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Collecting, Preserving and Archiving the Media Arts (Introduction to the Plenary Session)
Collections grow because of different influences such as art dealers, the art market, curators and currents in the international contemporary art scene. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media ... -
Coming To Our Senses: A Report on the Sensory Turn in Curatorial and Media Art Practice
This paper begins by charting the emergence of sensory studies as an autonomous field and method of inquiry. Its genesis is traced to the sensory turn in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, which gave ... -
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 ... -
‘Complexity-Uncanny’: Concepts and Methods in 20th century art
D'Arcy Thompson's 1917 On Growth and Form has had an unprecedented impact on modernism and the production of modernist discourses on form. The reception of Thompson's work in the context of the history of science, art and ... -
Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical Examination of the "The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" and the Incorporation of "The Argument from Human Creativity"
This talk critically examines two theoretical proposals with respect to contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Aesthetics - The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency and Explanation” and what I refer to as “The Argument from ... -
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 ... -
Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century
The nature of art is rarely theorized according to its media, although people commonly define painting and sculptures as art, and "new media" references an elusive, ever-changing "media" as critical to defining its nature ... -
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 ... -
Connaïtre les médias d'Afrique subsaharienne:Problématiques, sources et ressources
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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 ... -
Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s
(2007-11)In 1969, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted the first Intermedia exhibition, Electrical Connection, featuring a broad range of works. With their geodesic domes, preoccupation with circuit schematics and "happening" presentation ... -
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 ... -
Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?
Musicians remixing each other, programmers hacking together an open code project, and activists organizing grass-roots campaigns depend on easy access to each other's time and labor. While networked creativity usually ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cross Culture – Global Art (Introduction to the Plenary Session)
The panels in Cross-Culture--Global Art provide an opportunity to examine cross-cultural influences, the global and the local. New media histories include dramatically different influences and parallels to new media art. ... -
Cross-Culture – Global Art (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Cross Culture – Global Art’ by Sara Diamond; • ‘CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo’s Ghosting’ by Sheila Petty; • ‘From Cybercolonialism ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Introduction to the Session)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very intense—coming from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this pressure has been around for a very long time. So, why don’t we just strive for excellence ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Events of Significance’ by Frieder Nake; • ‘Is New Media New?’ by Ron Burnett; • ‘Transculturation and New Media History’ by Dot Tuer; • ‘Grounded Materialities: ...