Donau Universitaet: Recent submissions
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Bush Video
Bush Video was a unique collaborative video operation running on an unconsciously anarchic model. It was the seminal organisation through which video in many of its forms was established in Australia. Established in 1973 ... -
Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration
The use of scientific data to create artworks has always played an important part in the arts, and music has been no exception. The impact of developments such as electricity, the phonograph, the cassette recorder and the ... -
The Art of being novel: rethinking cartographies of personalisation
In a global period whereby the “personal” is no longer associated with people but with affective technologies (Shirky 2008; Lasén 2004), the old feminist adage of the “personal as political” takes on new dimensions of ... -
A-Life: the creation and development of new modes of realism
This paper considers art and Artificial Life vis-à-vis the development and creation of new modes of realism. A brief sketch of the current conditions that underpin much in Artificial Life provides an alternative framework ... -
The Sonic Commons
The Sonic Commons is an examination of the formation of the contemporary urban soundscape, or the Sonic Commons and the social, economic and technological pressures that are transforming our shared aural spaces. The paper ... -
postvinyl
The history of audio-records, record players and DJs had its ups and downs during the last 6 decades. Vinyl records had their first appearances in the 1940ies, seemed to have gone in the 80ies and reappeared gloriously in ... -
Histories of live meetings - case study: five conferences on computer-generated art and related theories in Zagreb, 1968 – 1978
Five international meetings of more than hundred artist and theoreticians of computer-based arts were held within the exhibition projects Tendencies 4 (1968 - 1969), Tendencies 5 (1973) and Tendencies 6 (1978) in Zagreb. ... -
Visual Digitality: Towards Another Understanding
Given the assumption that the way an image is put together affects how we see it, this paper will seek to explore how art, image, photography and painting can be talked about since the advent of digital painting, especially ... -
RE:COPYing-IT-RIGHT AGAIN
RE:COPYing-IT-RIGHT AGAIN addresses art-science-technology connections in Media Art from Chicago during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Artists, including Phil Morton (founder of the Video Area at The School of the Art ... -
The Forgotten Pioneers of Creative Hacking and Social Networking– Introducing the Demoscene
During mid 1980s evolved a networked culture that brought together tens of thousands of teenagers within the computerized world: the demoscene. This culture revolved around the production, dissemination, and competition ... -
Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad Zuse
The Z3 computer made by Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin is described, paying attention in detail to the facts and inspirations related with the use of punched film as a store medium in that machine. The text has several ... -
Erewhon: framing media utopia in the antipodes
Erewhon is a geographical location, a novel, and a fragment of our technological imaginary. Described by Samuel Butler as somewhere between nowhere and elsewhere, Erewhon provides a framework for understanding antipodean ... -
You have been processed! Exploring Early Artists’ & Engineers’ Collaborations with Video Processing Machines
In a recent Atlantic magazine article called “Our Bots, Ourselves”, science writer Matthew Hutson describes how Artificial Intelligence will change our lives. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/our-bots ... -
Yima: A Proposition for Archiving Cultural Heritage Through Objects Rather Than Human Subjectivity
This paper introduces the Yima Project, initiated by FH Salzburg, V2 and marart.org, that has the ambitious aim of de-anthropocentralising subjective histories for objective futures, by showing events through objects, ... -
The World, Another 24 Hours: Practice-Based Research and the works of Robert Adrian X & Bill Bartlett
In 1982, Robert Adrian X, Bill Bartlett, and a host of artists staged a worldwide telecommunications performance entitled “The World in 24 Hours” «Die Welt in 24 Stunden». In it,16 different timezones connected to the Ars ... -
When "new media art" became the solution to endow cultural identity to its community? - the history of new media art in South Korea since 1980s
Since the beginning of Venice Biennale was to revitalize the city, many cultural events are required to devote the revitalization of a coutnry, or a cuty where they are held. In South Korea, there have been lots of "new ... -
The Vasulka Chamber and Media Art in Iceland
In October 2014 the Vasulka Chamber opened at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. The “chamber” is founded on a donation from the video art pioneers, Steina and Woody Vasulka, both Icelandic citizens that have ... -
Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism
This audio-visual paper offers a Re-Trace and reboot of two disciplinary fields that some consider outdated and defunct, by proposing a bold aesthetic theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism. It argues that throughout the ...