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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 It argues that, in appropriating objects once serving a now outdated technology to imagine fictitious future technological ... -
Fields - Manifesting the Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media
Accordingly to several voices, we have entered the post-media age (Krauss 1999, Guattari 1996, Manovich 2000, Weibel 2005, Quaranta 2010). Today, there is no anymore single media dominating in contemporary digital art ... -
Filming Simondon: Cultural Hysteresis and Technological Humanism
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 ... -
Force and its Measure
Today, one often hears people talking about many different kinds of force having little or nothing in common with each other. The notion of “force” does not constitute a subject worth of interdisciplinary discussions between ... -
Force and its Measure
Today, one often hears people talking about many different kinds of force having little or nothing in common with each other. The notion of “force” does not constitute a subject worth of interdisciplinary discussions between ... -
Fotoformas, 1949-1951: Photography and Algorithmic Devices, An Early Interaction.
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 ... -
Franceso Mariotti: in pursuit of a hybrid ideal through art, media and nature
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 ... -
FROM BITS TO PAPER: A short history of the aesthetics of rematerialization
This article is inspired by From bits to Paper, a group exhibition I have curated at Le Shadok, a center for arts and digital creation in Strasbourg, from the 8th Mars to the 5th June 2016. The exhibition addressed the ... -
From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Museum Websites
Internet communications technologies change culture and subsequently how a museum represents itself. This is particularly so as national musea websites transform how we view and understand the cultural artifacts they house. ... -
From Life to Cognition: investigating the role of biology and neurology in new media arts practice
(2007-11)This paper offers a critical analysis of the relationship between new media arts practice and science occurring at two specific junctures: the migration of key concepts from the life sciences into digital arts during the ... -
From Net Art to Post-Internet Art: The Cyclical Nature of Art Movements
It makes sense to look back at the experience of net art in the 1990s. This was an era of innocence, eagerness and heroes of a kind, when net art works as art were brand new. In the 1990s, art had to be brought to the ... -
From Nothingness to Technology, What Do We Read Ourselves in New Media
(2005-10)From the early beginning of western art history, art and technology are inseparable. The original meaning of the word "techne" in ancient Greek means "art" and "craft". The term "technology", was therefore a discourse on ... -
From Painting to Coding: The Art of Harold Cohen
This paper offers an analytical and critical survey of the oeuvre of British artist Harold Cohen (1928-2016) who was a pioneer of computer art and the development of an autonomous media that would be equivalent to his own ... -
From Scenography to Planetary Network
(2005-10)Spectacular and technological, between the historic Avant-Garde and Post-Modernity, Jacques Polieri crosses and deconstructs data. Since the scenographic design of his shows is more complex than simply decorating space, ... -
From Soft Sculpture to Soft Robotics: Retracing a Physical Aesthetics of Bio-Morphic Softness
Soft robotics has in the past decade emerged as a growing subfield of technical robotics research, distinguishable by its bio-inspired design strategies, interest in morphological computation, and interdisciplinary combination ... -
From the Digital to the Post-Digital – the Photographic Image
Digital technologies have transformed the photographic medium from being representational to performative. In this way, they introduced a new kind of affinity between the visual image and the world. This paper will suggest ...