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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 ...
The Stage as Organism: Liveness, Dynamics and Expression in Early Twentieth Century Scenography
The histories of liveness entwining theater and media technologies have traditionally emphasized the tension between the mediated (not real time) and the live (that which takes place in its moment of presence). These ...
Lifebox Immortality & How We Got There
A paper in two parts. After a brief introduction from an art historian from the far future, a contemporary (2009) author discusses a near-future exosomatic technology called the lifebox. Unlike the dreams of the “hard” AI ...
Transactional Art as a Form of Interactive Art
Interactive media, especially the internet, are often used in an economic context where interactions are actually transactions. We focus on artists who apply economic principles and coin those works as “transactional arts”. ...
Nanoart: First Steps Beyond the Columns of Hercules
As in the last century, with all the “-isms” and other nouns and adjectives with which various artistic movements were described, both contemporaneously by the participants, and later by historians and critics, the term ...