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Media Art in Pakistan - Not just another "in your face" advertisement campaign!
(2005-10)In the last few years Pakistani city dwellers have witnessed a series of audio visual explosions. Along with towering billboards obstructing the city skyline and distracting mobile phones that ring in public spaces, a ... -
Projection: Vanishing and Becoming
(2005-10)In Pliny's account of the origins of painting, projected light is the medium traced by the maid of Corinth. In Leroi-Gourhan's account's of palaeolithic art, projection plays a key role in the definition of hands as ... -
Media Art: Hybridization and Autonomy
(2005-10)In order to replace Media Art in its intercultural and historical context, the author attempts to define what characterizes it, beyond the sometimes great differences of its expressions. And what characterizes it is ... -
A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and Variable Media Art
(2005-10)This talk proposes a new approach to conceptualizing digital and media art forms. This theoretical approach will be explored through issues raised in the process of creating a formal declarative model for digital and media ... -
Tracing the Dynabook: A Historiograph
(2005-10)In 1970, Alan Kay began a project at Xerox' Palo Alto Research Center that would have an unparalleled impact on the media landscape of the 21st century; he set out to invent personal computing. Kay's contributions are, in ... -
Biofeedback and the arts: listening as experimental practice
(2005-10)Since the 1960's biofeedback has been incorporated into cognitive science practice with experimental medical and therapeutic research involving both animal and human subjects. Concurrently, feedback was an important model ... -
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, ... -
Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception
(2005-10)Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception Avant-garde cultures of the 1920s, revolving around then-new media, envisioned the fusion of art and technology as a decisive step in the shaping ... -
Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath
(2005-10)The creative role of artists working with technology is slowly becoming recognized. The impact of scientists who experiment with art is less visible even in the histories of technological art (Popper, Davies, Lovejoy, ... -
Immersive and participative environments
(2005-10)Immersive and participative environments in this text are spaces which use computing systems to promote a state of perceptive illusion and which incite the visitor to participation stimulating and impressing sensory ... -
Image, Process, Performance, Machine. Aspects of a Machinic Aesthetics
(2005-10)For many centuries, machines have influenced the way we construct, read and understand the world. Such mediated approaches to the world have been further dramatised by digital apparatuses. They abstract the visible as well ... -
Lowbrow, high art: Why Big Fine Art doesn't understand interactivity
(2005-10)Interactivity and playfulness are rarely exalted in the conservative institutions, or Big Fine Art, either because it they signify a lack of serious comment or because these approaches are populist, which Big Fine Art ... -
Media Art Sciences & Feminist Theories: New Alliances?
(2005-10)The old and odd discussion concerning High Art versus Low Culture might be still alive in mainstream art history as well as in an advanced media art history and/or media art sciences. I do not want to force this issue ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Demise of the Identical Architectural Standardization in the Age of Digital Reproducibility
(2005-10)The theory of non-standard architecture is the latest avatar to date of the digital revolution in architecture, now early in its second decade. In its simplest technical definition, non standard seriality means the mass ... -
The Reception and Rejection of Art and Technology: Exclusions and Revulsions
(2005-10)The development and use of science and technology by artists always has been, and always will be, an integral part of the art-making process. Nonetheless, the canon of western art history has not placed sufficient emphasis ... -
The Web Biennial Project: Developing Distributed, Real-time, Multimedia Presentation Technologies to Develop Independent, Open, Collaborative, Exhibition Models.
(2005-10)The Web Biennial (WB) is a large scale, non-national, bi-annual contemporary art exhibition created exclusively for the World Wide Web (W.W.W). Both of the Web Biennial’s in 2003 and 2005 has been announced, produced, ... -
Exchanging Information: metaphors of computation in neuroscience, genetics and new media art
(Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney, Australia, 2006)This paper argues that a common element of language exists between art and science. However, this element does not assist transparent communication between the two fields, as it is primarily metaphor that is the shared ...