Media Art History » RECREATE 2015

Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.

Montréal, 4-8 November 2015

Re-Create 2015 will mark the 10th Anniversary of the
International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology. 
The conference will be hosted by two Hexagram sites at
Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), core
antennas of the largest network dedicated to research-based creative
practice in media art, design and technology. The venues are centrally
located in vibrant, downtown Montréal – the digital arts capital of
North America.


The conference returns to Canada since the inaugural event Refresh!
in Banff in 2005 to reflect on and re-examine topics of driving concern
that have continually arisen at the previous MAH editions in Berlin
(2007), Melbourne (2009), Liverpool (2011) and Riga (2013). The
entanglements among practice, theory and method within media art,
design, science and technology are increasingly critical to academic and
cultural milieus. Concurrently, the inclusion of artistic disciplines
involving technological-cultural instruments, concepts and methods is
increasingly supported internationally by granting agencies and policy
bodies. This has facilitated the emergence of practice-driven research
paradigms, along with questions of method, validation, opportunities and
problematics that such paradigms imply. Hence, Re-Create 2015
proposes the central question of what theories, methodologies and
techniques can be used to understand past, present and indeed, future
paradigms of creative material practice involving technologies within
research contexts, from a historical and critical point of view.


The concept of “research-creation” in Québec and later Canada at the
end of the 1990s put forward an integrated model of theory and practice,
as well as experimentation and creation in which the interpretive
disciplines (humanities and social science) are linked together with the
creative ones (art and design). For twelve years, Hexagram, the
interuniversity Centre for Research-Creation in Media Art, Design and
Technology is an ideal site to focus on the question and impact of
research-creation in the histories of media art, science and technology.
Its researchers are internationally recognized for developing
methodological and practice-based strategies and are actively
contributing to the role of interdisciplinary research frameworks in
Canada and abroad.


The conference will have three streams: theory, method and practice.
It will embrace the intercultural and interdisciplinary connections
between media studies, film studies, art, design, art history, computer
science, science studies, philosophy, cultural studies, human geography,
anthropology, sociology and music, among others, and these disciplines
impacts on the development of media art, science and technology.





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