New Imaging: Transdisciplinary Strategies for Art Beyond the New Media :: November 5-6, 2010 :: Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, Australia.

A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as technology and as aesthetic idiom, as opportunity for creative initiatives and for critique, has become increasingly normative and doctrinaire. Mediation and the new media arts have in fact become the new medium of critical and pedagogical discourse: like water is for fish, like culture is for cultural studies, mediation is a concept that is taken for granted now because it is itself the medium in which we think and act, in which we swim. We need a concept that is amphibian, and that can leave its medium.

The concept we propose is a remediated apprehension of the image: an active image and activity of imaging beyond the boundaries of disciplinary definition, but also altering the relations of intermedia aesthetics and interdisciplinary pedagogy. This concept will need to incorporate a vibrant materialism of the image’s sensory and cognitive strata and an evanescent immaterialism of its affective qualities. Rather than locate our conference in the space of negotiation between disciplines or media (the “inter-”), we propose the opposition, transit and surpassing of the interdisciplinary by a “transdisciplinary aesthetics”, and its conceptual and physical practice of a “transdisciplinary imaging.”

Keynote Presenters :: Ann Ring Petersen :: Jens Hauser :: Roy Ascott*

Conference speakers :: Andrew Frost :: Daniel Mafe :: Darryn Ansted :: Douglas Kahn :: Edward Colless :: Erica Seccombe:: Harry Nankin :: Hugh Davies :: Gavin Perin :: Ian Gwilt :: Justin Clemens :: Adam Nash :: Kathy Cleland :: Lanfranco Aceti :: Leon Marvell :: Linda Matthews :: Lloyd Barret :: Lucia Ayala :: Mark Titmarsh :: Mitchell Whitelaw :: Oron Catts :: Petra Gemeinboeck :: Rob Saunders :: Stephen Little:: Susan Douglas ::

Co Chairs Transdisciplinary Image Conference :: Su Baker:: Paul Thomas

Conference Committee :: Brad BUCKLEY :: Brogan BUNT :: Ted COLLESS :: Ernest EDMONDS :: Petra GEMEINBOECK:: Julian GODDARD :: Ross HARLEY :: Martyn JOLLY :: Daniel MAFE :: David THOMAS

Conference Organiser ::Julian Stadon

The conference is supported by nine prominent Australian art schools in who have partnered together to focus on questions of the transdisciplinary image. Over two stimulating days acclaimed professionals including curators, historians, creative arts practitioners, media artists, critics and theorists explore transdisciplinary imaging.