Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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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, ... -
On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology -Toward the Cultural Evolution of Human-being
Reflection on the historical contribution of several key institutions in the world, which could have changed the art movement since 60s till now drastically, and about the insightful role of the key leaders who had deeply ... -
Once upon a time there was a database: Database and narrative from a cognitive point of view
(2005-10)If narration makes up a core element in how we perceive and understand the world, such as has been argued from various corners of the academic field within the last couple of decades, how should we then understand the ... -
Open Source Culture
Artists have always influenced and imitated one another, but in the 20th century various forms of appropriation, from collage to sampling, emerged as an alternative to originary creativity. Instead of making things entirely ... -
Oscillations... Occasions of Excess and Interrogation
This paper discusses the complexity surrounding inter-cultural exchange, from a post-colonial, critical Indian perspective. For this, I consider my film practice, informed by discourses and thoughts I have engaged within ... -
Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach
Since 1999, the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) of The Daniel Langlois Foundation is building a documentation collection on the history, artworks and practices associated with the electronic, digital and media ... -
Phytodynamics and Plant Difference
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Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation
Recently, the philosopher Galen Strawson suggested that there has been an over-emphais on narrative in the construction of self, at the expense of non-narrative constructions – evident in writers such as Montaigne, Proust ... -
Pop/Mass/Society (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Technology as Art: ‘Device Art’ as a New Japanese Paradigm’ by Machiko Kusahara; • ‘Archiving of Computer Games’ by Andreas Lange; • ‘Computer Games: Art in the ... -
Post-Guten(morgen)berg: Soundings for a North/South Atlas of Art and New Media Histories
A look at some of the ideas, concepts and theoretical models Rudolf Arnheim took up over the years to probe ongoing and emerging domains of visual experience, processes and technologies. Can his conceptual kit — made up ... -
Projection: Vanishing and Becoming
(2005-10)In Pliny's account of the origins of painting, projected light is the medium traced by the maid of Corinth. In Leroi-Gourhan's account's of palaeolithic art, projection plays a key role in the definition of hands as ... -
RE-writing the History of Media Art: How Hypermedia Change our Vision of the Past (The Case of Artistic Collaboration)
When we discuss the issue of the collaborative practices in the context of the avant-garde art we have, first of all to say that the avant-garde has been always considered a phenomenon based on the idea of the artistic ... -
Rejuvenate: Film, Sound and Music in Media Arts History (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Music: The First Digital Art’ by Douglas Kahn; • ‘Projection: Vanishing and Becoming’ by Sean Cubitt; • ‘Hollis Frampton’s Algorithmic Aesthetic’ by Keith Sanborn. -
REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA! Virtual Art of the 19th century and its future
Virtual Art of the 19th century and its future The medium Phantasmagoria, developed from the Laterna Magica and part of the history of immersion, opened up the virtual depth of the image space for the first time as a ... -
Richard Monkhouse & Peter Donebauer, and Development of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor
This paper discusses the background, origins and development, as well as the functions and operation, of two early British video synthesisers by the artist/engineers who designed and built them: the EMS “Spectron” by Richard ... -
SAT-TEL-COMP (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of Multi-Dimensional Artist Networks through the Connectivity of (Technological) Telecommunication Devices and Human Dialogue
The history of SAT-TEL-COMP at Open Space (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) and COLLABORATORY as a curatorial basis which set the groundwork for a communications network between artists, engineers. As well, the creation ... -
Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts
Slow time is one of contemporary art's most persistent (although under-studied) modus operandi. It has been especially pivotal to the development of video art. In the 1970s, Nam June Paik claimed that video is essentially ... -
Technology as Art: 'Device Art' as a New Japanese Paradigm
Device art is a proposal to re-examine art-science-technology relationship both from contemporary and historical aspects. The concept is derived from Japanese media art scene, but it has a universal nature reflecting what ...