Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 On the Couch – Capturing Audience Experience. A Case Study on Paul Sermon’s ‘Telematic Vision’ The thesis is a contribution to current debates on preservation strategies for electronic media artworks and is based on a case study on Paul Sermon’s interactive networked installation Telematic Vision (1993 – ). It thematises a shift from object-centered and […]
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Transparency, Cognition and Interactivity By Brigitta Zics
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Transparency, Cognition and Interactivity: Toward a New Aesthetic for Media Art This practice-based thesis undertakes research into the contemporary aesthetic of interactive media art, in order to propose a useful practical model of interactivity founded on a critical approach to both existing theory and practice. It proceeds from the identification of a primary lack in […]
Synthetics by Stephen Jones
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Synthetics: an Archaeology of the Electronic Image in Australia, 1955-1975 This thesis primarily traces the development and use of electronic technologies in Australian visual art, and to a lesser extent dance and electronic music. The thesis examines the cultural and technological layers of the arts in Australia, building up an understanding of the local context […]
XLIIIrd AICA CONGRESS Leonardo Review
XLIIIrd AICA CONGRESS The Relations between Art and Science: Complicity, Criticality, Knowledge AICA 1949 – 2009 Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland 26-31 October, 2009 Congress website: Aica Congress Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy Artist and Visiting Scholar NYU levy@nyc.rr.com Many would challenge the premise of AICA’s 2009 Congress that “Art and Science has become firmly rooted across artistic disciplines.” The visibility […]
Unitxt Leonardo Review
Unitxt by Alva Noto Rasta Noton, Chemnitz, Germany, 2008 CD, RASTER095CD, 19.00 euros Distributor’s website: Raster-Norton Reviewed by Hannah Drayson University of Plymouth, UK hannah.drayson@plymouth.ac.uk Unitxt is made from sonic artefacts harvested from digital files: buzzes, pops, all frequencies of digital noise that converge to sketch a tortured anatomy of a sound card. The album at first seems noteworthy because […]