• Green's art: new media aesthetics in pre- and post- election events in Iran. 

      Ansari, Amin
      Published 2013-01-01
      Digital media has played a very significant role in anti-government protests in the Middle East (in Iran, Egypt, Syria and so on) over the last four years It has changed the rules of political struggle and established new ...
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    • Cine-installation metabook.1: the book of Luna. 

      Waite, Clea T.; Fenton, Lauren
      Published 2013-01-01
      The MetaBook is a transmedia concept that bridges the analog and the digital by introducing a cinematic and interactive dimension to the physical object of the book. MetaBook.1: The Book of Luna is the first realization ...
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    • Resistance is feral: digital culture, community arts, and the new cultural gatekeepers. 

      Shea, Pip
      Published 2013-01-01
      The Community Arts sector in Australia has a history of resistance. It has challenged hegemonic culture through facilitating grassroots creative production, contesting notions of artistic processes, and the role of the ...
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    • A thousand tiny interfacings: fertile acts of resistance. 

      Goodman, Andrew
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper examines the process of interfacing between organic and technical objects and how this might be utilized as a tactic to promote invention within new media art events. Raphael Lozano-Hemmer's Relational Architecture ...
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    • Learning to dance with a human. 

      McCormick, John; Vincs, Kim; Nahavandi, Saeid; Creighton, Douglas
      Published 2013-01-01
      Artificial neural networks are an effective means of allowing software agents to learn about and filter aspects of their domain. In this paper we explore the use of artificial neural networks in the context of dance ...
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    • Dérive in the digital grid, breaking the search to get lost. 

      Psarras, Bill; Pitsillides, Stacey; Maragiannis, Anastasios
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper seeks to explore whether the psychogeographic technique of dérive can be used to break out of the directed pattern of 'search to find' in the online space following from Lev Manovich's con-cept of the Poetics ...
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    • Art, mediation and contemporary art emergent practices. 

      Jefferies, Janis
      Published 2013-01-01
      The emergence of new, social and creative media practices has added to a disciplinary mash up, drawing participants from, amongst others, computer science, engineering, visual arts, science studies, literature, philosophy, ...
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    • The situational library. 

      Simionato, Andy
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper introduces the ongoing series of itinerant participatory artworks called the Situational Library. Through the construction of a publicly accessible and open-source archive of physical and digital books, the ...
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    • Interactive drama in real and virtual worlds. 

      Aylett, Ruth
      Published 2013-01-01
      How do we resolve the paradox of computer-supported interactive drama - that the human participant requires the very freedom to interact that the authored narrative structure denies them? This paper reports work around the ...
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    • Shivering domains: technologically mediated embodiment and ecologies. 

      Adams, Patricia
      Published 2013-01-01
      This article examines contemporary developments in the biomedical and ecological sciences and their impact on hybrid art practices in relation to the 'shivering domains' of cross disciplinary discourses and biotechnological ...
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    • Breathe - wearing your air. 

      Anderson, Benedict; Diniz, Nancy
      Published 2013-01-01
      Breathe – the air we wear proposes wearable and mobile technologies for reading and rendering in real time the air we breathe. The project proposes the ‘actioning’ for better air quality through individuals’ capacity to ...
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    • Hidden topology of life: life and space. 

      Hoffmann-Dietrich, Joanna
      Published 2013-01-01
      Taking into account a variety of contemporary definitions of life, I propose to focus on relations between complex systems of life processes and the evolution of our perception and concepts of space. My investigations are ...
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    • Intimate Disavowal: Turning Away from Technological Media Art. 

      Bunt, Brogan
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper describes a personal turn away from technological media art towards modes of practice that involve walking based interaction with the local environment. However, rather than stressing areas of difference, I ...
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    • Cloud music: a cloud system. 

      Randerson, Janine
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper suggests that artworks such as Yoko Ono's Sky TV (1966), Hans Haacke's Condensation Cube (1963-65), and David Behrman, Robert Watts and Bob Diamond's Cloud Music (1974-79) are ancestors to a significant strand ...
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    • Making worlds in art and science fiction. 

      Barikin, Amelia
      Published 2013-01-01
      Why do some artists make worlds while others make works? This article considers the renewed attention to world-making as a key trope in contemporary artistic practice in relation to the world-making tactics of science ...
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    • Celebra. 

      Laurenzo, Tomas; Clark, Christian
      Published 2013-01-01
      In this paper we present Celebra, a massive, site-specific, interactive installation comprising two hundred balloons, LEDs, custom electronics, and custom software. The artwork allows for different interaction modes: ...
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    • The hacking monopolism trilogy. 

      Ludovico, Alessandro; Cirio, Paolo
      Published 2013-01-01
      The three artworks of the Hacking Monopolism Trilogy are Face to Facebook, Amazon Noir and GWEI-Google Will Eat Itself. These works have much in common in terms of both methodologies and strategies. They all use custom ...
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    • Mirroring Sherry Turkle: a discussion on authenticity humanity and technology. 

      Jefferies, Janis; Maragiannis, Anastasios; Pitsillides, Stacey; Velonaki, Mari
      Published 2013-01-01
      This paper expresses a reflective approach to the themes and issues surrounding Sherry Turkle's new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. This can be seen as the culmination of ...
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    • Openpaths: empowering personal geographic data. 

      House, Brian
      Published 2013-01-01
      OpenPaths, created by the New York Times Company R&D Lab, is a platform that demonstrates the collective value of personal data sovereignty. It was developed in response to public outrage regarding the location record ...
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    • Aspects of the art/science equation - media art meeths high energy physics. 

      Henschke, Chris
      Published 2013-01-01
      In this paper the argument is made that formal and methodological relationships exist between media art and particle physics. This argument is supported by examples from artist-in-residence projects undertaken by Chris ...
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