Browsing 3. Re:live 2009 by Title
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A New Performativity: Wearables and Body-Devices
In their relatively short history, wearables and body-devices have evolved from cyborg-like extensions and utilitarian solutions aimed at enhancing efficiency, to poetic representations and experiences that give form to ... -
A-Life: the creation and development of new modes of realism
This paper considers art and Artificial Life vis-à-vis the development and creation of new modes of realism. A brief sketch of the current conditions that underpin much in Artificial Life provides an alternative framework ... -
Abandon Normal Devices – they don’t seem to work
This institutional presentation of recent FACT programs including Human Futures. Climate for Change and Abandon Normal Devices (AND Festival), new forms of Cultural Leadership will be explored. This will also be an opportunity ... -
ARS ELECTRONICA re:shaping a city’s cultural identity
30 years ago the first Ars Electronica festival took place in Linz, Austria. Ars has grown to be one of the most influential Media Art festivals and centers worldwide. But while much has been written about it, and still ... -
Art-Science connections for the visualisation of minerals: historical precedents for media arts
The Making of Rocks: ‘By what furnaces of fire the adamant was melted, and by what wheels of earthquake it was torn, and by what teeth of glacier and weight of sea-waves it was engraven and finished into its perfect form, ... -
Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad Zuse
The Z3 computer made by Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin is described, paying attention in detail to the facts and inspirations related with the use of punched film as a store medium in that machine. The text has several ... -
Bush Video
Bush Video was a unique collaborative video operation running on an unconsciously anarchic model. It was the seminal organisation through which video in many of its forms was established in Australia. Established in 1973 ... -
Early Video Art as Private Performance
The adoption of video by artists responded to the affordance of immediacy and portability for the making of a motion picture recording. In the early 1970s in England, the potential of this facility was as novel as it was ... -
Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration
The use of scientific data to create artworks has always played an important part in the arts, and music has been no exception. The impact of developments such as electricity, the phonograph, the cassette recorder and the ... -
Erewhon: framing media utopia in the antipodes
Erewhon is a geographical location, a novel, and a fragment of our technological imaginary. Described by Samuel Butler as somewhere between nowhere and elsewhere, Erewhon provides a framework for understanding antipodean ... -
Executable Cinema: demos, screensavers and videogames as audiovisual formats
The digitisation of the multilayered cinematographic apparatus turns the cinematographic image into an extension of the projecting system, making the movie impossible to be separated from the rendering mechanism in both ... -
Haunted profiles; social networking sites and the crisis of death
How do perceptions of death shift or alter in relation to newly emerging technologies? In this paper I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely online memorials using social networking sites, through the looking-glass ... -
Histories of live meetings - case study: five conferences on computer-generated art and related theories in Zagreb, 1968 – 1978
Five international meetings of more than hundred artist and theoreticians of computer-based arts were held within the exhibition projects Tendencies 4 (1968 - 1969), Tendencies 5 (1973) and Tendencies 6 (1978) in Zagreb. ... -
Immediacy of Image – Image of Immediacy. Live Media Art in Japan between Tradition and Hypermodernity. An historical and contemporary View
In 1970, French philosopher Roland Barthes declared Japan as a model for a kind of system liberated from any (Western) signification-overload, at an important moment in time when art in the West as well as in the East began ... -
Lifebox Immortality & How We Got There
A paper in two parts. After a brief introduction from an art historian from the far future, a contemporary (2009) author discusses a near-future exosomatic technology called the lifebox. Unlike the dreams of the “hard” AI ... -
Nanoart: First Steps Beyond the Columns of Hercules
As in the last century, with all the “-isms” and other nouns and adjectives with which various artistic movements were described, both contemporaneously by the participants, and later by historians and critics, the term ...