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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” ... -
Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context
(2007-11)This paper explores the critical reception of media art in Australia over the past three decades, with a view to encouraging more situated critical histories and historically aware critical practices. I give particular ... -
Listening to Cybernetics: Music, Machines, and Nervous Systems, 1950-1980
(2007-11)The influence of the field of cybernetics on scientific thought and disciplines has been explored in a number of contexts. However, cybernetics was remarkable for its portability and potential application in a wide variety ... -
Les structures de communication de l'Eglise Evangélique Luthérienne du Cameroun et leur impact socioculturelle dans l'Adamaoua (1960-2003)
This piece of work deals with the structures of communication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon (ELCC) during the years 1960 and 2003. Our topic is mainly based on the house of production Sawtu Linjiila, the ... -
Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the pro-Western Bias of Media History
(2007-11)Most media histories have been written from a Euro-American perspective: when considered at all, other parts of the world are usually pictured as passive recipients of innovations that have originated in the West, reflecting ... -
Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the pro-Western Bias of Media History
(2007-11)Most media histories have been written from a Euro-American perspective: when considered at all, other parts of the world are usually pictured as passive recipients of innovations that have originated in the West, reflecting ... -
Institutionalisation of Media Art in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socioeconomic Factors
(2007-11)The proposed paper reviews the process of institutionalisation of Media Art in Post-Soviet countries (primarily Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) in a period from the middle 80s to thepresent. It is focused on forms and principles ... -
Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State
(2007-11)In 1962 the Swedish Minister of Finances instigated a “Committee on National Taxation Organization” to deal with what has been called “the most extensive administrative revolution of the country ever in modern times.” This ... -
Haptic Connections - On Hapticality and the History of Visual Media
(2007-11)This paper will discuss the relationship between media history and the senses, with special attention to the concept of the haptic. The coming of cinema as well as the coming of digital media some hundred years later seem ... -
Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of Classroom Collaboration
(2007-11)My paper charts the history of the Generative Systems, a groundbreaking instructional program founded in 1970 by Professor Sonia Landy Sheridan at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and traces its seminal impact ...
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