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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 ... -
Post-Guten(morgen)berg: Soundings for a North/South Atlas of Art and New Media Histories
A look at some of the ideas, concepts and theoretical models Rudolf Arnheim took up over the years to probe ongoing and emerging domains of visual experience, processes and technologies. Can his conceptual kit — made up ... -
Postdigital Pasts
As David Berry and Michael Dieter (2012) have described, postdigital refers not to life-after-digital but rather the ways in which computation has become ‘experiential, spatial and materialized; embedded and embodied’, ... -
Postimage: On the Future Evolution of the Image and its Theory
This paper is part of a research project that addresses the future evolution of the image taking into account the increasing accuracy and autonomy of computer and machine vision. Taking the case of so-called mixed swarm ... -
postvinyl
The history of audio-records, record players and DJs had its ups and downs during the last 6 decades. Vinyl records had their first appearances in the 1940ies, seemed to have gone in the 80ies and reappeared gloriously in ... -
Practices and Languages of Art
Recognition of artistic practices as academic research continues to provoke much debate. In exchange for their validation, higher education institutions demand the clear articulation of artistic research questions ... -
Practices: Curating as Research (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Virtual Volumes and Electric Choreographies Kinetic and Light Art in the David Bermant Collection’ by Christiane Paul; • ‘Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in Public ... -
Practices: Histories of the Studio Lab (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement’ by W. Patrick McCray; • ‘Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, an Australian artist between Art, ... -
Préservation et archéologie des média: importance de la rétro ingénierie dans la reconstruction archéologique d'œuvres d'art à composante technologique
La reconstruction d'œuvres d'art à composante technologique au plus bas niveau des matérialités représente les mêmes défis et controverses que la reconstruction de restes archéologiques ou de monuments historiques. Il ... -
Projection Studies
This paper aims at contrasting the traditional field of “screen and film studies” with an investigative approach inspired by practices of projection, more attentive to the heterogeneous character of media technology, and ...