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Art, War, and Cambridge Cybernetics
(2007-11)
Cambridge, well known for the creation of the first full-scale operational stored-program computer EDSAC, is also important, but less well known, for the development of Cybernetic theory and the application of cross-disciplinary ...
African Digital Imaginaries
(2007-11)
In an environment where popular media forms are traveling across borders and cultures, Africa is often regarded as a colonized space, flooded with foreign media products that are eroding traditional values. However, taking ...
Art and science playing on the margins. On the discovery of photography in the 19th century Brazil.
(2007-11)
This paper examines photography as a particular case of a multiple discovery in
science and technology. It concerns an original photographic process developed during the 19th century Brazil simultaneously and independently ...
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 ...
At the Crossroads of Art, Technology and Education – a cross-disciplinary expert meeting to discuss responsive media art education culture in the 21C
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...