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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Excavation the Future July 17, 2001 Deadline for proposals: October, 2001 Term: December, 2001 EXCAVATING THE FUTURE - ENCOUNTERS OF ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, HISTORIANS, AND FUTUROLOGISTS 1.Virtual Man: An Archeology of Moving Pictures Prague, December 4.5. 2001 Goethe Institut Prag, Center for Contemporary Art Prague As we tend more and more rely on new communication technologies, we need to understand where they are coming from and what the ramifications of their use are. Hence there is internationally a growing interest in the history and archeology of media. Excavating the Future seeks shed a light on this questions and to facilitate this movement by connecting individuals and institutions, artists and scientists, and by initiating their future collaborations. In his dissertation published in Prague in 1818, Jan Evangelista Purkyne (Purkinje) was first to observe that we see an object a fraction of a second after it disappears from our visual field. The discovery of this phenomenon, which was described in a greater detail by Peter Mark Roget in 1824 and called later persistence of vision, has been the basis of devices and media that have turned still images into moving pictures, including cinema, television, as well as digital audiovisual technology that is transforming the present world. Electronic media increasingly influence our everyday life as they provide us with new possibilities and change the way of life as well as the way we understand ourselves. This fastest growing field necessitates its self-examination, a reflection of its historical and theoretical concepts and preconceptions, raising questions such as follows: How do cognitive models contribute to the evolution of electronic media and, conversely, what is the role of digital technology in cognitive science? How is the rapid growth of electronic media embedded in history? How do cultural traditions condition the use and development of new media on one hand, and how do new media reconfigure these traditions and our notion of history on the other? The conference will seek to confront the latest findings of cognitive science with the present development of electronic media and their aesthetic explorations by foregrounding self-reflectivity and historicity in these closely related, and yet different fields. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists and artists, artists who are using the scinetific methods, historians and futurologists in the hope that such encounters can contribute not only to the emerging field of electronic media archeology and history but could also inspire new collaborations between artists and scientists. The theme of the December conference, Virtual Man: An Archeology of Moving Pictures, highlights the perception and simulation of movement as a driving force behind the development of new media in the last two hundred years. The project Virtual Man is continuin of the Flusser Media symposium series organized by Goethe Institut Prag between 1992 and 1999. Organizers and their partners: The Goethe Institut and the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Faculty of Fine Arts Technical University Brno, Academy of Fine Arts Prague, The National Museum of Technology in Prague, Center for Culture and Technology Budapest, Institute for Advanced Studies at Charles University and further initiatives and institutions. Invited speakers: Lev Manovich, Miklos Peternak, Siegfried Zielinski, Friedrich Kittler, Jonathan Crary, Tom Gunning, Erkki Huthamo, Semir Zeki, Nicholas Wade, Knowbotic Research, Jiri Fiala, Ivan Havel, Michael Bielicky, Bohuslav Blazek, Andrej Smirnov, Carsten Holler, Roy Ascott. contacts: Milos Vojtechovsky Center for Contemporary Arts Jeleni 9 118 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic tel +420 2 24373178 email: [email protected] http://www.fcca.cz/newsite/cz/page2/info1.html Jaroslav Andel New York email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold