Re:Trace Conference - Keynotes, Papers & Posters: Recent submissions
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Cybercontemporary art: mutations and digital contagion
Digital technologies are increasingly present and accessible in nowadays. This ubiquity produce a creative and specific research field, influencing the way others artistic production modes operates. Contemporary art, until ... -
Curating in the Age of Artistic Ubiquity and of Visulizing Techniques
The present cultural interest and technological effort around the subject of data mining, information retrieval and data and information visualization, not only in scientific fields, but also in common cultural experience ... -
Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency: Prototyping Counterveillance
This paper discusses how an interactive artwork, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA), can contribute to discussions of Big Data intelligence analytics. The CSIA is a publicly accessible Open Source Intelligence ... -
The Crowdsourced Archive: Mobile Media, Photography, and the Local(ized) Frame
As mobile devices have proliferated, so too have the number of images that attempt to document a sense of place. These images are contributing to a growing visual database of how individuals see a region or a location. In ... -
Critical mining, Blockchain and Bitcoin in contemporary art
The Bitcoin was originally conceived as an electronic decentralized system for capital transactions. Each node (user) has the same opportunities to get a reward when validating a collection of transactions (block). In the ... -
Crisis as Critical Practice in the MENA
The awakening civil dissent in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2010/2011 has been attended by forms of artistic as well as user-generated and cultural strategies that reflect critical dissonant practices in the ... -
Creative Encounters and Subaltern Aesthetics in the Early Years of the Indian Space Programme
The paper presents a historiography of satellite television in India, which was set up by the Indian space agency in the 1970s, and traces the involvement of creative practitioners in the conceptual development and ... -
Connective tissues in media interferences
Works of media art redefine seemingly stated borders between newly developed disciplines, as well as change the glossary they can operate. That is, witness diaries read in new programs in literature studies, alternative ... -
Computerising Leonardo: a visual dialogue from 1988 to now
I will begin with an excursus of computer vision techniques for exploring space in Renaissance paintings. I will then be looking at successive attempts in exhibitions and at one CD-ROM to use the dynamics of computer ... -
Computer art: the ‘orphan parent’ of media art
The sadness of most art is that it does not know its future. The sadness of much media art is that it does not know its (computer art) past. We develop alternative histories of media arts because of new trends, techniques ... -
Community Activist Video and the Origins of Video Art
On the basis that it is communication between us that makes us human and that real communication is a feedback process, moves were made in the mid-twentieth century to create a two-way media from the prevailing top-down ... -
Coding from the Latin American ancestral indigenous knowledge
Wawakipu is a computer science program developed by the MedialabUIO of the International Center for Advanced Studies of Communication for Latin America, which seeks to awaken computational thinking in children, mainly from ... -
Code-Switching: Queering Media Art Histories
Speaking in code is the well-documented strategy of subaltern and queer cultures that grants queer people safe passage amidst hostile environments. Queer codes are never entirely separate, but woven into other forms of ... -
Carlos Relvas (1838-1894): The Intriguing Research of his Stereo Archive
Early this year a new research project was launched in Portugal, entitled ‘European Stereo Masters: Carlos Relvas’. Stemming from previous research on Portuguese stereoscopy, this project is focused on the stereo photographs ... -
BioCare: Feminist Labs and the Aesthetics of Care
In the science lab objectivity is key. Protocols are set in place to ensure that experiments go on without interference, without subjectivity, unnecessary inquiry, emotion or caring. These do not seem to be sites of ... -
Beyond Visualization: Geneologies of Unmapped Complexity in Media Art and Technology
In his 2012 essay, “Are Some Things Unrepresentable,” theorist Alexander Galloway wondered whether an understanding of the control society required a skepticism toward the mapping of systems, given the prominent role of ... -
Between light and dark archiving
Some people argue that the digital archive is an oxymoron (Laermans and Gielen 2007) or that it is more akin to an anarchive (Ernst 2002, Zielinski 2014). Derrida mentioned the word anarchive to signal that ‘what remains ... -
Art, Science and Technology in Russia: current affairs and ambitions for the future (from institutional and artistic perspective)
Experiments in art, science and technology in the cultural situation of post-Soviet Russia have been remaining relatively marginal area of contemporary art, education and cultural production. There were very few artists, ... -
Art on Instagram: Imaginary museums, counter-collections and moving images
This paper addresses the impact of the photographic reproduction of artworks at the museums and sharing of these images on Instagram. Created in 2010, when the museum began to reconsider the prohibitions to use mobile ... -
The artistic contribution of the electrographic practices in the archaeology of electronic art
Nowadays that it is almost a fact that electronic art and, therefore, Media Art, was not born without inheritance, this research presents a return to the past through the Media Archaeology methodology and within Media Art ...