Call for submission: International Conference pierre schaeffer: mediArt
Dates and venue: October 6the- 7th, 2010
Astronomski Centar Rijeka / Rijeka Astronomical Center, Croatia
Art Kino Croatia, Rijeka
Organization:
Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Dolac 1 / 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
In collaboration with:
Mediainmotion Berlin, University of Zagreb: Academy of Music, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Fine Arts Academy , HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists) Zagreb
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, City of Rijeka, Ministry of Culture of the Reppublic of Croatia

Pierre Schaeffer’s work, among the ones most often mentioned when we speak of art and "new media" in the 20th century, is actually only partially known. Reduced to one single concept, musique concrète, it has become only famous pre-history of something as widespread as the sampling technique. It therefore seems that today it poses no challenge before us. But is that really so? What would Schaeffer tell us if he were here today with us, celebrating his hundredth birthday? And who is he actually: a media researcher or an artist?
In this context, Rijeka offers itself as a surprisingly adequate location: although Schaeffer has not visited this city during his life, at a certain point of time it has been a scene of another episode, whose interplay of "new media", wartime, and art, maybe in a different way and in a different sense, seems to be resounding from Schaeffer’s work as well: Are media and art allies at all, or do they have opposite interests?
At the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Pierre Schaeffer’s birth, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka organizes an international meeting at which we would very much appreciate your participation. The basic information about this event please find enclosed and a detailed elaboration of the program will follow after your application. Hoping that our collaboration on this project will be successful,
Conference Board
Dalibor Davidovic (University of Zagreb, Academy of Music, Croatia)
Niksa Gligo (University of Zagreb, Academy of Music, Croatia)
Seadeta Midzic (musicologist, Zagreb, Croatia)
Daniel Teruggi (Groupe de Recherches Musicales / Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Paris, France)
Jerica Ziherl (MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia)
Honored guests
Jacqueline Schaeffer
François Bayle
Ivan Picelj

Conference Topics:
1.  Media OR art?
* Machines à communiquer: Schaeffer’s experience and media theory
* Acousmonium
* Beyond language
* Art from the spirit of science?
* Planetary culture – planetary power?
* Production, distribution, creation – fundamental research and its application
* Entering the substance of sound – new foundation of art?

2. Media AND art?
* Pedagogy of the sound object
* Solfeggio of the sound object
* Analysis of electro-acoustic music
* Radio and art
* Performance, presentation, technologies
* Music/art as a research result?

None of these subjects are ment to be exclusive; any may be combined, others added. Criticism of the terminology, categories and assumptions made in this list will be perfectly acceptable. We also encourage papers on the margins of electroacoustic music and papers which discuss works in the fields of intermedia, installations, radio art, video music, multimedia, sound art etc.

Call for submissions
The official language of the conference is English. For the participants who will hold a lecture / read their paper, travel and accomodation expenses will be covered by the organizer. Deadline for presentation proposals receipt: April 30, 2010. Submissions including a summary of maximum 900 characters with spaces are to be made electronically to e-mail: jerica.ziherl@mmsu.hr. Deadline for summary receipt:  May 30, 2010
Paper acceptance decisions will be emailed to applicants by the beginning of June.
Following the event, accepted papers will be published by the MMSU.
International conference "pierre schaeffer: mediArt" is part of the collaborative project X-OP: eXchange of art Operators and Producers. Project is partly funded by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture, Culture Programme