Cicero Inacio da Silva
With the digital technologies, the issue of the frame, the border and the margin is being rewritten in a rather interesting way.
The importance of the borders may be observed particularly in the visual arts and literature. In the history of art, as an unfolding of a visual historicity, the theme has generated […]
Darko Fritz
Beginning in 1964, Vladimir Bonacic worked in the Croatian National Research Institute Ruder Boskovic in Zagreb, where he headed the Laboratory of Cybernetics from 1969 to 1973. He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 in the field of pattern recognition and hidden data structures. In 1968 he began his artistic career under the auspices of […]
by María Fernández
Gordon Pask was unique in the intellectual landscape of the United Kingdom after World War II. He was one of the major figures in British cybernetics (along with Ashby, Beer, George, and Walter) and an active theatrical designer and producer. Pask was influential in various art-related fields including art installation, architecture and […]
by Edward A. Shanken
Guest-editor
The following essays are based on papers from the panel discussion, “Media Art Histories: Times and Landscapes II” at REFRESH! First International Conference on Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, held at the Banff New Media Institute, September 28 – October 1, 2005. Although conference participant Tim Druckery noted that […]
Bits, Parasites and the Media Ecology of Network Culture
Jussi Parikka
“Organisms are adapted to their environments, and it has appeared adequate to say of them that their organization represents the ‘environment’ in which they live […].”[1]
Humberto Maturana
Prologue: The Biology of Digital Culture
During the past few decades, biological creatures like viruses, worms, bugs and bacteria seem […]
Oliver Grau
This is what it’s about: Hundreds of names of artists, thousands of artworks, art trends, theory of media art in keywords, presented in an enormous huge circle (please visit http://www.asa.de/research/kontext ). (1) Thirty-two slices are offered as a subdivision into themes, like representation, emotion and synaesthesia, the material issue in art, […]
Interview with Natalie Bookchin , by Pau Waelder
(spanish)
Natalie Bookchin is a net artist who has been working on online projects since the early days of net.art. An active creator and lecturer, she has worked (among others) with Alexei Shulgin, the RTMark collective, and exhibited her work in several museums and institutions in the USA […]
Giaco Shiesser
(spanish)
It is in times of major social upheaval or crises that the dispositifs of ruling sovereignty become questionable – politically, legally, philosophically. The existing apparatus proves to be porous, and new plans have yet to be made. This applies to the present era of post-Fordist globalization, in which for some theorists the historical […]
