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Welcome to RE:SOUND, the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Arts 2019 - Aalborg, Denmark. RE:SOUND is part of the Media Arts Histories conference series, bringing together leading researchers, artists, and scientists on a series of interdisciplinary topics for over 14 years.

The RE:SOUND conference will take a specific interest on the theories, practices, histories, etc., of art and technology which are focusing on, concerned with, reflecting on, including, mobilising and/or working with sound as a main component or an integral part. RE:SOUND will host four days with 10 tracks of paper sessions, panels, workshops, practice-based interventions, exhibitions, performances, poster sessions, a PhD workshop and keynotes.
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Sebastian Schwesinger

Germany
Sebastian Schwesinger was awarded his Masters in cultural history and theory, musicology, and philosophy by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2013. His doctoral project investigates the media history of virtual acoustics. He is a research associate at the Chair of Cultural Techniques and History of Knowledge (Prof. Christian Kassung) at the Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2015, he has coordinated the project “Auralization of Archaeological Spaces” at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. His interests include auditory media cultures, and sonic modes of thinking and reasoning, cultural economics, and game studies. Since 2011, he has organized the sound studies colloquium and public lecture series “KlangDenken” (sonic thinking) in Berlin in collaboration with Felix Gerloff. He founded the student radio magazine “KulturWelle” and is member of gamelab.berlin. Recent Publications include “Sounding Out Public Spaces in Late Republican Rome” /w Erika Holter & Susanne Muth, in: Butler, S./Nooter, S. (eds.) Sound and the Ancient Senses, New York: Routledge, 2019, and “What Does It Mean to Think Sonically? Contours of Noise as a Sonic Figure of Thought” /w Felix Gerloff, in: Schwesinger, S. et al. (eds.) Navigating Noise, Cologne: Walther König, 2017.