Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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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 ... -
Database/New Scientific Tools (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘“Media Art Net”: Database and Context’ by Rudolf Frieling; • ‘Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation’ by Christian Berndt; • ‘V2_'s ... -
Dialogue: Assimilation: Subversion - Contemporary New Media Native Art in Canada
(2005-10)How is Western technology incorporated in the artistic discourse of non Western cultures? In 1992, BC Native artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun presented a virtual reality installation Inherent Rights, Vision Rights at the ... -
Digital Analysis of Structure and Form
(2005-10)The use of digital technologies can allow for an extended and enhanced understanding of art and architecture. The logical and parametric encoding used in data description languages can enable us to characterize relationship ... -
Digital computer art: A view from art history into the early beginnings
(2005-10)In 1965 Max Bense published the 'Aesthetica'. Referring to David Birkoff's mathematical aesthetics, Claude Shannons Information theory and Norbert Wieners Cybernetics, Bense developed a new aesthetic based on strict science. ... -
Ectogenesis and Mother as Machine
(2005-10)The paper addresses the often neglected nexus between mother and machine, through the histories of the ideas of "ectogenesis" and "cybernetic organism". A discussion of Smith-Windsor's maternal experience as a cyborg-mother ... -
From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Museum Websites
Internet communications technologies change culture and subsequently how a museum represents itself. This is particularly so as national musea websites transform how we view and understand the cultural artifacts they house. ... -
From Nothingness to Technology, What Do We Read Ourselves in New Media
(2005-10)From the early beginning of western art history, art and technology are inseparable. The original meaning of the word "techne" in ancient Greek means "art" and "craft". The term "technology", was therefore a discourse on ... -
From Scenography to Planetary Network
(2005-10)Spectacular and technological, between the historic Avant-Garde and Post-Modernity, Jacques Polieri crosses and deconstructs data. Since the scenographic design of his shows is more complex than simply decorating space, ... -
Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception
(2005-10)Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception Avant-garde cultures of the 1920s, revolving around then-new media, envisioned the fusion of art and technology as a decisive step in the shaping ... -
Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath
(2005-10)The creative role of artists working with technology is slowly becoming recognized. The impact of scientists who experiment with art is less visible even in the histories of technological art (Popper, Davies, Lovejoy, ... -
Grounded Materialities: Who Isn't Interdisciplinary?
My intervention will make the case that interdisciplinary has become a meaningless context given the broad dispersion of cultural theory into all activity, the inevitably historical character of all work, and the inescapable, ... -
Hey, Look at Me! Thoughts on the Canonical Exclusion of Early Electronic Art
This paper will address the absence of early electronic art from the historically evolving artistic canon. Looking specifically at work produced between 1970 and 1995 by Canadian artists, Doug Back, Catherine Richards, Tom ... -
High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?
High Art/Low Culture - the future of media art sciences? The gap between fine art and popular culture, ‚high art oeuvres' and ‚industrial media products' has been a point of discussion since Lesli Fiedler's canonical ... -
High Art/Low Culture – the Future of Media Art Sciences? (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?’ by Karin Bruns; • ‘Immersive and participative environments’ by Yara Rondon Guasque Araujo; • ‘Lowbrow, ... -
Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic
Using Borges's essay on Coleridge's "Kublai Khan" as a metaphor for personal artistic evolution and the unfolding of media history, this essay investigates the trajectory of Hollis Frampton's theoretical and media work as ... -
How Anti-Computer Sentiment Shaped Early Computer Art
Artist physically attacked by protestors! Art works severely censured by art critics! Art curator’s career curtailed by the establishment! What kind of art could elicit such negative, indifferent or fearful response? This ... -
Idiosyncratic Archaeologies: Realigning Media History
There’s little argument that the history of ‘media art’ is not limited to the mere deployment of specific implementations. To formulate media histories as a mere evolution of an apparatus linked with progressive notions ...