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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>RE:TRACE 2017: Call for Papers </SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology titled <B>RE:TRACE</B> focuses on an evaluation of the status of the meta-discipline MediaArtHistories today.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>More than a decade after the first conference founded the field now recognized worldwide as a significant historical inquiry at the intersection of art, science, and technology, Media Art Histories is now firmly established as a dynamic area of study guided by changing media and research priorities, drawing a growing community of scholars, artists and artist-researchers. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Immersed in both contemporary and historiographical aspects of the digital world, we explore the most immediate socio-cultural questions of our time: from body futures, information society, and media (r)evolutions, to environmental interference, financial virtualization, and surveillance. And we do so through a fractal lens of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, bridging art history, media studies, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, and beyond. MediaArtHistories is a field whose theory, methods, and objects of study interweave with and overlay other disciplines.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The organizing committee invites researchers of different areas, disciplines and practices to submit individual papers, posters and full panels with new and original research preferably in the following themes:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>MediaArtHistories – historiographies and futures of an ever-emerging field<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Institutional histories of Media Art<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Media Art & Politics (surveillance, climate, visualizations, etc.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Collecting media art / Media Art market<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Archiving, preserving and representing Media Art<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Re-Use of cultural heritage data, including education, learning and research<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Methodologies and research tools for MediaArtHistories with a focus on Digital Humanities<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>International and local histories and practices of media art<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(Post-)Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art, science and technology<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Paradigm shift – Digital vs. Post-Digital Theory<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Alternative histories for Media Art in relation to newly evolving or unexpected fields.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Models and perspectives of research fields adapted across traditional disciplinary lines.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>New symbolic architecture of digital super companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, FB, Google)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The conference program will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations and posters, as well as a small number of invited speakers. Presentations will be delivered in a range of formats, from panel discussions to a poster session. We particularly encourage submissions by researchers from international contexts outside of Europe and North America.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Keynote lectures by internationally renowned, outstanding leaders in the field, will deliberate on the central themes of the conference series, its histories and futures.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Submission Deadline: March 26, 2017</SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance will be announced by April 30, 2017.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Individual proposals for papers should consist of a max. 250-word abstract with title.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Proposals for full panels should consist of a max. 500-word abstract outlining the panel and individual topics of confirmed speakers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Submission language is English. Submitters should upload a short bio file (Word), no longer than ½ page per person. The short bios will be used on the conference website together with your abstracts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Initiated by the Media Art Histories Board (Steering Committee): </SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Deputy Head of Department & PhD Tutor / Media and Communications / Goldsmiths University of London / UK); Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Dr.h.c. Oliver GRAU, MAE (Head of Dept & Chair Professor in Image Science / Danube University / AT); Dr. Linda Dalrymple HENDERSON (David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History / Dept of Art + Art History / University of Texas at Austin / US); Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana Arts Program, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, GER); Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO (Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media / University of California Los Angeles / US); Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN (Professor of Media and Innovation / National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA) / University of New South Wales, Sydney / AU); Prof. Dr. Machiko KUSAHARA (School of Letters, Arts and Sciences / Waseda University / Tokyo, Japan); Prof. Dr. Tim LENOIR (Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society / Duke University / US); Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN (Dean / Stamps School of Art & Design / University of Michigan / US); Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS (Director / Fine Arts at College of Fine Art / University of New South Wales /AU)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>MAH Honorary Board:</SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> Martin KEMP, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Douglas DAVIS †, Rudolf ARNHEIM †<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Conference dates:</SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> November 30 – December 02, 2017, Krems (World Cultural Heritage) & Vienna, hosted by DANUBE UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><BR><B>Venues: </B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Danube University / Located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World Heritage Wachau region, Danube University is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life-long learners. Located at both a modern university campus and in the Göttweig Monastery, the Dept. for Image Science is an internationally unique institution for research and innovative teaching with an international faculty, at this point 120 scholars from various nations and disciplines. The innovative approach of the Department for Image Science with the close connection to practice has developed the Archive of Digital Art and founded in 2006 the low-residency MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA answering the need for international, post-graduate studies.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Vienna / The vibrant capital of the Republic of Austria in Central Europe meeting international travel standards with safe and exciting surroundings that embrace culture both old and new. Planning for Vienna is being organized with partner institutions and colleagues. Fast and frequent public transportation between Vienna and Krems allows for a blending of two locations into one venue, distributing separate days in each venue. <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Links:</SPAN></B><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Re:Trace call for papers – <U><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><A href="http://www.mediaarthistory.org/retrace">www.mediaarthistory.org/retrace</A></SPAN></U> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA – <U><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><A href="http://www.mediacultures.net/mah">www.mediacultures.net/mah</A></SPAN></U> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Archive of Digital Art – <U><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><A href="http://www.digitalartarchive.at">www.digitalartarchive.at</A></SPAN></U> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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