open University of Israel

    

       

10:30-11:30        

Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department of Sociology, Political Science

and Communication, The Open University of Israel

 

Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer

School of Communication, IDC Herzliya

Time Body Study / Performative Experiment

 

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

    

        

11:45-13:00

Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Political

Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel

 

Keynote Address

Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University,

Austria

Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image

Science

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

   

      

14:00-15:00        

Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet

Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reaching Out and Being Moved: Embodied Aesthetics, Moral Affordances,

and the Graphical User Interface

 

Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon

Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar College of

Engineering, Design and Art

Sensoring Art: The Art Object in the IoT (Internet of Things) Era

 

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

 

15:15-16:15

Chair: Prof. Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language and the

Arts, The Open University of Israel

 

Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office,

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Performing the Digital Museum

 

Dr. Yael Eylat Van Essen, Faculty of Design, Holon Institute of

Technology; Tel Aviv University

Between the Real and the Virtual: Rethinking the Museum

 

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

    

        

16:30-17:30

Chair: Tsila Hassine, Laboratoire Art & Sciences, Université Paris 1

Panthéon Sorbonne, and Department of Software Engineering, Shenkar

College of Engineering Design and Art

 

Ronen Leibman, Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and

Design, Jerusalem

From Video Art to Video Games and Back

 

Dr. Avi Rozen, New Media Artist and Independent Scholar

Cyberspace: Toward a Minor Art

 

Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The

Open University of Israel

Concluding Remarks

   

     

17:30-18:00 | Live Performance

Shaul Tzemach, Interdisciplinary Artist

Light Sense vE

    

    

Full program at: http://www.publicators.com/app/dms.asp?ms_id=17018

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