1. Refresh! 2005: Recent submissions
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Locative Media and Spatial Narrative
(2005-10)A survey of early cultural artifacts and their mining by contemporary locative media art and interactive public art practice. Specifically examined are issues of religious ritual, narrative and its spatialisation, including ... -
Legitimizing Video Games as an Art-Medium
(2005-10)Are video games Art? There is certainly much creativity in the medium but little of what one could consider Fine Art. The focus of most video games is reflected in the rise of the behemoth video game corporations with an ... -
Islamic Automation A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
This paper would draw on the work of al-Jazari, a 13th century Islamic scholar, engineer and scientist, specifically his The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Devices, as a means to develop alternative histories and futures ... -
Immersive and participative environments
(2005-10)Immersive and participative environments in this text are spaces which use computing systems to promote a state of perceptive illusion and which incite the visitor to participation stimulating and impressing sensory ... -
Image, Process, Performance, Machine. Aspects of a Machinic Aesthetics
(2005-10)For many centuries, machines have influenced the way we construct, read and understand the world. Such mediated approaches to the world have been further dramatised by digital apparatuses. They abstract the visible as well ... -
High Art/Low Culture - the Future of Media art Sciences?
High Art/Low Culture - the future of media art sciences? The gap between fine art and popular culture, ‚high art oeuvres' and ‚industrial media products' has been a point of discussion since Lesli Fiedler's canonical ... -
Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath
(2005-10)The creative role of artists working with technology is slowly becoming recognized. The impact of scientists who experiment with art is less visible even in the histories of technological art (Popper, Davies, Lovejoy, ... -
From Scenography to Planetary Network
(2005-10)Spectacular and technological, between the historic Avant-Garde and Post-Modernity, Jacques Polieri crosses and deconstructs data. Since the scenographic design of his shows is more complex than simply decorating space, ... -
From Nothingness to Technology, What Do We Read Ourselves in New Media
(2005-10)From the early beginning of western art history, art and technology are inseparable. The original meaning of the word "techne" in ancient Greek means "art" and "craft". The term "technology", was therefore a discourse on ... -
From Cybercolonialism to Cyberglocalization: A Virtual Shifting of Cultural Identity on National Museum Websites
Internet communications technologies change culture and subsequently how a museum represents itself. This is particularly so as national musea websites transform how we view and understand the cultural artifacts they house. ... -
Ectogenesis and Mother as Machine
(2005-10)The paper addresses the often neglected nexus between mother and machine, through the histories of the ideas of "ectogenesis" and "cybernetic organism". A discussion of Smith-Windsor's maternal experience as a cyborg-mother ... -
Digital computer art: A view from art history into the early beginnings
(2005-10)In 1965 Max Bense published the 'Aesthetica'. Referring to David Birkoff's mathematical aesthetics, Claude Shannons Information theory and Norbert Wieners Cybernetics, Bense developed a new aesthetic based on strict science. ... -
Digital Analysis of Structure and Form
(2005-10)The use of digital technologies can allow for an extended and enhanced understanding of art and architecture. The logical and parametric encoding used in data description languages can enable us to characterize relationship ... -
Dialogue: Assimilation: Subversion - Contemporary New Media Native Art in Canada
(2005-10)How is Western technology incorporated in the artistic discourse of non Western cultures? In 1992, BC Native artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun presented a virtual reality installation Inherent Rights, Vision Rights at the ... -
CyberRace Constructs: Transnational Identities in Roshini Kempadoo’s Ghosting
(2005-10)In debates concerning the underpinnings of cybertheory, the issue of race has become increasingly contentious. As C. Fusco argues, the "rather euphemistic discourse about the post-human era" has, not surprisingly, ...