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Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel: All New Media Is Old Media

Cory Arcangel is a contemporary American post-conceptual multimedia artist who works in a range of mediums such as music, drawing, painting, video, performance art, software and video game modifications, for which he’s best known. Arcangel often relies on appropriation of pop cultural constructions, specifically those found online. His art inspects the relationship between technology and …

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Interactive Virtual Art As An Aesthetic Experience Of The Future, Between Accessibility And Gamification

Scope of the Problem When considering interactive virtual experiences, especially video games, I would like to pinpoint major research topics or goals, which, in my opinion, are neglected to some degree in a cultural discourse in Poland, especially in the academic environment. These are: ●  The study of the interactive medium as an artistic and …

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Sounds Of The Metaverse: A Brief History of Virtual Reality Music Instruments and Virtual Music Venues

Introduction In 1932 Antonin Artaud published “Theatre of cruelty” manifesto. It was the first time when the phrase “virtual reality” was ever used. It described how Artaud thought about the new format of modern theatre. In Artaud’s manifesto there is a passage concerning musical instruments: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: They will be treated as objects and as …

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Jakub Wroblewski Panopticon VR

Visual Transhumanism, Hybrid Realities and Immersion Traps: Sketch to the Index of Polish Artists

The Emergence of Digital Reality on the Polish Scene I will attempt to outline a juxtaposition of contemporary Polish activities and artistic projects which combine the use of current tools such as 3D, photogrammetry gaming engines, virtual and augmented reality, in the context of the search for authorial aesthetic values, new ways of building storytelling …

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What is Synthetic Media?

Introduction Synthetic media is an interconnected field of AI-generative media. This rapidly growing field is directly connected to generative adversarial networks. It is a modification of data by automated means. And even though it is mostly associated with the latest more popular implementations such as deepfakes it has a much wider spectrum including text to …

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Digital Georgia

  Digital Georgia is a research article where I will cover contemporary, new media projects, artists, and platforms that are shaping the digital arts climate in Georgia. The article will be updated and expanded with each new entry, so keep coming back. In-Between Conditions In-between Conditions is a Georgian independent, transdisciplinary platform of media art, …

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Jenkins Henry Convergence Culture

Convergence Culture

Henry Jenkins is a media scholar who coined the term “convergence culture”. He is the Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending more than a decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the …

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