Re:Trace Conference - Keynotes, Papers & Posters
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Establishing Established: Reversed Remediation in Broersen and Lukács’ ‘Establishing Eden’
Artists Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács, reveal the way the New Zealand landscape is appropriated by Hollywood movies such as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit.’ In Establishing Eden (2016), the viewer becomes ... -
Monument as Archive: artistic strategies from anti- to meta-memorial
In Kluszczynski's talk, he will address the issue of art that challenges colonization of social consciousness and collective memory. He will focus on selected works of Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sanja Iveković, and Masaki Fujihata ... -
Facebook’s MPK20 Headquarters by Frank Gehry
Facebook engaged renowned architect Frank Gehry for the design of a new headquarter building in Silicon Valley in 2012 that was completed in 2015. The 40,000 sqm large office building called MPK20 (short for Menlo Park ... -
Crowd and Art - Kunst und Partizipation im Internet
(transcript, 2017-02)What can be contributed to a networked reality by art resulting from involvement by “others,” and what does this have to do with knowledge or non-knowledge? Working at the nexus of art theory, cultural studies, media studies ... -
You have been processed! Exploring Early Artists’ & Engineers’ Collaborations with Video Processing Machines
In a recent Atlantic magazine article called “Our Bots, Ourselves”, science writer Matthew Hutson describes how Artificial Intelligence will change our lives. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/our-bots ... -
Yima: A Proposition for Archiving Cultural Heritage Through Objects Rather Than Human Subjectivity
This paper introduces the Yima Project, initiated by FH Salzburg, V2 and marart.org, that has the ambitious aim of de-anthropocentralising subjective histories for objective futures, by showing events through objects, ... -
The World, Another 24 Hours: Practice-Based Research and the works of Robert Adrian X & Bill Bartlett
In 1982, Robert Adrian X, Bill Bartlett, and a host of artists staged a worldwide telecommunications performance entitled “The World in 24 Hours” «Die Welt in 24 Stunden». In it,16 different timezones connected to the Ars ... -
When "new media art" became the solution to endow cultural identity to its community? - the history of new media art in South Korea since 1980s
Since the beginning of Venice Biennale was to revitalize the city, many cultural events are required to devote the revitalization of a coutnry, or a cuty where they are held. In South Korea, there have been lots of "new ... -
The Vasulka Chamber and Media Art in Iceland
In October 2014 the Vasulka Chamber opened at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. The “chamber” is founded on a donation from the video art pioneers, Steina and Woody Vasulka, both Icelandic citizens that have ... -
Understanding Media Art as Cybernetic-Existentialism
This audio-visual paper offers a Re-Trace and reboot of two disciplinary fields that some consider outdated and defunct, by proposing a bold aesthetic theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism. It argues that throughout the ... -
Training in the complex adaptive systems of media art: A critique of the mythologies of art and interdisciplinary learning in higher ed
Based on a meta-study into the mythologies and ideological commonplaces that have shaped the pedagogies and curricular structures for training media artist at the university (a critical discourse analysis of 102 articles, ... -
The Trace in Digital Interactive work. A rethinking between identification and “technique of the self”
Few thoughts on interactive action highlight the importance of the trace in the relationship which links us to our interactive digital environment. First, the question of trace will be rethink from the aspect of identification, ... -
Towards an alternative history of Sound Art and Electronic Music: Carmen Barradas and Jaqueline Nova (1888-1975).
This paper addresses a critical gap in the global histories of media arts by investigating the life and work of two Latin American female composers whose career paths traversed well known global networks of music and ... -
Toward Greenness Studies: Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings
This paper demonstrates the urgent need for interdisciplinary greenness studies that engage philosophy, art, art history, science and technology studies, the natural and the medical sciences, in order to fruitfully critique ... -
Theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
There exists a copious literature on social media, including visual-driven ones like Instagram. Researchers, however, only use Instagram as a database to retrieve visual or cultural data to study their subjects of interest. ... -
Teresa Burga: a pioneer multimedia and information artist
This paper aims to analyze the work of Teresa Burga (Iquitos, Peru, 1935), as a multimedia artist whose conceptual pieces from the late 1960s and 1970s position her as a precursor of media art, information-based art, and ... -
Techno-Organic Practices in the Nordic Art
Title: Techno-Organic Practices in the Nordic Art. The paper presents recent artistic works from Nordic countries that exemplify a technology-infused mindset that is dominating our (humans) relationship towards ... -
Technical phantasmagorias: the phantom-effect of moving images
It will be through its technical dimension that phantasmagoria will assume itself as a modern concept, (re)emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, enunciated, for example by Walter Benjamin, as an altered ...
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