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Return of operativity: Prolegomena to a grand narrative of media in deep time
When in recent decades extended temporal scales have entered media history, including MediaArtHistories, this has mostly implied the subversion of temporal coherence and evolutionary logic (cp. Huhtamo’s, Ernst’s and others’ ... -
Revolution of the Ear?
(Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005)How do acoustic dealings with machines change people’s conception of themselves? This essay presents the context of the media shift from image to sound using as an example the poetic theory of Charles Olson and relates ... -
Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor
This paper discusses the background, origins and development, as well as the functions and operation, of two early British video synthesisers by the artist/engineers who designed and built them: the EMS “Spectron” by Richard ... -
Right before the first boom: The lost stereoscopy of Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada
Where does failure sit within the history of research creation and its contemporary elaboration? While the ‘object’, the ‘work’, and even the ‘accident’ have been explored and critiqued as significant concepts for producing ... -
Right before the first boom: The lost stereoscopy of Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada
Where does failure sit within the history of research creation and its contemporary elaboration? While the ‘object’, the ‘work’, and even the ‘accident’ have been explored and critiqued as significant concepts for producing ... -
Robot Aesthetics and Cultural Imperialism: the Double Hermeneutic of Computational Photography
This paper attempts to investigate the consequences of the emerging field of Automatic Aesthetic Quality Estimation, where deep neural networks are trained to predict the average ‘aesthetic rating’ of a photo. I first ... -
SAT-TEL-COMP (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional Artist Networks through the Connectivity of (Technological) Telecommunication Devices and Human Dialogue
The history of SAT-TEL-COMP at Open Space (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) and COLLABORATORY as a curatorial basis which set the groundwork for a communications network between artists, engineers. As well, the creation ... -
Science/Fiction: Canadian Information Art in the 1970s
This paper proposes an original reading of Canadian artists’ evolving relationship to information technologies and changing concepts of “information” during the 1970s, as McLuhan’s media metaphysics entered a period of ... -
Scroll as Virtual Media: Kinetic Abstraction and Projection circa 1920
This paper considers the historical avant-garde’s use of scrolls to delineate an alternative history of experimental cinema. In 1919, Hans Richter, associated with the Bauhaus, experimented with scroll drawing titled ... -
Sensed Selves: The (expanded) Sensorium in Media Art History
In his late work Technologies of the Self, the French philosopher Michel Foucault famously described four “technologies” that train, produce and regulate modern selves. For Foucault, technology or “techné” involves forms ... -
Sensory Vantage Points: Examining Habitual addresses to Digital Media in NYC Public Spaces
When media technologies are introduced into public spaces, the human habitually address technology through visual and/or auditory interfaces. A brief genealogy of how digital media interfaces are designed, and ways that ... -
Shifting Sands: Sand as Medium in Israeli New Media Art
The proposed paper investigates, in a specifically Israeli context, the use of sand as a medium for projection of generative animation. Works by two Israeli media artists, Ronen Shaharabani and Shirley Shor, will serve as ... -
Sighting Technology in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
Not unlike the rest of the world, technological change has had farreaching effects on Latin America. During the early 20th Century, the impact of technology was on the social imaginary, nourishing artistic, narrative and ... -
Situating the Media Archaeology Lab: Research, Art and the Public
Media archaeology has not been confined to theoretical and archival excavations to old media and media art history. Increasingly we have witnessed the emergence of media archaeological labs where analysis of media objects ... -
Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized audience in Brazil
Skipping stages searches for parameters that clarify the current production in art and technology and the formation of a specific audience in Brazil. Parameters that can be found in the parallelism between the social-economic ... -
Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized audience in Brazil
Skipping stages searches for parameters that clarify the current production in art and technology and the formation of a specific audience in Brazil. Parameters that can be found in the parallelism between the social-economic ... -
Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts
Slow time is one of contemporary art's most persistent (although under-studied) modus operandi. It has been especially pivotal to the development of video art. In the 1970s, Nam June Paik claimed that video is essentially ... -
Slow-Scan TV Art; Revisited/Revived
This presentation will encompass Lichty’s research in the history of Slow Scan TV art and performance, a genre introduced at the first MAH conference in 2005. Over the past ten years, Lichty has acquired and learned ... -
Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution
This paper examines the history of social broadcasting and the experimental video art movement that brought about a radical departure from traditional, hierarchical forms of mainstream media and television. The concept of ... -
Software Art Has No History
(2007-11)In the 1970s, and in parallel to the increasing visibility of computer technologies in culture, the term software was employed as a cultural metaphor to indicate a shift away from an emphasis on the (hardware) object of ...