Browsing 2. re:place 2007 by Title
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Can there be an ‘Art History’ in the South?
(2007-11)The rise of media art has largely been inclined to media rather than art, in its academic, often elitist too, terms. The mode of production as well as consumption of the contemporary media art penetrated into the ... -
‘Complexity-Uncanny’: Concepts and Methods in 20th century art
D'Arcy Thompson's 1917 On Growth and Form has had an unprecedented impact on modernism and the production of modernist discourses on form. The reception of Thompson's work in the context of the history of science, art and ... -
Connaïtre les médias d'Afrique subsaharienne:Problématiques, sources et ressources
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Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s
(2007-11)In 1969, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted the first Intermedia exhibition, Electrical Connection, featuring a broad range of works. With their geodesic domes, preoccupation with circuit schematics and "happening" presentation ... -
Death in Paris: How Mathematics Became an Art
(2007-11)In the early decades of the 19th century, the science of mathematics underwent a transformation that has shaped its course to this day. From a field that studies the physical world around us, it became the study of sublime ... -
Democracy and Art at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968
(2007-11)This paper investigates the way new media art affected the Venice Biennale in the late 60s. In particular it analyses how the developments of technology in art amplified the critical situation the Venice Biennale was facing ... -
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 ... -
Force and its Measure
Today, one often hears people talking about many different kinds of force having little or nothing in common with each other. The notion of “force” does not constitute a subject worth of interdisciplinary discussions between ... -
Force and its Measure
Today, one often hears people talking about many different kinds of force having little or nothing in common with each other. The notion of “force” does not constitute a subject worth of interdisciplinary discussions between ... -
From Life to Cognition: investigating the role of biology and neurology in new media arts practice
(2007-11)This paper offers a critical analysis of the relationship between new media arts practice and science occurring at two specific junctures: the migration of key concepts from the life sciences into digital arts during the ... -
Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of Classroom Collaboration
(2007-11)My paper charts the history of the Generative Systems, a groundbreaking instructional program founded in 1970 by Professor Sonia Landy Sheridan at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and traces its seminal impact ... -
Haptic Connections - On Hapticality and the History of Visual Media
(2007-11)This paper will discuss the relationship between media history and the senses, with special attention to the concept of the haptic. The coming of cinema as well as the coming of digital media some hundred years later seem ... -
Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State
(2007-11)In 1962 the Swedish Minister of Finances instigated a “Committee on National Taxation Organization” to deal with what has been called “the most extensive administrative revolution of the country ever in modern times.” This ... -
Iambic Tetrameter in the Service of Revolution
(Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006-11)Writing in his book „The Mind and Face of Bolshevism“ about the revolutionary poetry in the Soviet Russia at the early 1920ies a famous Austrian sociologist Rene Fueloep-Miller has mentioned one educational institution of ... -
Images médicales entre art et science
(De Boeck & Larcier, 2007)This paper is part of a still working in progress, which aims to investigate the interactions between art and scientific images. It introduces artworks from the Brazilian artist Monica Mansur and explores questions such ... -
Immersion as “Social Machine”- analysing the coupling Human-Machine in the industry of entertainment
(International Society for Presence Research, ISPR, http://www.temple.edu/ispr/ICA2003/Araujo.htm; ICA, www.icahdq.org, 2003-05-23)“Social Machine” is a term that appears in Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, capitalismus and schizophrenia, and in John Canny and Eric Paulos, Tele-embodiment and shattered presence: reconstructing the body for online ... -
Institutionalisation of Media Art in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socioeconomic Factors
(2007-11)The proposed paper reviews the process of institutionalisation of Media Art in Post-Soviet countries (primarily Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) in a period from the middle 80s to thepresent. It is focused on forms and principles ... -
Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the pro-Western Bias of Media History
(2007-11)Most media histories have been written from a Euro-American perspective: when considered at all, other parts of the world are usually pictured as passive recipients of innovations that have originated in the West, reflecting ...