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The Vasulka Chamber and Media Art in Iceland
In October 2014 the Vasulka Chamber opened at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. The “chamber” is founded on a donation from the video art pioneers, Steina and Woody Vasulka, both Icelandic citizens that have ... -
The Web Biennial Project: Developing Distributed, Real-time, Multimedia Presentation Technologies to Develop Independent, Open, Collaborative, Exhibition Models.
(2005-10)The Web Biennial (WB) is a large scale, non-national, bi-annual contemporary art exhibition created exclusively for the World Wide Web (W.W.W). Both of the Web Biennial’s in 2003 and 2005 has been announced, produced, ... -
The World, Another 24 Hours: Practice-Based Research and the works of Robert Adrian X & Bill Bartlett
In 1982, Robert Adrian X, Bill Bartlett, and a host of artists staged a worldwide telecommunications performance entitled “The World in 24 Hours” «Die Welt in 24 Stunden». In it,16 different timezones connected to the Ars ... -
Theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
There exists a copious literature on social media, including visual-driven ones like Instagram. Researchers, however, only use Instagram as a database to retrieve visual or cultural data to study their subjects of interest. ... -
Topology the historiography of interactivity: Lygia Clark’s and Gabriel Orozco’s ‘endless sculptures’
The historiographic consequences of Lygia Clark's work in relation of the concept of interactivity is re-examined through a novel classification taking into account the notion of a 'topological' sculpture. -
Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices
This presentation will briefly outline the parameters and cultural logic of a relational approach to the history of media and some practices that might be based on it. -
Toward Greenness Studies: Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings
This paper demonstrates the urgent need for interdisciplinary greenness studies that engage philosophy, art, art history, science and technology studies, the natural and the medical sciences, in order to fruitfully critique ... -
Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art
The development and use of science and technology by artists always has been, and always will be, an integral part of the art-making process. Nonetheless, the canon of western art history has not placed sufficient emphasis ... -
Towards an alternative history of Sound Art and Electronic Music: Carmen Barradas and Jaqueline Nova (1888-1975).
This paper addresses a critical gap in the global histories of media arts by investigating the life and work of two Latin American female composers whose career paths traversed well known global networks of music and ... -
Tracing the Dynabook: A Historiograph
(2005-10)In 1970, Alan Kay began a project at Xerox' Palo Alto Research Center that would have an unparalleled impact on the media landscape of the 21st century; he set out to invent personal computing. Kay's contributions are, in ... -
Training in the complex adaptive systems of media art: A critique of the mythologies of art and interdisciplinary learning in higher ed
Based on a meta-study into the mythologies and ideological commonplaces that have shaped the pedagogies and curricular structures for training media artist at the university (a critical discourse analysis of 102 articles, ... -
Transactional Art as a Form of Interactive Art
Interactive media, especially the internet, are often used in an economic context where interactions are actually transactions. We focus on artists who apply economic principles and coin those works as “transactional arts”. ... -
Transculturation and New Media History
This paper considers the application of the post-colonial concepts of hybridity and transculturation to the theorization of new media art as a dynamic site of exchange, in which the collision of simulation and the primacy ... -
Transdisciplinary experimentation and ontological change: an ethnography of art-science
How can we distinguish between the prevalent modes of interdisciplinary practice? And what distinctive orientations govern these practices? Barry and Born (Interdisciplinarity, 2013) identify three modes of interdisciplinary ... -
Uncanny Realm – The Extension of The Natural
(Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts - BIO-CREATION AND PEACE (pp. 780–783). Manizales: Department of Visual Design, Universidad de Caldas, and ISEA International., 2017-06)Taking the uncanny valley concept by M. Mori (Mori 1970) as a starting point, the paper will investigate how this concept fits into experiments that are intertwining biological and technological matter. The uncanny valley ... -
Uncovering information systems in the work of Teresa Burga
Teresa Burga (Iquitos, 1935) has developed, since the sixties, a pioneering work in information-based arts. However, her work has only in the last decade been studied in depth from a perspective that has revalued her ... -
Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism
This audio-visual paper offers a Re-Trace and reboot of two disciplinary fields that some consider outdated and defunct, by proposing a bold aesthetic theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism. It argues that throughout the ... -
Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices
(2007-11)It is increasingly accepted that, alongside cybernetics, computer science, music and the visual arts, experimental performance practice is also essential for an understanding of past and present media arts history. After ...