Donau Universitaet: Recent submissions
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Can there be an ‘Art History’ in the South?
(2007-11)The rise of media art has largely been inclined to media rather than art, in its academic, often elitist too, terms. The mode of production as well as consumption of the contemporary media art penetrated into the ... -
The avant-garde in the rear view mirror
(2007-11)The paper discusses a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-) Yugoslavia and Russia. The reasons for this paradigm shift can ... -
At the Crossroads of Art, Technology and Education – a cross-disciplinary expert meeting to discuss responsive media art education culture in the 21C
(2007-11)It is increasingly accepted that, alongside cybernetics, computer science, music and the visual arts, experimental performance practice is also essential for an understanding of past and present media arts history. After ... -
Art, War, and Cambridge Cybernetics
(2007-11)Cambridge, well known for the creation of the first full-scale operational stored-program computer EDSAC, is also important, but less well known, for the development of Cybernetic theory and the application of cross-disciplinary ... -
Art and science playing on the margins. On the discovery of photography in the 19th century Brazil.
(2007-11)This paper examines photography as a particular case of a multiple discovery in science and technology. It concerns an original photographic process developed during the 19th century Brazil simultaneously and independently ... -
African Digital Imaginaries
(2007-11)In an environment where popular media forms are traveling across borders and cultures, Africa is often regarded as a colonized space, flooded with foreign media products that are eroding traditional values. However, taking ... -
Establishing Established: Reversed Remediation in Broersen and Lukács’ ‘Establishing Eden’
Artists Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács, reveal the way the New Zealand landscape is appropriated by Hollywood movies such as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit.’ In Establishing Eden (2016), the viewer becomes ... -
Uncanny Realm – The Extension of The Natural
(Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts - BIO-CREATION AND PEACE (pp. 780–783). Manizales: Department of Visual Design, Universidad de Caldas, and ISEA International., 2017-06)Taking the uncanny valley concept by M. Mori (Mori 1970) as a starting point, the paper will investigate how this concept fits into experiments that are intertwining biological and technological matter. The uncanny valley ... -
Intertwining of the digital and the biological in the artistic practice
(Forthcoming 2018, 2018)In the recent two decades, we have witnessed a gradual shift observable in the works of artists working with technology. This shift can be characterized as moving from the digital and virtual realm towards the physical ... -
Art as a Playground for Evolution
(Riga: RIXC, 2016)The article connects artistic activity with play activity and evolution, which are considered on two levels. On the first level, play activity and its beneficial role to evolution is introduced through various science sc ... -
Uncovering information systems in the work of Teresa Burga
Teresa Burga (Iquitos, 1935) has developed, since the sixties, a pioneering work in information-based arts. However, her work has only in the last decade been studied in depth from a perspective that has revalued her ... -
Prolegomena for a Transdisciplinary Investigation Into the Materialities of Soft Systems
(Universidad de Caldas, 2017-06)This paper presents exploratory research on the materiality, aesthetics and ecological potential of soft robots. Within the still emergent paradigm of soft robotics research, bio-inspiration is often hailed as being of ... -
Leveraging Morphological Computation for Expressive Movement Generation in a Soft Robotic Artwork
(ACM, 2017-06)The paper describes the design of a cephalopod-inspired soft robot that is part of the art installation Tales of C (2017). Two soft modules for movement are presented, one actuated by a servo motor the other with pneumatics. ... -
Monument as Archive: artistic strategies from anti- to meta-memorial
In Kluszczynski's talk, he will address the issue of art that challenges colonization of social consciousness and collective memory. He will focus on selected works of Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sanja Iveković, and Masaki Fujihata ... -
Facebook’s MPK20 Headquarters by Frank Gehry
Facebook engaged renowned architect Frank Gehry for the design of a new headquarter building in Silicon Valley in 2012 that was completed in 2015. The 40,000 sqm large office building called MPK20 (short for Menlo Park ... -
The City as a Projection Space
Contemporary viewers’ reception of moving image based performances is undoubtedly affected by traditional cinematic experience [which refers to a dark, sound insulated room with fixed seats and a rectangular screen]. Since ... -
Art-Science connections for the visualisation of minerals: historical precedents for media arts
The Making of Rocks: ‘By what furnaces of fire the adamant was melted, and by what wheels of earthquake it was torn, and by what teeth of glacier and weight of sea-waves it was engraven and finished into its perfect form, ...