Browsing 7. Re:Trace 2017 by Title
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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 ... -
Shifting Sands: Sand as Medium in Israeli New Media Art
The proposed paper investigates, in a specifically Israeli context, the use of sand as a medium for projection of generative animation. Works by two Israeli media artists, Ronen Shaharabani and Shirley Shor, will serve as ... -
Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution
This paper examines the history of social broadcasting and the experimental video art movement that brought about a radical departure from traditional, hierarchical forms of mainstream media and television. The concept of ... -
Speculative-sensible Experience in Ryoji Ikeda’s Audiovisual Installation and Performance Inside and Outside of the White Cube
Since the 1990s, audiovisual installation and performance have been pervasive not only in art museums and alternative gallery spaces but also in media art festivals and urban spaces, crossing the split between mainstream ... -
Stargazing and the "Data Sublime"
This paper explores the codependency between the explosion of information technology and human imagination, focusing specifically on stargazing and celestial imaging. Thanks to rapid technological advent in the 20th century, ... -
Streaming Liquidity Inc.: Singularization and Commodification of the Digital Artwork
Many digital artworks today exist uncomfortably between, on the one hand, the political economy of the art world—with its insistence on unique, auratic, and therefore valuable objects—and, on the other, that of the ... -
Tearing down the biometric cage: deconstructing biometric surveillance through art
This paper opens up for scrutiny the issue of transformation of strategies and practices of surveillance in the face of the widespread use of biometrics understood as bio-power technologies. Development of contemporary ... -
Technical phantasmagorias: the phantom-effect of moving images
It will be through its technical dimension that phantasmagoria will assume itself as a modern concept, (re)emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, enunciated, for example by Walter Benjamin, as an altered ... -
Techno-Organic Practices in the Nordic Art
Title: Techno-Organic Practices in the Nordic Art. The paper presents recent artistic works from Nordic countries that exemplify a technology-infused mindset that is dominating our (humans) relationship towards ...