Contemporary art has always been media art, insofar the issue of the symposium is the possibility of a digital media art in the age of digital self-evidence. Even if the euphoria of the media theories in the 1980s and 1990s was characterized by a fixation on the technological moment, today the focus is on transmedial and multimodal continuities and refers to different types of media. This opens up new perspectives on the art and design of immersion as a formal principle that overcomes media boundaries, instead of repeating the traditional ontological question about the truth of the images.

If the authors title a symposium Immersion – Design – Art: Revisited, they are aiming at independent media theoretical perspectives, where media art is neither a simple effect of media technology, nor the social reality of media is confused with the artistic imagination of media artists. Remember how reckless the Internet was celebrated in the early years as an emancipatory paradise: Freedom appeared to be an automatic function of technology.

The congress is a special cooperation of the Muthesius University, the University of Applied Sciences Kiel and the Research Group Moving Image Science Kiel. The official deadline for abstracts is February 29, 2016.

Abstracts should be up to 300 words in length. Please send a short CV, contact details and your abstract via: kontakt@bewegtbildwissenschaft.de The presentation should not take longer than 60 minutes plus 30 minutes for discussion and technical setup.

If you are interested in contributing an abstract, a style sheet is available online: www.movingimagescience.com. Please contact the organizers Lars C. Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, and Norbert M. Schmitz via e-mail if you have any further questions.