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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 ... -
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 ... -
A plan for reproduction of stage equipments of Dumb type’s performance “pH”
I’m planning to reproduce stage equipment of performance “pH”. The performance was made around 1990. It was shown all over the world in the period of 1990~95. From the view point of Media Archeology, there are so many ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...