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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 ...
On Adjacent Infrastructural Tactics for Urban Screens (Shanghai version)
This paper addresses what media art can do in a context (here, Shanghai) in which urban screens and related architectural facades seem ubiquitously present – nearly inescapable in some areas of the city – yet in which media ...
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 ...
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 ...
History/practices of sound art in Serbia
Starting from the thesis that “history is a narrative rather than a discovery” (Munslow), in this paper I shall try to construct a narrative about Sound Art as an artistic category which could be incorporated under the ...
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 ...