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Uncanny Realm – The Extension of The Natural
(Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts - BIO-CREATION AND PEACE (pp. 780–783). Manizales: Department of Visual Design, Universidad de Caldas, and ISEA International., 2017-06)Taking the uncanny valley concept by M. Mori (Mori 1970) as a starting point, the paper will investigate how this concept fits into experiments that are intertwining biological and technological matter. The uncanny valley ... -
Uncovering information systems in the work of Teresa Burga
Teresa Burga (Iquitos, 1935) has developed, since the sixties, a pioneering work in information-based arts. However, her work has only in the last decade been studied in depth from a perspective that has revalued her ... -
Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism
This audio-visual paper offers a Re-Trace and reboot of two disciplinary fields that some consider outdated and defunct, by proposing a bold aesthetic theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism. It argues that throughout the ... -
Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices
(2007-11)It is increasingly accepted that, alongside cybernetics, computer science, music and the visual arts, experimental performance practice is also essential for an understanding of past and present media arts history. After ... -
V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of Media Art
Since its early history in the beginning of the 1980s, V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, has documented its programs and activities, in an increasingly structured way, by means of photographs and video registrations. ... -
Video: Once Upon a Time There Was a Database…Database and Narrative from a Cognitive (...)
Once upon a time there was a database-Database and narrative from a cognitive (...) 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 ... -
Virtual Volumes and Electric Choreographies Kinetic and Light Art in the David Bermant Collection
This paper will will give an overview of the David Bermant Collection in Santa Ynez, California — which I researched during a residency in 2014 — and consider its holdings in the context of recent exhibitions such as ZERO ... -
Visual Digitality: Towards Another Understanding
Given the assumption that the way an image is put together affects how we see it, this paper will seek to explore how art, image, photography and painting can be talked about since the advent of digital painting, especially ... -
Vitalist technocratism in the times of materialist idealism on the philosophy of technology by Piotr Engelmeier in pre- and early Soviet Russia
(2007-11)The talk interprets the body of work by the philosopher-engineer Piotr Engelmeier dating from the 1910s-1920s. A few stories are tangled together here: a brief history of Russian philosophy of technology; an account of ... -
Weaving Strands: Research-creation practices in universities, cultural institutions and artist-run culture in Montreal
In this talk/performance, the presenters will explore researchcreation, a relatively new method of inquiry in Quebec and Canadian universities. They will discuss how researchcreation may be informed by multiple approaches ... -
What are “Centers for Media Art” Good For If You Can Buy a “Media System” for the Price of a Used Car? Or: ZKM and EMPAC as Institutions with Physical Spaces for Artistic Productions with Digital Tools
Germany was the last of the highly industrialized country, in which digital tools as an option in artistic fields were embraced by institutions. The change from mainframes to PCs and from open systems to commercially ... -
What Can the History of New Media Learn from History of Science/Science Studies? (Introduction to the Session)
As in the case of artists working in traditional media who have engaged science and technology, new media artists must be situated contextually in the "cultural field" (Kate Hayles) in which they have worked or are working. ... -
When "new media art" became the solution to endow cultural identity to its community? - the history of new media art in South Korea since 1980s
Since the beginning of Venice Biennale was to revitalize the city, many cultural events are required to devote the revitalization of a coutnry, or a cuty where they are held. In South Korea, there have been lots of "new ... -
When It Comes To History, Always Get A Second Opinion
Skawennati shares her experiences, projects and contributions in bringing an Indigenous perspective to the forefront of the histories of media arts and cyberculture. From CyberPowWow (1997-2004), the pioneering on-line ... -
Where Cybernetics Met the Counterculture: The Us Company
Since the late 1960s, historians have argued that in the early part of that decade, as artists embraced new technologies, art itself became "dematerialized." Where once painters and sculptors had crafted one-of-a-kind ...