Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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Latent Rhythm: Algorithmic Performativity in Media Art and Islamic Calligraphy
Algorithmic art forms are characterized by latent movement. If an algorithm is a statement of instructions that will bring about a new state, then many repetitive art forms can be said to be algorithmic. In computer media, ... -
Legitimizing Video Games as an Art-Medium
(2005-10)Are video games Art? There is certainly much creativity in the medium but little of what one could consider Fine Art. The focus of most video games is reflected in the rise of the behemoth video game corporations with an ... -
Locative Media and Spatial Narrative
(2005-10)A survey of early cultural artifacts and their mining by contemporary locative media art and interactive public art practice. Specifically examined are issues of religious ritual, narrative and its spatialisation, including ... -
Logic of Innovation: Interpreting 'Invention' in Art and Science
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, 'invention' often referred to a process of composition which traversed artistic, literary, and scientific fields. In the eighteenth century, the concept changed its meaning, ... -
Lowbrow, high art: Why Big Fine Art doesn't understand interactivity
(2005-10)Interactivity and playfulness are rarely exalted in the conservative institutions, or Big Fine Art, either because it they signify a lack of serious comment or because these approaches are populist, which Big Fine Art ... -
Making Studies in New Media Critical
Science Studies faces new challenges in making public the societal and ethical implications of contemporary technoscience. Not only must we contend with its multidisciplinary character, and its close linkage to entrepreneurial ... -
Media Art in Pakistan - Not just another "in your face" advertisement campaign!
(2005-10)In the last few years Pakistani city dwellers have witnessed a series of audio visual explosions. Along with towering billboards obstructing the city skyline and distracting mobile phones that ring in public spaces, a ... -
'Media Art Net': Database and Context
"Media Art Net": Database and Context "Media Art Net" aims at mediating and contextualizing media art online, a project edited by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels and commissioned by ZKM (Center for Art and Media), ... -
Media Art Sciences & Feminist Theories: New Alliances?
(2005-10)The old and odd discussion concerning High Art versus Low Culture might be still alive in mainstream art history as well as in an advanced media art history and/or media art sciences. I do not want to force this issue ... -
Media Art: Hybridization and Autonomy
(2005-10)In order to replace Media Art in its intercultural and historical context, the author attempts to define what characterizes it, beyond the sometimes great differences of its expressions. And what characterizes it is ... -
Media Arts and Media Archaeology - Collision or Convergence
The defining characteristic of the media arts is often considered to be their occupation with the most recent technologies. Purporting to uncover their unused potential, media artists push their boundaries, scrutinizing ... -
MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes (Introduction to the Session)
After photography, film, video, and the little known media art history of the 1960s-80s, today media artists are active in a wide range of digital areas (including interactive, genetic, telematic and nanoart). Media Art ... -
MediaArtHistories: Times & Landscapes 1 (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Islamic Automation: A reading of al-Jazari’s The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)’ by Gunalan Nadarajan; • ‘REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA! ... -
MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes 2 (Introduction to the Session)
Although there has been important scholarship on intersections between art and technology, there is no comprehensive technological history of art (as there are feminist and Marxist histories of art, for example.) Canonical ... -
MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes 2 (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art’ by Edward Shanken; • ‘Early British Computer Art: the Findings of the CACHe Project’ by Charly Gere; • ‘How ... -
Methodologies (Introduction to the Session)
This session tries to give a critical overview of which methods art history has been using during the past to approach media art. Papers regarding media archaeological, anthropological, narrative and observer oriented ... -
Methodologies (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Between Media and Art, or Media Art with and against Art History’ by Mark Hansen; • ‘Media Arts and Media Archaeology – Collision or Convergence’ by Erkki Huhtamo; ... -
Music: The First Digital Art
The early period of computers arts, from the mainframes of the 1950s through the first microcomputers during the late-1970s, has been understood as a period of attempts and possibilities rather than achievements. The ... -
New Media in an Adhocracy
(2005-10)In previous studies, I sketched a three-part typology of modern studio-laboratories as institutions committed to research and creation in new media. In this paper I extend and problematize the three-part categorization by ... -
On Cross Cultural Initiatives and Collaborative Practice
(2005-10)The presentation -based on two decades of personal experience-, is focused on cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaborations. Current case studies include the Aurora Public Feast at the Finnish Heureka Science Museum, ...