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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Death in Paris: How Mathematics Became an Art
(2007-11)In the early decades of the 19th century, the science of mathematics underwent a transformation that has shaped its course to this day. From a field that studies the physical world around us, it became the study of sublime ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From Life to Cognition: investigating the role of biology and neurology in new media arts practice
(2007-11)This paper offers a critical analysis of the relationship between new media arts practice and science occurring at two specific junctures: the migration of key concepts from the life sciences into digital arts during the ... -
Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s
(2007-11)In 1969, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted the first Intermedia exhibition, Electrical Connection, featuring a broad range of works. With their geodesic domes, preoccupation with circuit schematics and "happening" presentation ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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” ... -
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 ...