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Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

Media Art History 2011 – Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, which takes account of the questions surrounding documentation and methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims to illuminate the global phenomena of media art. Given Liverpool’s historic role as a center of British industry and its leadership in the sector of digital culture, we shall explore the relationship between the industrial revolution and the information age with respect to media art around the world.

Considering the international scope of the histories of media art, science and technology, Rewire is also listed as part of the “McLuhan in Europe” programme, and will take place concurrently with The Asia Triennial in Manchester and Abandon Normal Devices, the North West’s festival of new cinema and digital culture which returns to Liverpool in September 2011.Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, the conference series on the Histories of Media Art focusses on McLuhan’s role in the history of media art within interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts.