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Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad Zuse
The Z3 computer made by Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin is described, paying attention in detail to the facts and inspirations related with the use of punched film as a store medium in that machine. The text has several ...
Immediacy of Image – Image of Immediacy. Live Media Art in Japan between Tradition and Hypermodernity. An historical and contemporary View
In 1970, French philosopher Roland Barthes declared Japan as a model for a kind of system liberated from any (Western) signification-overload, at an important moment in time when art in the West as well as in the East began ...
“Your number is 96 – please be patient”. Modes of Liveness and Presence Investigated Through the Lens of Interactive Artworks
The notions of liveness and presence are essentially contested concepts, denoting human potentials/activities as well as system/media properties. Their ambivalence is due to the fact that they are used to emphasize ...
The Art of being novel: rethinking cartographies of personalisation
In a global period whereby the “personal” is no longer associated with people but with affective technologies (Shirky 2008; Lasén 2004), the old feminist adage of the “personal as political” takes on new dimensions of ...
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 ...
A-Life: the creation and development of new modes of realism
This paper considers art and Artificial Life vis-à-vis the development and creation of new modes of realism. A brief sketch of the current conditions that underpin much in Artificial Life provides an alternative framework ...
Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration
The use of scientific data to create artworks has always played an important part in the arts, and music has been no exception. The impact of developments such as electricity, the phonograph, the cassette recorder and the ...
Bush Video
Bush Video was a unique collaborative video operation running on an unconsciously anarchic model. It was the seminal organisation through which video in many of its forms was established in Australia. Established in 1973 ...
The Sonic Commons
The Sonic Commons is an examination of the formation of the contemporary urban soundscape, or the Sonic Commons and the social, economic and technological pressures that are transforming our shared aural spaces. The paper ...