Browsing 7. Re:Trace 2017 by Title
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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 ... -
Teresa Burga: a pioneer multimedia and information artist
This paper aims to analyze the work of Teresa Burga (Iquitos, Peru, 1935), as a multimedia artist whose conceptual pieces from the late 1960s and 1970s position her as a precursor of media art, information-based art, and ... -
The anarchive series as a challenge between art and information. Another approach of media art history today
Based on examples from the anarchive series of digital monographs with artists such as Muntadas, Snow, Kuntzel, Otth, Nakaya, Fujihata and Campus, this presentation will discuss the incidence of digital technologies on the ... -
The artistic contribution of the electrographic practices in the archaeology of electronic art
Nowadays that it is almost a fact that electronic art and, therefore, Media Art, was not born without inheritance, this research presents a return to the past through the Media Archaeology methodology and within Media Art ... -
The Crowdsourced Archive: Mobile Media, Photography, and the Local(ized) Frame
As mobile devices have proliferated, so too have the number of images that attempt to document a sense of place. These images are contributing to a growing visual database of how individuals see a region or a location. In ... -
The MONIAC and the Arts
In the relationship between early computers and the arts, there are eccentric examples that illuminate the intricate complexity of such interaction. A paradigmatic example is the MONIAC analog computer, since, on the one ... -
THE PHYSIOGNOMIC (UN)GENRE: Challenges of Automated Facial Expression Analysis-Based Media Art to both the Art and Science of Face
As 9/11, Facebook, and WikiLeaks level events forever change the media climate, the past-perfect promise of a newest harnessed methodology for face datafication and emotions computability inspires in the cultural imaginary ... -
The post-digital imagery as relational object
I would like to re-examine the category of representation for the post-digital imagery which is understood in terms of “the continuous actualization of networked data” or “networked terminal” [Marie, Hoelzl 2015: loc. 146, ... -
The Shape of the Moving Image
Driven by cognitive studies of visuo-auditory narrative media, our research focusses on developing methods for the machine coding of the shape of the moving image from the viewpoints of artificial intelligence, visuo-spatial ...