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Early Video Art as Private Performance
The adoption of video by artists responded to the affordance of immediacy and portability for the making of a motion picture recording. In the early 1970s in England, the potential of this facility was as novel as it was ... -
Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration
The use of scientific data to create artworks has always played an important part in the arts, and music has been no exception. The impact of developments such as electricity, the phonograph, the cassette recorder and the ... -
Ecological intimacy and unmanned photography: drones, GoPros, and satellites
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first complete colour photograph of the Earth. The American ATS-III weather satellite was tasked with transmitting images for weather forecasters to look for extreme events and learn ... -
Ectogenesis and Mother as Machine
(2005-10)The paper addresses the often neglected nexus between mother and machine, through the histories of the ideas of "ectogenesis" and "cybernetic organism". A discussion of Smith-Windsor's maternal experience as a cyborg-mother ... -
Edmund Carpenter’s Experiments across Visual Anthropology and Critical Media Pedagogies
This presentation explores the neglected contributions of the unorthodox cultural anthropologist Edmund Carpenter (19222011) to crossdisciplinary media and communication studies. Carpenter worked in CBC radio, film, ... -
Electronic Disturbance Theater, Floating Point Unit, Fakeshop
This paper looks at several collectives of artists and hacktivists who, during the early 1990’s in New York City, used new media and web-based technologies to built strategies of critique and resistance to the digital ... -
Electronic Oscillography in Early 1950s Experimental Film
The proposed paper focuses on the historical genealogies of contemporary electronic imaging, particularly on the appropriated use of a specific electro-engineering technique within early 1950s experimental film making. ... -
End Time: Apocalyptic Systems in Media Art and Design
In contemporary art, design, and architecture, generative, recombinatory or autopoetic aesthetics often come not from a space of openended possibility, but of hope against specific perceived crises or catastrophes. In ... -
Entendre la guerre, éprouver le temps : l’expérience sonore dans Starry Night (2006) de Mazen Kerbaj
Lors d’une conférence prononcée à Montréal (FTA, 2014), les artistes Rabih Mroué et Lina Saneh ont témoigné du désenchantement lié à l’impossibilité de se projeter dans le futur au cours de la guerre civile libanaise ... -
Erewhon: framing media utopia in the antipodes
Erewhon is a geographical location, a novel, and a fragment of our technological imaginary. Described by Samuel Butler as somewhere between nowhere and elsewhere, Erewhon provides a framework for understanding antipodean ... -
Establishing Established: Reversed Remediation in Broersen and Lukács’ ‘Establishing Eden’
Artists Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács, reveal the way the New Zealand landscape is appropriated by Hollywood movies such as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit.’ In Establishing Eden (2016), the viewer becomes ... -
Ethico-onto-epistemologies of Media Art: A case study of the “Protocol for Interdisciplinary Research” project
As all steps of Art’s value chain get transformed by the ever-challenging practices of Media Arts and other forms as Art and Science intersections, and while agents and Institutions are adapting to the on-going transformation ... -
Exchanging Information: metaphors of computation in neuroscience, genetics and new media art
(Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney, Australia, 2006)This paper argues that a common element of language exists between art and science. However, this element does not assist transparent communication between the two fields, as it is primarily metaphor that is the shared ... -
Executable Cinema: demos, screensavers and videogames as audiovisual formats
The digitisation of the multilayered cinematographic apparatus turns the cinematographic image into an extension of the projecting system, making the movie impossible to be separated from the rendering mechanism in both ... -
Exhibition as Lab. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048, Documenta 13
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 ... -
Facebook’s MPK20 Headquarters by Frank Gehry
Facebook engaged renowned architect Frank Gehry for the design of a new headquarter building in Silicon Valley in 2012 that was completed in 2015. The 40,000 sqm large office building called MPK20 (short for Menlo Park ... -
Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement
A common theme found in the hybrid practices of the 1960sera art & technology movement is practitioners’ engagement with industry and the marketplace. This talk explores facets of this interaction. My focus is the pursuit ... -
Feasibility and Failure. Previously: Mechanography, Film and Education
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 ... -
Fictitious Future Pasts? Artists reflecting the transhistorical entanglements of telecommunication infrastructures, (post-)colonial trading, and geopolitics
This paper discusses the installation Malleable Regress (Arctic) by Dutch artists Femke Herregraven. It argues that, in appropriating objects once serving a now outdated technology to imagine fictitious future technological ...