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Histories of live meetings - case study: five conferences on computer-generated art and related theories in Zagreb, 1968 – 1978
Five international meetings of more than hundred artist and theoreticians of computer-based arts were held within the exhibition projects Tendencies 4 (1968 - 1969), Tendencies 5 (1973) and Tendencies 6 (1978) in Zagreb. ...
The Forgotten Pioneers of Creative Hacking and Social Networking– Introducing the Demoscene
During mid 1980s evolved a networked culture that brought together tens of thousands of teenagers within the computerized world: the demoscene. This culture revolved around the production, dissemination, and competition ...
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 ...
Erewhon: framing media utopia in the antipodes
Erewhon is a geographical location, a novel, and a fragment of our technological imaginary. Described
by Samuel Butler as somewhere between nowhere and elsewhere, Erewhon provides a framework for
understanding antipodean ...
RE:COPYing-IT-RIGHT AGAIN
RE:COPYing-IT-RIGHT AGAIN addresses art-science-technology connections in Media Art from Chicago during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Artists, including Phil Morton (founder of the Video Area at The School of the Art ...
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 ...