Browsing Refresh! Conference - Presentations by Title
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Creative Networks: Frictionless or Regulated?
Musicians remixing each other, programmers hacking together an open code project, and activists organizing grass-roots campaigns depend on easy access to each other's time and labor. While networked creativity usually ... -
Cross Culture – Global Art (Introduction to the Plenary Session)
The panels in Cross-Culture--Global Art provide an opportunity to examine cross-cultural influences, the global and the local. New media histories include dramatically different influences and parallels to new media art. ... -
Cross-Culture – Global Art (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Cross Culture – Global Art’ by Sara Diamond; • ‘CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo’s Ghosting’ by Sheila Petty; • ‘From Cybercolonialism ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Introduction to the Session)
The pressure to become interdisciplinary is very intense—coming from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Ironically, this pressure has been around for a very long time. So, why don’t we just strive for excellence ... -
Cross-Disciplinary Research Methods (Q&A session)
The panel consisted of the following presentations: • ‘Events of Significance’ by Frieder Nake; • ‘Is New Media New?’ by Ron Burnett; • ‘Transculturation and New Media History’ by Dot Tuer; • ‘Grounded Materialities: ... -
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in R. Kempadoo's Ghosting
In debates concerning the underpinnings of cybertheory, the issue of race has become increasingly contentious. As C. Fusco argues, the "rather euphemistic discourse about the post-human era" has, not surprisingly, ... -
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in Roshini Kempadoo’s Ghosting
(2005-10)In debates concerning the underpinnings of cybertheory, the issue of race has become increasingly contentious. As C. Fusco argues, the "rather euphemistic discourse about the post-human era" has, not surprisingly, ... -
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, ...