Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s
Exhibitions as "Software” [The Jewish Museum, New York, 1970] and the "Tendencije" exhibitions [Zagreb, 1968/69/1973] proclaimed relations between computer generated or controlled artworks and specific artistic movements. ... -
Between Media and Art, or Media Art with and Against Art History
My talk will take up my earlier confrontation of Art History (in the form of Rosalind Krauss’s meditations on media art) and Media Studies (in the form of Lev Manovich’s historicization of new media in reference to various ... -
Biofeedback and the arts: listening as experimental practice
(2005-10)Since the 1960's biofeedback has been incorporated into cognitive science practice with experimental medical and therapeutic research involving both animal and human subjects. Concurrently, feedback was an important model ... -
Bridging Two Cultures: Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the Artist-Inventor and the Machine Artwork
This paper asserts the existence of a long tradition of practice which exploits electronic and mechanical technologies for cultural purposes. It is a quintessentially interdisciplinary practice that pursues technical ... -
CAVEs Projecting Imagination into Reality across High Speed Networks
Artists, researchers and scientists together can create a CAVE Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE) that can be shared between remote locations simultaneously. CAVE art collaborations are networked through Amsterdam, Linz, ... -
Collecting, Preserving and Archiving the Media Arts (Introduction to the Plenary Session)
Collections grow because of different influences such as art dealers, the art market, curators and currents in the international contemporary art scene. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media ... -
Computation, Aesthetics, and Representation: A Critical Examination of the "The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency & Explanation" and the Incorporation of "The Argument from Human Creativity"
This talk critically examines two theoretical proposals with respect to contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Aesthetics - The Thesis of Computational Sufficiency and Explanation” and what I refer to as “The Argument from ... -
Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century
The nature of art is rarely theorized according to its media, although people commonly define painting and sculptures as art, and "new media" references an elusive, ever-changing "media" as critical to defining its nature ... -
Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?
Musicians remixing each other, programmers hacking together an open code project, and activists organizing grass-roots campaigns depend on easy access to each other's time and labor. While networked creativity usually ... -
Cross Culture – Global Art (Introduction to the Plenary Session)
The panels in Cross-Culture--Global Art provide an opportunity to examine cross-cultural influences, the global and the local. New media histories include dramatically different influences and parallels to new media art. ... -
Cross-Culture – Global Art (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Cross Culture – Global Art’ by Sara Diamond; • ‘CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo’s Ghosting’ by Sheila Petty; • ‘From Cybercolonialism ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Introduction to the Session)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very intense—coming from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this pressure has been around for a very long time. So, why don’t we just strive for excellence ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Events of Significance’ by Frieder Nake; • ‘Is New Media New?’ by Ron Burnett; • ‘Transculturation and New Media History’ by Dot Tuer; • ‘Grounded Materialities: ... -
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo's Ghosting
In debates concerning the underpinnings of cybertheory, the issue of race has become increasingly contentious. As C. Fusco argues, the "rather euphemistic discourse about the post-human era" has, not surprisingly, ... -
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in Roshini Kempadoo’s Ghosting
(2005-10)In debates concerning the underpinnings of cybertheory, the issue of race has become increasingly contentious. As C. Fusco argues, the "rather euphemistic discourse about the post-human era" has, not surprisingly, ... -
Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation ... -
Database/New Scientific Tools (Introduction to the Session)
Accessing and browsing the immense amount of data produced by individuals, institutions, and archives has become a key question to our information society. In which way can new scientific tools of structuring and visualizing ...