The paper first discusses early work that predated internet art and that was concerned with active audience participation in electronic art and describes the path of development of the first author’s artworks that have looked at human to human communication through electronic (computer) systems from 1970 until today. The fundamental concept has been to make artworks that explore human communica...

Abstract This essay explores the theory of plastic object as it was developed by Peruvian art critic Mirko Lauer in 1970s and 1980s, dialogue with other ideas related to Teoría Social del Arte (Social Theory Art) Latin America. Focusing on cultural debate, author reconstructs Lauer’s trajectory emphasises his critique ‘Marxist aesthetics’, them conceptual tools for discussing horizon contempora...

The snake is a potent entity in many cultures across the world, and is a noticeable global theme in rock art and inscribed landscapes. We mobilise our long-term ethnographic research with southern African KhoeSan peoples to situate and interpret the presence of snake motifs in the region’s rock art. We contextualise the snake as a transformative ontological mediator between everyday and “entran...

When the borderline cases of art occur in non-art categories, debate artistic status arises not only with regard to individual but also category which they belong. The identity case tends be defined connection it belongs to. It formulate that, if is art, then entire and art. Such a view inevitably hampers works arising from categories. This article argues that their belonging categories need st...

A discussion paper was developed by a panel of experts of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) contributing to the on-going debate on the identification, assessment and management of endocrine disruptors with a view to protect wildlife according to the EU substance legislation (plant protection products, biocides, industrial chemicals). Based on a critical synthesis of the state-of-the-a...

Population-environment studies have implicitly permeated demography but only until the mid-20 century has the debate been rekindled and research expanded. This article reviews the origins and history of the population-environment debate and attempts to provide insight into the most recent approaches and methodology. Beginning with the most traditional relationships established between demograph...

Software patents and university-owned patents represent two of the more controversial intellectual property developments of the past 25 years. For the last few years, the European Union has been embroiled in a fierce debate over the merits of explicitly allowing software patents. In the U.S., where such patents clearly exist, various legal scholars have quarreled with the breadth of software pa...

The 2011 Varsity Medical Debate, between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, brought students and faculty together to discuss the waiving of patents for antiretroviral therapies in the developing world. With an estimated 29.5 million infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in low- and middle-income countries and only 5.3 million of those being treated, the effective and equitable distribu...

We thank Bushman and Huesmann (2013), Krah (2013), and Warburton (2013) for taking the time to comment on our review of digital game violence research. This is obviously a field where considerable controversy continues to exist and an opportunity for cordial debate could help resolve differences in the field. The current crop of comments run the gamut from keeping to reasonable points of disagr...