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Haptic Connections - On Hapticality and the History of Visual Media
(2007-11)This paper will discuss the relationship between media history and the senses, with special attention to the concept of the haptic. The coming of cinema as well as the coming of digital media some hundred years later seem ... -
Harold Innis's ProtoMedia Archaeology
My presentation contributes to MAH by examining Harold Innis's unique 'civilizational' approach to media history in the context of contemporary debates around material culture. Innis's work which anticipated current ... -
Haunted profiles; social networking sites and the crisis of death
How do perceptions of death shift or alter in relation to newly emerging technologies? In this paper I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely online memorials using social networking sites, through the looking-glass ... -
Henry Cowell and Dr. and Mrs Dower’s “Tonal Therapy”
In 1922 the American modernist composer, Henry Cowell published his first single-authored piece of writing. Entitled “Tonal Therapy” it was published in The Temple Artisan, a periodical of the Theosophical community of ... -
Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of Early Electronic Art
This paper will address the absence of early electronic art from the historically evolving artistic canon. Looking specifically at work produced between 1970 and 1995 by Canadian artists, Doug Back, Catherine Richards, Tom ... -
High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?
High Art/Low Culture - the future of media art sciences? The gap between fine art and popular culture, ‚high art oeuvres' and ‚industrial media products' has been a point of discussion since Lesli Fiedler's canonical ... -
High Art/Low Culture – the Future of Media Art Sciences? (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?’ by Karin Bruns; • ‘Immersive and participative environments’ by Yara Rondon Guasque Araujo; • ‘Lowbrow, ... -
Histories of live meetings - case study: five conferences on computer-generated art and related theories in Zagreb, 1968 – 1978
Five international meetings of more than hundred artist and theoreticians of computer-based arts were held within the exhibition projects Tendencies 4 (1968 - 1969), Tendencies 5 (1973) and Tendencies 6 (1978) in Zagreb. ... -
History/practices of sound art in Serbia
Starting from the thesis that “history is a narrative rather than a discovery” (Munslow), in this paper I shall try to construct a narrative about Sound Art as an artistic category which could be incorporated under the ... -
Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic
Using Borges's essay on Coleridge's "Kublai Khan" as a metaphor for personal artistic evolution and the unfolding of media history, this essay investigates the trajectory of Hollis Frampton's theoretical and media work as ... -
Horror and the history of immersive media art
The horror genre has always played a role in the application and development of new media culture. From early examples of augmented reality effects such as the Pepper’s Ghost in the 1890’s or William Castle’s experimentations ... -
How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art
Artist physically attacked by protestors! Art works severely censured by art critics! Art curator’s career curtailed by the establishment! What kind of art could elicit such negative, indifferent or fearful response? This ... -
How do digital technologies affect the aesthetics of Japanese calligraphy art and culture?
In the recent decades, artists and researchers have shown an increased interest in applying new technologies to traditional arts in Japan, especially in the field of calligraphy art, painting, and the Zen culture. In one ... -
Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State
(2007-11)In 1962 the Swedish Minister of Finances instigated a “Committee on National Taxation Organization” to deal with what has been called “the most extensive administrative revolution of the country ever in modern times.” This ... -
Hybrid ecologies on the anthropocene: Mar Menor Research
ISBE: Mar Menor Research is a media art project at the intersection of ecology, technology and arts. It aproaches the enviromental landscape of Mar Menor lagoon (Spain), a singular ecosystem on crisis, a territory where ... -
Iambic Tetrameter in the Service of Revolution
(Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006-11)Writing in his book „The Mind and Face of Bolshevism“ about the revolutionary poetry in the Soviet Russia at the early 1920ies a famous Austrian sociologist Rene Fueloep-Miller has mentioned one educational institution of ... -
Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History
There’s little argument that the history of ‘media art’ is not limited to the mere deployment of specific implementations. To formulate media histories as a mere evolution of an apparatus linked with progressive notions ...