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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 ... -
Philosophizing in Translation: Vilém Flusser’s Brazilian Writings of the 1960s
(2007-11)Of the thirty-two years the original and controversial philosopher Vilém Flusser lived in Brazil—from 1940 to 1972 when he left the country to lead a truly nomadic international life of lectures and publications—the 1960s ... -
Phytodynamics and Plant Difference
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Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation
Recently, the philosopher Galen Strawson suggested that there has been an over-emphais on narrative in the construction of self, at the expense of non-narrative constructions – evident in writers such as Montaigne, Proust ... -
Pink Skies and Green Screens: Readymade Colors and Chroma Keyed Moods in Video Art Since 2010
This paper examines the mood enhancing qualities of two chromatic tropes that recur with striking frequency in video art from the present decade: pink skies and green-screens. Featured in works by artists such as Victoria ... -
Pioneering Experiences in Art, Science and Technology in Latin America + Interdisciplinary Site (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Fotoformas, 1949-1951: Photography and Algorithmic Devices, An Early Interaction’ by Andrés Burbano; • ‘Franceso Mariotti: in pursuit of a hybrid ideal through art, ... -
Pop/Mass/Society (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Technology as Art: ‘Device Art’ as a New Japanese Paradigm’ by Machiko Kusahara; • ‘Archiving of Computer Games’ by Andreas Lange; • ‘Computer Games: Art in the ... -
Post-digital Circulationism. On- and Offline Intermedia Discourse in Contemporary Art and Scholarship
The post-digital phenomenon of circulationism (Hito Steyerl), the wandering of images and data across media and through global networks, marks a decisive change compared to prior practices of visual culture. In today’s ... -
Post-digital paradigm shift: from Narcissus to Perseus
A common approach to self-portraits is via paradigm (and theory) of Narcissism. Still, a shift funeral, hospital or roof selfies introduce into visuals of our time is; they describe the world, not as a mere individual set ...