Ponencia: Carmen López-San Segundo
Título: The Cosmorama: Retrieval and Curation of a Lost Media Art Form
The 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – RE:SOURCE – will celebrate Media Art Histories and the role that its main agents have had in the multiple developments of art, science and technology with a focus on the past 60 years.The main historical theme of the conference series – the histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology – will form the core of the event and the sub themes include the following: 1)“Memory. How to create future memories: documentation, preservation and new technologies” ; 2)“Climate Actions, Environment and Public Humanities” ; 3)“Pioneers of Media art” ; 4)“Media art history outside and inside the museum”.The title ‘RE:SOURCE‘ refers to a sub theme specifically introduced in the MAH Venice edition of the conference series. This theme will be centred on the climate crisis and questions of ecological sustainability considered in all their ramifications analysed through the lenses of Media Art (History). It will be highlighted during the track 2 of the conference, and during a special PhD day event and workshop led by a duo formed by a senior chair and an emerging scholar, in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari and the Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change.