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Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s
Exhibitions as "Software” [The Jewish Museum, New York, 1970] and the "Tendencije" exhibitions [Zagreb, 1968/69/1973] proclaimed relations between computer generated or controlled artworks and specific artistic movements. ... -
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 ... -
Between Media and Art, or Media Art with and Against Art History
My talk will take up my earlier confrontation of Art History (in the form of Rosalind Krauss’s meditations on media art) and Media Studies (in the form of Lev Manovich’s historicization of new media in reference to various ... -
Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad Zuse
The Z3 computer made by Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin is described, paying attention in detail to the facts and inspirations related with the use of punched film as a store medium in that machine. The text has several ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Biofeedback and the arts: listening as experimental practice
(2005-10)Since the 1960's biofeedback has been incorporated into cognitive science practice with experimental medical and therapeutic research involving both animal and human subjects. Concurrently, feedback was an important model ... -
Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork
This paper asserts the existence of a long tradition of practice which exploits electronic and mechanical technologies for cultural purposes. It is a quintessentially interdisciplinary practice that pursues technical ... -
Bush Video
Bush Video was a unique collaborative video operation running on an unconsciously anarchic model. It was the seminal organisation through which video in many of its forms was established in Australia. Established in 1973 ... -
Can there be an ‘Art History’ in the South?
(2007-11)The rise of media art has largely been inclined to media rather than art, in its academic, often elitist too, terms. The mode of production as well as consumption of the contemporary media art penetrated into the ... -
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 ... -
CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality across High Speed Networks
Artists, researchers and scientists together can create a CAVE Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE) that can be shared between remote locations simultaneously. CAVE art collaborations are networked through Amsterdam, Linz, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...