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Emerging Researchers’ Symposium
4 November 2015
Montréal, Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal, Coeur des Sciences,
Agora Hydro-Québec, 175 Président-Kennedy Avenue
in collaboration with
Media Art Histories Re-Create 2015, 5-8 November 2015
REGISTRATION TO Re-CREATE 2015 events are now open!
Registration to the Emerging Researchers' (ER) Symposium on November 4 is now open!
Early Bird registration for MAH Re-Create 2015 is likewise now open!
You can access the registration website through the
MAH Re-Create 2015 Registration page.
As you register to attend the Emerging Researchers' (ER) Symposium on November 4, also consider registering to attend the
MAH Re-Create 2015 conference, November 5-8. These are two separate tickets. A description of the events of Re-Create 2015,
including the MAH conference and satellite events is available on the conference homepage. The complete program and list
of presenters will be published at the end of June.
Registration to the ER symposium is free. Entrance on the day of the symposium will cost $30 if the venue is not at capacity.
Advice for travel arrangements and accommodation recommendations will be added to the website in the upcoming days.
INTRODUCTION
Presented as a special one-day event in collaboration with the sixth international Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology and the 10th Anniversary of the Re- conference series, this forum highlights the contributions of new scholars in the expanding interdisciplinary domain of media art histories. The Emerging Researchers’ symposium presents a unique opportunity for graduate students, recent PhDs and Postdocs as well as emerging practitioners outside of the academic milieu, to present their research and practices in the context of an international community of scholars and students, expand on and exchange ideas in working groups, receive feedback from established experts in the field and attend the foremost international conference of its kind.
Media Art Histories 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 practices involving technologies within research contexts, from a historical and critical point of view.
The Emerging researchers’ event intends to participate in and bear witness to critical discussions of practice, research and media in all their formations and re-formations, and at a moment when these structures are simultaneously contested and evolving. New scholars have an important voice in these debates, with the potential to throw into question disciplinary boundaries, common values and accepted definitions and shape anew the goals and horizons of future research and creative practice within and outside of institutions. This summit will allow multiple flows and pulses to emerge from its dialogues, pointing toward future paths in media arts research and practice.
Taking the Re-Create 2015 conference theme as its foundation, the Emerging Researchers’ event examines the important nexus of knowledge production and creative practice but with a particular emphasis on the mutability and multiplicity of media and making, selecting five nodes around which to gather constellations of theories, materials and practices: curating, institutions, research-creation, sites, and interdisciplinarity. These foci can multiply as concepts, methods, actions and sites in themselves.
EMERGING RESEARCHERS
An “emerging researcher” is defined in the framework of this event as a current graduate student (Masters or PhD), a recent graduate or postdoc (within 3 years) or an emerging practitioner (within 5 years of finishing training). The Emerging Researchers’ event presents contributions from emerging researchers who identify as artists, designers, scholars, technologists, curators and cultural workers working across diverse disciplines, sites and practices. The selection of presentations was made by a Committee of Examiners of 25 members, among the 165 submissions originating from 20 different countries.
For more information email
Cécile Martin, Emerging Researchers’ Symposium Coordinator at
emergingresearchers.mah2015@gmail.com.
PRESENTED BY
Hexagram http://hexagram.ca international network dedicated to research-creation in media arts, design, technology and digital culture, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Aurélie Besson, Études et pratiques des arts
PhD Student, Faculté des arts - Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Cécile Martin, Humanities
PhD Student, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC),
Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia University
Dana Samuel, Humanities
PhD Student, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC),
Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia University
Emre Sünter,
Communication Studies PhD Student, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Département en communication
- Université de Montréal (UdeM)
Erandy Vergara-Vargas,
Art History PhD Student,
Department of Art History and Communication Studies - McGill University
Frances Cullen, Art History
PhD Student, Department of Art History and Communication Studies - McGill University
Karelle Arsenault, Communication Studies
PhD Student - Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Mikhel Proulx,
Art History PhD Candidate,
Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History - Concordia University
Pamela Tudge, Fine Arts
Individualized (INDI) PhD
Student, School of Graduate Studies - Concordia University
MAH WEEK OVERVIEW
The conference will include plenary sessions of panel presentations as well as an Exploration Gallery. A series of workshops
will provide opportunities for participants to engage on site in discussions driven by making and experimenting creatively,
mediated by practitioners and educators.
The Emerging Researchers' Symposium will be followed by the Media Art Histories Conference, November 5-8. On the opening evening
of the conference, a special Re-Create exhibition will be held at Hexagram Concordia Black Box research space which will highlight
recent research-creation work by Hexagram members, further adding to the reflection on how practice-based approaches are used in
critical and historical research, and further demonstrating the entanglement between discursive and material practices.
Leonardo Award
For the first time, the organizers of the International Conference series on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in affiliation with Leonardo/ISAST, a driving force leading the field, is offering a scholarship in recognition of the best presentation at the Emerging Researchers’ Symposium in collaboration with Media Art Histories Re-Create 2015. The recipient will be awarded $1000 CAN to support their ongoing research. The award will be presented at the opening of the Media Art Histories Re-Create Conference, on November 5th. The scholarship is generously donated by Leonardo/ISAST and the editors of Relive: Media Art Histories (Leonardo Book Series, MIT Press, www.mitpress.mit.edu/books/relive).
Bridge panel
On the morning of the opening of the main conference (November 5th), a special “Bridge” panel session, moderated by KDMI Senior Fellow (U Toronto) Nina Czegledy, will create a link between the ER symposium and the Re-Create main conference. Featuring graduate student participants from the ER and expert mentors, this session will summarize the results of the ER conference and “bridge” them in relation to MAH’s themes.