White Cube: The Gallery Space Shaping

Rejecting the White Cube

It never quite seems right to place Russian artistic culture along the same lines of development as those in the West. Without endlessly musing over the involvement of some inconceivable Russian soul or national character, this paper aims to create a narrative for the development of contemporary Russian art exhibition. By looking at the historical and contemporary societal conditions surroundin...

Playtime in the White Cube

This thesis argues for the need to examine the user experience in video game play using the setting and methods of interactive art. It proposes to investigate the field of game art from a user perspective by situating it at the intersections of art, games and interactive media. It then gives a thorough depiction of the accompanying thesis project MOVE, an installation using computer vision and ...

A Reflection on Shaping the Virtual Space Based on Religious Values

This paper initially examines theories proposed by Feenberg abouttechnical systems and alternative modernity, analyzes his thoughts, andconcludes that a framework of values needs to be provided in shapingtechnical systems. In a society like Iran, where policy makers are looking forthe realization of Islamic values, this framework of values is derived fromIslam. To explain the relationship betwe...

The Role of the Viewer in the Gallery Space

Agora: Shaping Social Space from Information Space

Agora is a Java based client-server tool that provides for both synchronous and asynchronous communication within the context of a web page. Real-time text based ‘chat’ is augmented by shared news, personal mail, recent visitor history and user profiles.