re:place Conference - Presentations: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...