Browsing 7. Re:Trace 2017 by Title
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Parlor of Futures: Tarot cards, Futures Techniques and Octave Obdurant's "Cosmographic Comparator"
We are performing a material media archeology investigations into the origins of our concept of innovation and future through the 16th century Tarot cards and divination techniques, which we combine and contrast with present ... -
Pink Skies and Green Screens: Readymade Colors and Chroma Keyed Moods in Video Art Since 2010
This paper examines the mood enhancing qualities of two chromatic tropes that recur with striking frequency in video art from the present decade: pink skies and green-screens. Featured in works by artists such as Victoria ... -
Post-digital paradigm shift: from Narcissus to Perseus
A common approach to self-portraits is via paradigm (and theory) of Narcissism. Still, a shift funeral, hospital or roof selfies introduce into visuals of our time is; they describe the world, not as a mere individual set ... -
Postdigital Pasts
As David Berry and Michael Dieter (2012) have described, postdigital refers not to life-after-digital but rather the ways in which computation has become ‘experiential, spatial and materialized; embedded and embodied’, ... -
Postimage: On the Future Evolution of the Image and its Theory
This paper is part of a research project that addresses the future evolution of the image taking into account the increasing accuracy and autonomy of computer and machine vision. Taking the case of so-called mixed swarm ... -
Projects in Visualizing Data 1992-2017
The translation of multivariate abstract data into visualization first requires a process of classification which is inherently culturally defined, given that systems of classification tend to be shaped by discipline-specific ... -
Prolegomena for a Transdisciplinary Investigation Into the Materialities of Soft Systems
(Universidad de Caldas, 2017-06)This paper presents exploratory research on the materiality, aesthetics and ecological potential of soft robots. Within the still emergent paradigm of soft robotics research, bio-inspiration is often hailed as being of ... -
Pulse Project: Listening Across Disciplines and Cultures
This paper introduces Pulse Project (2011-2017), a performance research series exploring an ecology of complex relations between art, humanities, medicine, technology and culture. In this series, I embody transdisciplinary ... -
Re-appropriating the messiness of things: a more-than-human approach to curating in art and science
Despite being in full sight, many cabinets and showcases at universities and scientific institutions lie empty or underutilized. Located at the entrance of science departments, in proximity of laboratories, or in busy areas ... -
Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories
This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 70s and 80s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial ... -
Re-Tracing Aesthetic Strategies in Times of Electronic Waste
This paper starts with the assumption that we live in “Times of Waste”. Waste is haunting us, in waste we had to dwell, with waste we had to live, not against it. There is never nothing at the start, just as something is ... -
Re-Tracing Methods: Rethinking Media Art Histories and Relations Between the North and the Global South
This paper examines the work of Mexican artist Marcela Armas, and the Colombian artistic duo Martinez-Zea (Camilo Martinez and Gabriel Zea). Although different at the aesthetic and conceptual level, the works of these ... -
Reflections of contemporary society in media art: The visitor as a leading actor in artworks
This paper will focus on research into a newly evolving field in interactive media art within the genre of portrait: the visitors-portrait. For this, we can use already-established art historic methods, visual perception ... -
Restored behavior: Performing Materiality
This paper reflects on the oeuvre of the Uruguayan media artist Brian Mackern and the Mexican performance practitioner Mónica Mayer as means to explore theoretical and practical challenges involved in the presentation, ... -
Rethinking Affordance
Responding to the continued, accelerating rise of algorithmic culture, this presentation re-conceptualizes the concept of ‘affordance’ for the digital age, with a focus on theorizing artistic, practice-based interventions. ... -
Return of operativity: Prolegomena to a grand narrative of media in deep time
When in recent decades extended temporal scales have entered media history, including MediaArtHistories, this has mostly implied the subversion of temporal coherence and evolutionary logic (cp. Huhtamo’s, Ernst’s and others’ ... -
Robot Aesthetics and Cultural Imperialism: the Double Hermeneutic of Computational Photography
This paper attempts to investigate the consequences of the emerging field of Automatic Aesthetic Quality Estimation, where deep neural networks are trained to predict the average ‘aesthetic rating’ of a photo. I first ... -
Science/Fiction: Canadian Information Art in the 1970s
This paper proposes an original reading of Canadian artists’ evolving relationship to information technologies and changing concepts of “information” during the 1970s, as McLuhan’s media metaphysics entered a period of ... -
Scroll as Virtual Media: Kinetic Abstraction and Projection circa 1920
This paper considers the historical avant-garde’s use of scrolls to delineate an alternative history of experimental cinema. In 1919, Hans Richter, associated with the Bauhaus, experimented with scroll drawing titled ... -
Sensed Selves: The (expanded) Sensorium in Media Art History
In his late work Technologies of the Self, the French philosopher Michel Foucault famously described four “technologies” that train, produce and regulate modern selves. For Foucault, technology or “techné” involves forms ...