{"title":"Bringing Colonialism into the Frame: A Conversation with Heba Y. Amin","authors":"","doi":"10.59547/26911566.3.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.3.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"44 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114430509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonic Refusal: Indigenous Belongings without Soundtrack","authors":"","doi":"10.59547/26911566.2.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.2.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"16 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132497326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Map of a Sound as a Space: Christine Sun Kim’s (LISTEN) (2016)","authors":"","doi":"10.59547/26911566.2.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.2.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132804698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental Indices: Situational Assemblages of Facial Recognition","authors":"","doi":"10.59547/26911566.3.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.3.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“…the table was set, and we were never dead”: On the Persistence of Colonial Listening in Germany","authors":"Pedro J S Vieira de Oliveira","doi":"10.59547/26911566.2.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.2.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"A Series of Gaps Rather Than a Presence (2019) is a sound piece that critically inquires upon the persistence of modern/colonial listening practices in the recording and assessment of language, and more specifically of accent. The work is part of a long-term artistic and academic research project oriented at the use of so-called “accent recognition software” (sometimes “dialect recognition”) by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, hereafter BAMF) in asylum seeking processes of undocumented migrants since late 2017 ( Drucksache 19/190 ). The introduction of automated evaluation, as of this writing exclusive to Germany, replaces other, similarly questionable sociolinguistic methods for determining the origins of people without papers—a common procedure for asylum processes both in the European Union and the UK. 1 The use of software","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130367930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perilous Potential of the Blur: Digital Cultures Within Zones of Indistinction","authors":"","doi":"10.59547/26911566.4.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.4.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124708442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"teamLab Borderless: Bridging Borders in Simulated Ecologies","authors":"W. Haslem","doi":"10.59547/26911566.1.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.1.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"This article begins by identifying the ways that spatial borders were destroyed during Australia’s Black Summer fires. It then contrasts this with the opposite, the imposition of national and state borders as physical distancing is promoted as a way to counter the virulent spread of the COVID-19 virus. This radical transformation of actual borders is further contrasted with the intersecting virtual worlds in the museum teamLab Borderless (2018). teamLab Borderless is an immersive exhibition that features simulated worlds that are animated by human contact. They bleed outside of their designated zones, blurring spatial boundaries. teamLab Borderless draws from traditions in Japanese scroll art that invite the viewer to imagine themselves within the space, creating an ultra-subjective mode of engagement. This article takes Sybille Krämer’s philosophy of media, beginning with the postal and its insistence on the distance between sender and receiver, to explore the rituals surrounding teamLab Borderless . It then elaborates on the ways that the experience of teamLab Borderless can be understood in relation to Krämer’s personal, or erotic principle of communication. It applies these modes of communication to consider the potential of interactivity to mediate between the virtual and the natural world. Ultimately, this article posits that in a culture of climate emergency, an alternative future is one where our relationship to nature is necessarily virtual.","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114561233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Echoes in the Desert: Digging Out the Disappeared in the Digital Age","authors":"Irina R. Troconis","doi":"10.59547/26911566.1.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.1.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between new media, memory, and materiality, through an analysis that focuses on three digital projects: Marco Williams's The Map of the Undocumented, Ivonne Ramírez’s Ellas tienen nombre (“They have a name”), and John Craig Freeman’s Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos. These projects were developed in response to the migration crisis at the US/Mexico border and Ciudad Juárez’s feminicide. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by “thick mapping” and augmented reality, they locate and give visibility to the migrants who have died while crossing the Arizona desert ( The Map of the Undocumented and Border Memorial ), and to the hundreds of girls and women who have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez since 1985 ( Ellas tienen nombre ). Drawing from the works of Gabriel Giorgi, Judith Butler, Doreen Massey, and Avery Gordon, this article argues that the three projects store, mobilize, and memorialize “digital remains” that produce a form of spatial and temporal disorientation, complicating distinctions between presence and absence, materiality and immateriality, and proximity and distance. Through operations of haunting and re-membering, these remains make users “lose their grounding” and, in the process, become affected by others who, though anonymous, physically distant, missing and/or dead, feel familiar, proximate, and urgent. They thus shed light on new cartographic practices that productively reconfigure our understanding of memory, space, and global ethics, and that invite us to consider what a “geography of care and responsibility” could look like.","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117099637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Emergence and Emergencies: An Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Media, Materiality, and Emergency’","authors":"T. Barker","doi":"10.59547/26911566.1.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.1.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124650489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unreal: Imaginaries of Techno-colonialism","authors":"G. López, Hamilton Helle","doi":"10.59547/26911566.1.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.1.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128602617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}