Exhibition of New Instruments

Digital Art and Crowd Creation in Iran (Case Study: Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition)

This paper aims to show the status of digital art in Iran and explain how the meaning of an artist has transformed in the digital age. The primary assumption of this paper is that the experience of digital art has again revived the collective experience in creating arts. Although, interactivity is considered to be the most important quality of digital art, their collective, collaborative and pr...

Exhibition of Instruments

" New Performance Tools : Technologies / Interactive Systems ”

The international Think Tank on “New Performance Tools: Technologies / Interactive Systems” was a weekend research laboratory and took place January 25-27, 2002, in Columbus, Ohio, under the umbrella of the new “Interactive Performance Series” in OSU’s Dance and Technology program. Its aim was to bring together a small group of professional artists with established practices to explore the prac...

Reappropriating Museum Collections: Performing Geology Specimens and Meterology Data as New Instruments for Musical Expression

In this paper we describe an artistic response to a collection of natural history museum artefacts, developed as part of a residency with an arts organisation. Drawing on a critical literature in studies of material culture, the work incorporated data sonification, image audification, field recordings and created a number of instruments for exploring geological artefacts and meterological data ...

BOGEN Munich 1912 . A Museum of Technology Writes Art History

The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of Masterworks in the Natural Sciences and Technology) in Munich was established in 1906. lts very name is indicative: unlike museums of industry, an older type, the new institution sought not only to foster the public's interest in technology and the sciences, but also to spur the creation of new masterwork...