Phd M-Node

Planetary Collegium, M-Node & NABA Media Design & New Media Art Symposium in collaboration with NoemaLab and Mediateca Santa Teresa

present

New Media Art Education & Research 3: Always Already New
Thinking Media, Subversing Feeling, Scaffolding Knowledge: Art and Education in the Praxis of Transformation
curated by Francesco Monico

December 16 – 18, 2010
Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, Milano
http://conferences.noemalab.org/

Videos

Monument to DoubleFaced.com (offline monument), Angelo Plessas, 2010, courtesy the artist and Gloria Maria gallery

Celebrating the 30 years of the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, NABA, and as part of our blueprint program aimed at exploring the relations among culture, art and technologies, the PhD Program of the Planetary Collegium’s M-Node and the NABA School of Media Design & New Media Art, in collaboration with NoemaLab are organizing a 3-day meeting on December 16 – 18, 2010, in Milan @NABA to challenge, foresee and debate in a subversive, non linear, anarchic and non academic free way, future strategies and forms of education in Media, Art & Design and the role of the research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technologies.

“Always Already New” is part of the New Media Art Education & Research conferences that the PhD Program M-Node and the NABA Department of Media Design & New Media Art have been organizing for a few years. The education and research programs will provide opportunities for discussion and engagement with a wide range of professionals: teachers, researchers, scholars, curators, meetings’ experts, from art and technology labs across Italy and worlwide.

After the three days with international participants from many realms NABA Media Design & New Media Arts and M-NODE in collaboration with NoemaLab will also identify the key topics for a follow-up expert’s meeting as well as some urgent research areas to focus on in the 2011 symposium.

Keywords

Art on the Edge: new strategies for sustainable creativity;
The New Creativity: art and education in the time of transformations;
Transdisciplinary Territory: the limits of Video in Media education;
Changing visions: new models of art in education; Beyond Sensibility: new perspectives on art and its formation;
Authoritarian dreams imaginary, vision and utopias, beyond dreams;
New Instruments for Teaching and Learning: do they change anything?
Relevant experiences and case histories.

Schedule - list of abstracts
(draft 11th Dec. 2010)

Thursday, 16th Dec. 2010
FRAMEWORK
9.00	Welcome
9.30	Introduction	Francesco Monico	Planetary Collegium M-Node
9.50	Keynote	Stephen Kovats	(Don't) Think! Just Do!
10.20	Presentation	Roy Ascott	The School of Syncretic Strategy: from cybernetics to technoetics
11.00	Presentation	Pier Luigi Capucci	Media education, education and media
11.20	Coffee break
11.40	Presentation	Cristina Miranda, Matteo Ciastellardi	New Instruments for Teaching and Learning: do they change anything?
12.00	Presentation	Enrica Borghi	The value of waste
12.20	Presentation	Giovanni Boccia Artieri	Education and Research in the Networked Publics Era. Spreadeable Knolewdge from Virtual Classroom to Amatorial Online Practices
12.40	Presentation	Elif Ayiter	Conversations, P-individuals, Avatars: A Cybernetic Learning Strategy for the Metaverse
13.00	Presentation	Tommaso Tozzi	ASPETTI PROBLEMATICI DELLA NEW MEDIA EDUCATION NELLE ACCADEMIE DI BELLE ARTI ITALIANE
13.20	Lunch break
14.50	Presentation	Pavel Sedlak	Learning by Doing: A Prague Perspective
15.10	Presentation	Roberto Muffoletto	The End of Learning As We know It
15.30	Presentation	Fabio Fornasari, Sveva Avveduto	Research, art, education: new insights and visions at the crossroad of social media
15.50	Presentation	Assila Cherfi	Fragmentation as a direct connection between images and imagination in film and video
16.10	Coffee break
16.30	Presentation	Simona Caraceni	Technology in higher education of arts
16.50	Presentation	Polona Tratnik	Interdisciplinary Approaches to New- and Inter-Media Art Education and Research
17.10	Presentation	Alberto D'Ottavi
17.30	Presentation	tbd
17.50	Break
18.10	Panel	Pier Luigi Capucci	Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Stephen Kovats

Friday, 17th Dec. 2010
EXPERIENCES
9.00	Welcome
9.30	Keynote	Michel Bauwens, Adam Arvidsson, Bertram Niessen, Massimo Menichinelli	The P2P Foundation as an ecology of peer learning
10.00	Presentation	Antonio Caronia	Learning doesn’t mean submission. Freedom and profitability in school systems.
10.20	Presentation	Tarin Gartner	Performance art and relational art: a call for modernism and post modernism concepts
10.40	Presentation	Salvatore Iaconesi, Stefano Bonifazi	Utopian Architectures and the dictatorship of the imaginary
11.00	Presentation	Alessandro Ludovico	Neural, magazine as a node
11.20	Coffee break
11.40	Presentation	Gerfried Stocker	Ars Electronica
12.00	Presentation	Marco Mancuso	DIGICULT. Digital Art e New Media Theories tra riflessione critica e formazione
12.20	Presentation	IOCOSE	In the Long Run
13.00	Presentation	Sonia Cillari	Performative Spaces and the Body as Interface
13.20	Lunch break
14.50	Presentation	Amos Bianchi	The Chance Keepers
15.10	Presentation	Sarah Ciracì	Art like a bridge between the achievements of scientific thought and the consciousness and perception man has of himself and reality
15.30	Presentation	Efe Levent	Developing a Sense of Responsibility in an Age of Manipulation
15.50	Presentation	Massimiliano Viel	Between noise and silence. An approach to music analysis, composition and pedagogy from the standpoint of "repetition"
16.10	Coffee break
16.30	Presentation	Marco Baravalle	The experience of S.a.L.E
16.50	Presentation	Alterazioni Video	The Californization of the Planet
17.10	Presentation	Jaromil	NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute
17.30	Presentation	Kiuru Satu	How can I draw something that I haven’t known beforehand - Unconscious in art process
17.50	Break
18.10	Panel	Antonio Caronia	Gerfried Stocker, Josephine Bosma

Saturday, 18th Dec. 2010
THEORIES
9.00	Welcome
9.30	Keynote	Siegfried Zielinski
10.00	Presentation	Alan Shapiro	Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject
10.20	Presentation	Tine Melzer	VERBAL VISUALIZATION
10.40	Presentation	Domenico Quaranta	Talking to a Wider Audience: New Media in the Art Fair
11.00	Presentation	James Moore, Barry Cooper	The 3 ecologies as a design pedagogy
11.20	Coffee break
11.40	Presentation	Franco Torriani	Artists residencies: towards a mobility to come?
12.00	Presentation	Francesco Monico	Forewords of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a libertarian pedartgogy - Technology, Art, Research a pragmatic knowledge
12.20	Presentation	Gabriela Galati	Theater of Memory & Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas as Archive Models for the (Virtual) Conservation and Communication of Knowledge
12.40	Presentation	Jennifer Kanary	Art and Research, an innovative education Honours Programme that supports future art science collaborations
13.00	Presentation	Jaromil	Design patterns between Free Software and Permaculture
13.20	Lunch break
14.50	Presentation	Dimitri Chimenti	Notes for a rhetorical typology: grafts, drawings and inserts in Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah
15.10	Presentation	Patrizia Moschella	The paradox of plenty
15.30	Presentation	Fahrettin Ersin Alaca	A Management Theory for Art Education: Fuzzy Front End for Independent Progress
15.50	Presentation	Emanuela Patti	“We are a dream in a dream”. The illusion of reality analyzed in film narration
16.10	Coffee break
16.30	Presentation	Viola Lilith Russi	Fondazione D'Ars: experimental experiences in promoting new media art
16.50	Presentation	Luca Carrubba	Code, cartography and relational learning
17.10	Presentation	Mario Canali	HOMO RIDENS
17.30	Presentation	Roger Malina
17.50	Break
18.10	Panel	Francesco Monico	Roy Ascott, Derrick de Kerckhove, Roger Malina, Siegfried Zielinski

Location

Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, Milano

Milano Public Transportation website: http://www.atm-mi.it/en/Pages/default.aspx

Language

The official language of the symposium is English.

Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts (500 words maximum) are due by October 31, 2010. They should be submitted as an attached document in Text (txt), Rich Text (rtf), Open Document (odt) or Acrobat (pdf) formats by e-mail to: symposium2010@noemalab.org. Please, indicate in the text of the email that it is the abstract for the “Always Already New” symposium.

Acceptance

Abstracts will be acknowledged on receipt, and authors will be notified of acceptance by November 15th, 2010.

Submission of Full Papers

Papers (no more than 2500 words) will be required by December 23rd, 2010. Papers received after this date will not be published. Full details of copy-ready requirements will be supplied at the time of acceptance.

Presenters’ fee

In order to be included in the Conference Program, Conference Proceedings, publicity and announcements, the Registration Fee for presenters is 150 €. Payments are due by November 30, 2010. Details on how to pay the registration fee will be given at the time of acceptance.

The Conference Proceedings will be digitally published with an ISBN number before the beginning of the symposium. A printed release will follow on demand.

Entrance fee

- Full conference (3 Days): 100 € (application form: pdf - doc)
- The students pay no fee (application form: pdf - doc).

Website

http://conferences.noemalab.org/

Accommodation

The Mediateca Santa Teresa is close to Milano city center.

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