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Nanoart: First Steps Beyond the Columns of Hercules
As in the last century, with all the “-isms” and other nouns and adjectives with which various artistic movements were described, both contemporaneously by the participants, and later by historians and critics, the term ... -
Nation as a Mode of Consumption
(Scottish Church College, Kolkata, 2006-09)Modernity is manifested and perceived in various ways, though contested in their meanings, in everyday life. Expansion of consumer culture is integral to the process of modernity in a typically defined location in the ... -
Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
(2007-11)The historic meeting of electrical engineer Billy Kluver and painter Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 symbolizes a larger technocultural convergence of the worlds of research-based applied sciences ... -
Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
(2007-11)The historic meeting of electrical engineer Billy Kluver and painter Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 symbolizes a larger technocultural convergence of the worlds of research-based applied sciences ... -
New media art in Lithuania
(Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute, 2007)This article strives to illustrate the main trends of Lithuanian digital art, to name the relevant artists and activists, and to distinguish applicable creative strategies as well as the most significant features of the ... -
New Media Curating: Sound as a Technological Medium
The paper presents the interdisciplinary intersections and impacts in between new media art and sound practices. Through the exploration of the formation and rise of interdisciplinary research fields, the paper presents ... -
New Media in an Adhocracy
(2005-10)In previous studies, I sketched a three-part typology of modern studio-laboratories as institutions committed to research and creation in new media. In this paper I extend and problematize the three-part categorization by ... -
Notebooks, raw film reels and ephemera as Research-creation (Process)
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 ... -
On A Critical History of Media Art in Japan (2014)
This article is based on the author’s recent publication, A Critical History of Media Art in Japan (Artes Publishing, Tokyo, 2014). The book examines continuity and/or discontinuity in the history of media art focusing ... -
On Adjacent Infrastructural Tactics for Urban Screens (Shanghai version)
This paper addresses what media art can do in a context (here, Shanghai) in which urban screens and related architectural facades seem ubiquitously present – nearly inescapable in some areas of the city – yet in which media ... -
On Cross Cultural Initiatives and Collaborative Practice
(2005-10)The presentation -based on two decades of personal experience-, is focused on cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaborations. Current case studies include the Aurora Public Feast at the Finnish Heureka Science Museum, ... -
On Scale and Fields: Artistic Practice and Agricultural Machines
This paper explores thematic parallels between artistic and agricultural practices in the postwar period to establish a link to media art and cultural practices that are currently emerging in urban agriculture. Industrial ... -
On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology -Toward the Cultural Evolution of Human-being
Reflection on the historical contribution of several key institutions in the world, which could have changed the art movement since 60s till now drastically, and about the insightful role of the key leaders who had deeply ... -
Once upon a time there was a database: Database and narrative from a cognitive point of view
(2005-10)If narration makes up a core element in how we perceive and understand the world, such as has been argued from various corners of the academic field within the last couple of decades, how should we then understand the ... -
Open Source Culture
Artists have always influenced and imitated one another, but in the 20th century various forms of appropriation, from collage to sampling, emerged as an alternative to originary creativity. Instead of making things entirely ... -
Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation
This paper discusses the complexity surrounding inter-cultural exchange, from a post-colonial, critical Indian perspective. For this, I consider my film practice, informed by discourses and thoughts I have engaged within ... -
Parlor of Futures: Tarot cards, Futures Techniques and Octave Obdurant's "Cosmographic Comparator"
We are performing a material media archeology investigations into the origins of our concept of innovation and future through the 16th century Tarot cards and divination techniques, which we combine and contrast with present ... -
“Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture” Revisited
The speaker’s 1999 report Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, observed a rising density of interconnections between the worlds of art, technology and science. Designating ... -
Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach
Since 1999, the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) of The Daniel Langlois Foundation is building a documentation collection on the history, artworks and practices associated with the electronic, digital and media ...