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Design of Narrative Book Collection: Redesigning Pre-Modern Japanese Books in the Digital Age
This paper introduces Narrative Book Collection—a unique model of digital exhibition for pre-modern Japanese books that explores computational and visualization approaches to create a new book reading experience in the ... -
Digging the (new) media art scene of İstanbul: Towards Media Art Historical Re-discovery
This study is an attempt to excavate and analyze (new) media art scene of İstanbul in order to explore the particularities in the field and local histories of media art. There is still ambiguity about what (new) media art ... -
Ethico-onto-epistemologies of Media Art: A case study of the “Protocol for Interdisciplinary Research” project
As all steps of Art’s value chain get transformed by the ever-challenging practices of Media Arts and other forms as Art and Science intersections, and while agents and Institutions are adapting to the on-going transformation ... -
An Example of Conscientious Handling of Time-Based Media Artwork
For the past 35 years, the Kunstsammlung des Landes Niederösterreich has been acquiring media art in various formats, such as video sculptures, installations and film. The result of these 35 years of acquisition is a ... -
Gaze and Geometry: comparing two languages of vision from Medieval Eastern and Modern Western visual compositions
Islamic patterns from the medieval era are non-figurative displays of repetitive geometric shape relations on architectural surfaces. They are historically created as designs of a particular cultural setting and are said ... -
Genealogy of personal playback devices in the audio and video walks of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
When discussing artworks within an art historical discourse, there is a tendency to revert to paradigms of sensibility, narrative or meaning and disregard the structure of an artwork. This inclination is evident in discussions ... -
From the Digital to the Post-Digital – the Photographic Image
Digital technologies have transformed the photographic medium from being representational to performative. In this way, they introduced a new kind of affinity between the visual image and the world. This paper will suggest ... -
Glitching the Museum: Disruptive Media Art in a Permanent Collection
In late 2016, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam acquired seventeen works by leading artists working with digital technologies and cultures. Selected for inclusion into the permanent collection were for instance works by glitch ... -
How do digital technologies affect the aesthetics of Japanese calligraphy art and culture?
In the recent decades, artists and researchers have shown an increased interest in applying new technologies to traditional arts in Japan, especially in the field of calligraphy art, painting, and the Zen culture. In one ... -
Governing Publics: the Politics of Optical Media in 18th-Century England and America
Eighteenth-century visual media figure in hybrid forms of governance-at-a-distance. Local sites commanded by buildings are conflated with viewing-boxes that claim trans-local effects – theatres, courtly and public gardens, ... -
Horror and the history of immersive media art
The horror genre has always played a role in the application and development of new media culture. From early examples of augmented reality effects such as the Pepper’s Ghost in the 1890’s or William Castle’s experimentations ... -
Hybrid ecologies on the anthropocene: Mar Menor Research
ISBE: Mar Menor Research is a media art project at the intersection of ecology, technology and arts. It aproaches the enviromental landscape of Mar Menor lagoon (Spain), a singular ecosystem on crisis, a territory where ... -
La Biennale internationale de l'art numérique de Montréal (BIAN) - AUTOMATA
Although a relatively young manifestation, our biennale has quickly forged a strong reputation in the international media art scene, for the high caliber of work presented around timely thematics. Our event is unique and ... -
Mediating Resistance: Indian New Media Art
In India, the steady globalization during 1990s, affected landmark shifts in our everyday experiences. Machines like the personal computer or the video recorder, were unpacking exciting intersections between the human and ... -
Live streams. Introducing the narratives of local waters to Aotearoa/New Zealand media art
In this paper, I firstly investigate the role of contemporary media art practice as a catalyst to cultivate ecological sensitivities towards the wellbeing of local water bodies in Aotearoa/New Zealand and secondly discuss ... -
Media Art and Politics: The Question of Tomorrow
The author addresses the relevance of the question of tomorrow for the new media art and reconsiders similar functions of art and visualizations from the past cultures – anticipation, vision and the claim for a change. The ... -
Mediascapes in ‘Cities on the Move in Bangkok’ (1999)
The paper focuses on the cultural and social exchange amongst Asian and European architects, artists, filmmakers and designers happening in the multi-media exhibition "Cities on the Move 6 – Bangkok (1999)." The analysis ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On Scale and Fields: Artistic Practice and Agricultural Machines
This paper explores thematic parallels between artistic and agricultural practices in the postwar period to establish a link to media art and cultural practices that are currently emerging in urban agriculture. Industrial ...