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Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories
This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 70s and 80s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial ...
Sensed Selves: The (expanded) Sensorium in Media Art History
In his late work Technologies of the Self, the French philosopher Michel Foucault famously described four “technologies” that train, produce and regulate modern selves. For Foucault, technology or “techné” involves forms ...
Return of operativity: Prolegomena to a grand narrative of media in deep time
When in recent decades extended temporal scales have entered media history, including MediaArtHistories, this has mostly implied the subversion of temporal coherence and evolutionary logic (cp. Huhtamo’s, Ernst’s and others’ ...
Scroll as Virtual Media: Kinetic Abstraction and Projection circa 1920
This paper considers the historical avant-garde’s use of scrolls to delineate an alternative history of experimental cinema. In 1919, Hans Richter, associated with the Bauhaus, experimented with scroll drawing titled ...
Stargazing and the "Data Sublime"
This paper explores the codependency between the explosion of information technology and human imagination, focusing specifically on stargazing and celestial imaging. Thanks to rapid technological advent in the 20th century, ...
Shifting Sands: Sand as Medium in Israeli New Media Art
The proposed paper investigates, in a specifically Israeli context, the use of sand as a medium for projection of generative animation. Works by two Israeli media artists, Ronen Shaharabani and Shirley Shor, will serve as ...
The Social Lives Of Online Art
The pioneering artworks on the World Wide Web (created in the nineties) can now be approached with some historical distance. How are these artworks remembered over time? This research critically examines online artworks ...
Theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
There exists a copious literature on social media, including visual-driven ones like Instagram. Researchers, however, only use Instagram as a database to retrieve visual or cultural data to study their subjects of interest. ...
Yima: A Proposition for Archiving Cultural Heritage Through Objects Rather Than Human Subjectivity
This paper introduces the Yima Project, initiated by FH Salzburg, V2 and marart.org, that has the ambitious aim of de-anthropocentralising subjective histories for objective futures, by showing events through objects, ...
Training in the complex adaptive systems of media art: A critique of the mythologies of art and interdisciplinary learning in higher ed
Based on a meta-study into the mythologies and ideological commonplaces that have shaped the pedagogies and curricular structures for training media artist at the university (a critical discourse analysis of 102 articles, ...