Browsing 2. re:place 2007 by Title
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Revolution of the Ear?
(Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005)How do acoustic dealings with machines change people’s conception of themselves? This essay presents the context of the media shift from image to sound using as an example the poetic theory of Charles Olson and relates ... -
Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized audience in Brazil
Skipping stages searches for parameters that clarify the current production in art and technology and the formation of a specific audience in Brazil. Parameters that can be found in the parallelism between the social-economic ... -
Software Art Has No History
(2007-11)In the 1970s, and in parallel to the increasing visibility of computer technologies in culture, the term software was employed as a cultural metaphor to indicate a shift away from an emphasis on the (hardware) object of ... -
Telefagia, Esquizolinguagens e Libidoeconomia: as metáforas aglutinantes das teleperformances do Perforum Desterro
(ANPAP, 2007)Telephagy as a metaphor is the adventure of recognizing oneself as someone who appropriates the other’s model and puts it as a dysfunction. It updates anthropophagy as the esthetics of regression in a period characterized ... -
Telephagy, Schizolanguages and Libidoeconomy: metaphors that agglutinate the teleperformances of Perforum Desterro.
Telephagy as a metaphor is the adventure of recognizing oneself as someone who appropriates the other’s model and puts it as a dysfunction. It updates anthropophagy as the esthetics of regression in a period characterized ... -
The Art of Installation
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The avant-garde in the rear view mirror
(2007-11)The paper discusses a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-) Yugoslavia and Russia. The reasons for this paradigm shift can ... -
The Haptic Transfer and the Travels of the Abstract Line: Embodied perception from classical Islam to modern Europe
(Löcker Verlag (Vienna), 2007)The major formal elements of Western modernism, the haptic image and abstract line (see Deleuze and Guattari 1987), arrived to the West in considerable part through the influence of Islamic art. The occurrence of these ... -
The Inverted Eye: A Transdisciplinary Gaze into the Dysfunctional Mind
Rene Descartes, when writing on optics and consciousness, (La Dioptrique 1637) instructed the reader to take a dead eye from a recently deceased body and use the eye as the lens for a camera obscura. In his misguided search ... -
The media perspective in the study of scientific abstraction
(2007-11)What I have chosen to refer to as the "media perspective" is a way of looking at science, its history and its philosophy which has been successfully employed in a number of recent studies. In these works, the term “medium” ... -
Topology the historiography of interactivity: Lygia Clark’s and Gabriel Orozco’s ‘endless sculptures’
The historiographic consequences of Lygia Clark's work in relation of the concept of interactivity is re-examined through a novel classification taking into account the notion of a 'topological' sculpture. -
Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices
(2007-11)It is increasingly accepted that, alongside cybernetics, computer science, music and the visual arts, experimental performance practice is also essential for an understanding of past and present media arts history. After ... -
Video: Once Upon a Time There Was a Database…Database and Narrative from a Cognitive (...)
Once upon a time there was a database-Database and narrative from a cognitive (...) If narration makes up a core element in how we perceive and understand the world, such as has been argued from various corners of the ... -
Vitalist technocratism in the times of materialist idealism on the philosophy of technology by Piotr Engelmeier in pre- and early Soviet Russia
(2007-11)The talk interprets the body of work by the philosopher-engineer Piotr Engelmeier dating from the 1910s-1920s. A few stories are tangled together here: a brief history of Russian philosophy of technology; an account of ...