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‘The Arts Make Us Richer’™: Propertization of Digital Art Using Cryptocurrency Technologies
This paper explores recent efforts by cultural institution and private startup companies to engineer digital art markets using cryptocurrency technologies in order to propertize digital artworks that were previously ... -
Audio Toy Box: Building customizable communication therapy toys using Radio Frequency Identification
‘Critical Making’ understood as hybrid conceptual/material practices supported by humanistic theories and assumptions are increasingly en vogue. Increasingly, humanities faculties in North America are developing programs ... -
The Co-production of Art: Collaborations between artists, scientists and engineers in Sweden, 1967-2009
During the 1960s, when artists started to gain access to computers at universities and research departments in the industry, a new kind of collaboration between artists and engineers emerged. Today, during the first decade ... -
Coming To Our Senses: A Report on the Sensory Turn in Curatorial and Media Art Practice
This paper begins by charting the emergence of sensory studies as an autonomous field and method of inquiry. Its genesis is traced to the sensory turn in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, which gave ... -
A Brief (Media) History of the Indigenous Future
Indigenous people have been subject to willful misrepresentation via Western media technologies since the first written accounts returned to Europe from the conquistadores and colonists in the 15th century. Paul Kane used ... -
Aphasic Aesthetics: Thinking with the Body across Disability Studies, Media Art and Phenomenology
This paper explores the intersection between speech therapy, immersive multimedia installation art and phenomenological approaches to empathy. Taking as a case study contemporary artists that are engaging in a dialogue ... -
Entendre la guerre, éprouver le temps : l’expérience sonore dans Starry Night (2006) de Mazen Kerbaj
Lors d’une conférence prononcée à Montréal (FTA, 2014), les artistes Rabih Mroué et Lina Saneh ont témoigné du désenchantement lié à l’impossibilité de se projeter dans le futur au cours de la guerre civile libanaise ... -
Edmund Carpenter’s Experiments across Visual Anthropology and Critical Media Pedagogies
This presentation explores the neglected contributions of the unorthodox cultural anthropologist Edmund Carpenter (19222011) to crossdisciplinary media and communication studies. Carpenter worked in CBC radio, film, ... -
Curating Humanism: Negotiating the Politics of New Media, 1965/2015
On December 15, 1970, Howard Wise announced that he was closing his gallery in New York City. Throughout the 1960s, Wise’s exhibitions had stridently promoted the use of new media technologies in art, including computers (1965) ... -
Cultural Software - Materiality and Abstraction in 60s art and technology
The 1960s saw an explosion of new art genres: happenings, environments, performance art, body art, sitespecific art, minimalism, art+technology, expanded cinema and conceptual art. These practices were often identified ... -
Digital Art History, 56°56’51” N 24°6’23”E
Fortunately Latvia has found a place in Media Art history. This is evidenced by the annual festival Art+Communication held in Riga, the pioneering status of ELAB as the early developers of Net Art, the prix Ars Electronica ... -
Exhibition as Lab. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048, Documenta 13
Media archaeology has not been confined to theoretical and archival excavations to old media and media art history. Increasingly we have witnessed the emergence of media archaeological labs where analysis of media objects ... -
Fallout and Spinoffs: Commercializing the Art-Technology Movement
A common theme found in the hybrid practices of the 1960sera art & technology movement is practitioners’ engagement with industry and the marketplace. This talk explores facets of this interaction. My focus is the pursuit ... -
End Time: Apocalyptic Systems in Media Art and Design
In contemporary art, design, and architecture, generative, recombinatory or autopoetic aesthetics often come not from a space of openended possibility, but of hope against specific perceived crises or catastrophes. In ... -
Feasibility and Failure. Previously: Mechanography, Film and Education
Where does failure sit within the history of research creation and its contemporary elaboration? While the ‘object’, the ‘work’, and even the ‘accident’ have been explored and critiqued as significant concepts for producing ... -
An Improper Materialism: On Aesthesis, Synesthesia, and the Digital
The last five years have witnessed a considerable uptick in the exploration of digital materiality within media art practice and critique. This emerging area of research posits digital materiality as an irreconcilable ... -
Image-material-media - A philo-curatorial interrogation
Considering intersections of materiality, imageness and objecthood in contemporary art , with works of artists like Shilpa Gupta, Raqs Media Collective and others as instances, the paper will look at contemporary new media ... -
Henry Cowell and Dr. and Mrs Dower’s “Tonal Therapy”
In 1922 the American modernist composer, Henry Cowell published his first single-authored piece of writing. Entitled “Tonal Therapy” it was published in The Temple Artisan, a periodical of the Theosophical community of ... -
Instrumental Anthropocentrism: insects, sustainable culture and technological innovation
Recently, we have been witnessing an intensification of technoscientific research and innovations centered on insects. Insects are genetically modified to fight devastating diseases such as Dengue Fever or Malaria; their ... -
Franceso Mariotti: in pursuit of a hybrid ideal through art, media and nature
Not unlike the rest of the world, technological change has had farreaching effects on Latin America. During the early 20th Century, the impact of technology was on the social imaginary, nourishing artistic, narrative and ...