2. re:place 2007: Recent submissions
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An Eternal Engine
This paper explores the idea of a contemporary Writing Machine. It theorises this notion as a further development of Borges's modernisation of Ramon Llull's 'thinking machine'. The paper applies this analysis to Wikipedia, ... -
Connaïtre les médias d'Afrique subsaharienne:Problématiques, sources et ressources
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‘Complexity-Uncanny’: Concepts and Methods in 20th century art
D'Arcy Thompson's 1917 On Growth and Form has had an unprecedented impact on modernism and the production of modernist discourses on form. The reception of Thompson's work in the context of the history of science, art and ... -
The Art of Installation
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Arte e ciência no século XIX: um estudo em torno da descoberta da fotografia no Brasil
(Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2004)This paper examines the relationship between art and science in the discovery of photography. It concerns an original photographic process created by the Frenchman Hercule Florence in the 19th century Brazil, simultaneously ... -
Anatomy Lessons
(Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2004)Practice-led interdisciplinary research, linked to completed PhD investigation into representations, historical and contemporary, of the anatomical theatre and the bio-medical domain. Funding: AHRC ‘Small Grants in The ... -
Ambientes Imersivos e participativos
(Brasília: IdA, 2005-09)Ambientes imersivos e participativos nesse texto são espaços que se utilizam do sistema computacional para promover uma ilusão perceptiva e que estimulam os sentidos do visitante através de aparatos multimidiáticos. Nos ... -
Vitalist technocratism in the times of materialist idealism on the philosophy of technology by Piotr Engelmeier in pre- and early Soviet Russia
(2007-11)The talk interprets the body of work by the philosopher-engineer Piotr Engelmeier dating from the 1910s-1920s. A few stories are tangled together here: a brief history of Russian philosophy of technology; an account of ... -
Video: Once Upon a Time There Was a Database…Database and Narrative from a Cognitive (...)
Once upon a time there was a database-Database and narrative from a cognitive (...) If narration makes up a core element in how we perceive and understand the world, such as has been argued from various corners of the ... -
Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices
(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 ... -
Democracy and Art at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968
(2007-11)This paper investigates the way new media art affected the Venice Biennale in the late 60s. In particular it analyses how the developments of technology in art amplified the critical situation the Venice Biennale was facing ... -
Software Art Has No History
(2007-11)In the 1970s, and in parallel to the increasing visibility of computer technologies in culture, the term software was employed as a cultural metaphor to indicate a shift away from an emphasis on the (hardware) object of ... -
Philosophizing in Translation: Vilém Flusser’s Brazilian Writings of the 1960s
(2007-11)Of the thirty-two years the original and controversial philosopher Vilém Flusser lived in Brazil—from 1940 to 1972 when he left the country to lead a truly nomadic international life of lectures and publications—the 1960s ... -
Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
(2007-11)The historic meeting of electrical engineer Billy Kluver and painter Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 symbolizes a larger technocultural convergence of the worlds of research-based applied sciences ... -
Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering” and E.A.T.
(2007-11)The historic meeting of electrical engineer Billy Kluver and painter Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 symbolizes a larger technocultural convergence of the worlds of research-based applied sciences ... -
Morphogenesis in action. D’Arcy Thompson, L.L. Whyte and the experimental in Leonardo 1960-2007
(2007-11)In 1951 LL Whyte edited the proceedings of the symposium Aspects of Form which accompanied the ICA exhibition On Growth and Form curated by Richard Hamilton. Whyte advocated a ‘structural’ vision of nature and art and such ... -
The media perspective in the study of scientific abstraction
(2007-11)What I have chosen to refer to as the "media perspective" is a way of looking at science, its history and its philosophy which has been successfully employed in a number of recent studies. In these works, the term “medium” ...