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Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
(2007-11)
The historic meeting of electrical engineer Billy Kluver and painter Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 symbolizes a larger technocultural convergence of the worlds of research-based applied sciences ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Intermedial Theatre: ± Technology
(University of Toronto Press, 2007)
Reflections on the origin of theatre as a technological art form and the possibility of rethinking theatre through the paradigms of media and materialities.
New media art in Lithuania
(Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute, 2007)
This article strives to illustrate the main trends of Lithuanian digital art, to name the relevant artists and activists, and to distinguish applicable creative strategies as well as the most significant features of the ...