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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 ... -
Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971
This paper examines the common omission of the Art and Technology movement of the 1960s from histories of the period by tracing shifting attitudes on the part of artists and critics toward technology. In the early 1960s ... -
The Computer in Art
Computers entered the world of art by the back door. They emerged as art instruments in two guises: as machines for making pictures and as tools in the building of responsive sculptures and environments. During the 1960s, ... -
The Demise of the Identical Architectural Standardization in the Age of Digital Reproducibility
(2005-10)The theory of non-standard architecture is the latest avatar to date of the digital revolution in architecture, now early in its second decade. In its simplest technical definition, non standard seriality means the mass ... -
'The Fourth Dimension', the History of Science, and New Media
To write the history of new media, historians must have a solid grasp of the cultural field in which such artists were operating. The popular "fourth dimension" and its vicissitudes during the 20th century serve as an ... -
The Myth of Immateriality - Presenting & Preserving New Media
The process-oriented nature of the digital medium -- which is inherently interactive, customizable, variable, and participatory -- poses numerous challenges to the traditional art world, ranging from presentation to ... -
The Performative Turn in New Media - A Critical History
While the performative turn (Victor Turner) that ushered in the field of performance studies some 25 years ago also now seems a logical step as digital media increasingly embraces the dynamic, ephemeral, real time event ... -
The Reception and Rejection of Art and Technology: Exclusions and Revulsions
(2005-10)The development and use of science and technology by artists always has been, and always will be, an integral part of the art-making process. Nonetheless, the canon of western art history has not placed sufficient emphasis ... -
The Semiosis of Media Art, Science and Technology
The notion of semiotic mediation is proposed as a dynamic hypothesis for the remodeling of our conceptual framework in the volatile time we are living in. Semiosis can function as an anthropological-historical rainbow to ... -
The Web Biennial Project: Developing Distributed, Real-time, Multimedia Presentation Technologies to Develop Independent, Open, Collaborative, Exhibition Models.
(2005-10)The Web Biennial (WB) is a large scale, non-national, bi-annual contemporary art exhibition created exclusively for the World Wide Web (W.W.W). Both of the Web Biennial’s in 2003 and 2005 has been announced, produced, ... -
Toward a Relational History of Media and its Practices
This presentation will briefly outline the parameters and cultural logic of a relational approach to the history of media and some practices that might be based on it. -
Towards a Comprehensive Technological History of Art
The development and use of science and technology by artists always has been, and always will be, an integral part of the art-making process. Nonetheless, the canon of western art history has not placed sufficient emphasis ... -
Tracing the Dynabook: A Historiograph
(2005-10)In 1970, Alan Kay began a project at Xerox' Palo Alto Research Center that would have an unparalleled impact on the media landscape of the 21st century; he set out to invent personal computing. Kay's contributions are, in ... -
Transculturation and New Media History
This paper considers the application of the post-colonial concepts of hybridity and transculturation to the theorization of new media art as a dynamic site of exchange, in which the collision of simulation and the primacy ... -
V2_'s Archive - A Dynamic Model for the Description of Media Art
Since its early history in the beginning of the 1980s, V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, has documented its programs and activities, in an increasingly structured way, by means of photographs and video registrations. ...