ISEA2015: [Session 35] Evaluation and Valuation

ISEA2015: The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

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[Session 35] Evaluation and Valuation

David R. Burns. The Economic Valuation of Digital Media Art [View Short Paper]

Russell Richards. Responsive Environments and Protagonism: The Sustenance Principle [View Short Paper]

Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. “The Value of Art” – Transforming User Attention into Monetary Value in a Series of Interactive Artworks [View Short Paper]

Gerald Nestler. Enhancing/ Embracing Resolution. A few thoughts on a techno-imaginative toolbox and its potential for art as — and beyond — critique [View Short Paper]

Andrew Newman and Matthias Tarasiewicz. Experiments in art and value: burning Bitcoins to buy Ai Weiwei [View Short Paper]

Moderators

Christiane Paul

Associate Prof | Associate Dean, The New School, School of Media Studies

Christiane Paul is Associate Prof. and Associate Dean at the School of Media Studies, The New School, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (forthcoming Blackwell-Wiley); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015) Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and... Read More →

Presenters

David R. Burns

Associate Professor | Digital Media Arts + Animation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

David R. Burns is a digital media artist and publishing scholar who explores the relationships between humans, technology, and nature in his creative-research. More specifically, he focuses on the tensions between technology, culture, and nature in the public and private spheres; mediating memory and postmemory; and participatory self-expression through visual music. Burns takes an interdisciplinary approach to creating digital media art by... Read More →

laurent mignonneau

Gerald Nestler

Gerald Nestler is an artist and writer focusing on a reading of what he terms the “derivative condition” of contemporary life, in which financial(izing) strategies, methods and narratives form a world-producing apparatus that shapes the present by preconfiguring the future. At the same time, he is working on an "aesthetics of resolution" to develop potential counter-strategies which center around the figure of the renegade—a traitor... Read More →

Andrew Newman

PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales

Andrew Newman is an artist and researcher based between Sydney and Vienna. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. He has been researching cryptocurrencies at the Artistic Technology Lab at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2013 and is currently investigating artistic knowledge production as a PhD candidate at the National... Read More →

Russell Richards

Senior Lecturer, Southampton Solent University

I have interests across the fields of interactive audio-visuals and responsive environments. I have created net art, interactive audio-visual performances, interactive audio-visual installations, experimental linear video, and work in a variety of other formats. I am a member of KikiT VisuoSonic Research Group., for which I have created hundreds of Interactive apps. I have also created Android apps, worked with Kinect and Leap Motion and... Read More →

Christa Sommerer

Professor and Head of Interface Cultures Depatment at Art University in Linz Austria/Guest Professor at Aalborg Universi, Unversity of Art in Linz, Austria and Aalborg University, Denmark

Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist, researcher and pioneer of interactive art. Currently she is a professor and head of the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. She is also a Obel Guest professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and at Guest Professor (Chaire International) together with Laurent Mignonneau at Université Paris 8 in Paris, France. Together with Laurent... Read More →

Matthias Tarasiewicz

Project Lead, University of Applied Arts

Matthias Tarasiewicz has been active as a researcher and technology theorist since the last millenium. Deeply involved in coding and decoding (both literally and figuratively) he researches in the fields of artistic technology, experimental publishing and cryptocurrencies. Tarasiewicz founded 'Artistic Bokeh' (an initiative to qualitatively explore, map and extend the electrosphere with parameters of artistic research and development), and also... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)

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