Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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What are “Centers for Media Art” Good For If You Can Buy a “Media System” for the Price of a Used Car? Or: ZKM and EMPAC as Institutions with Physical Spaces for Artistic Productions with Digital Tools
Germany was the last of the highly industrialized country, in which digital tools as an option in artistic fields were embraced by institutions. The change from mainframes to PCs and from open systems to commercially ... -
What Can the History of New Media Learn from History of Science/Science Studies? (Introduction to the Session)
As in the case of artists working in traditional media who have engaged science and technology, new media artists must be situated contextually in the "cultural field" (Kate Hayles) in which they have worked or are working. ... -
Where Cybernetics Met the Counterculture: The Us Company
Since the late 1960s, historians have argued that in the early part of that decade, as artists embraced new technologies, art itself became "dematerialized." Where once painters and sculptors had crafted one-of-a-kind ... -
World Narrative: The Creation of a New ?Place?
The narratives of the modern world, driven by the individual and the pursuit of freedom and individuality, have sought to conquer, control, transform, document, develop and ultimately recreate a sense of place. And there ... -
Zombies of the Revolution
Although the body of cybernetics died in the 60's, some of its parts live a ghostly (or uncanny) existence in New Media Art discourse. Cybernetics once promised so much: a new ontology closing the gap between animate and ...