FINAL REPORT Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. Media. Art. Research. In the research program of the LBI Media.Art.Research., interdisci pli­ narity becomes part of everyday practice. Its research projects combine competencies from the fields of art history, cultural studies, media theory, media technology, and computer science. The structure of the institute thus corresponds to the complexity and diversity of its main theme: media art. Beyond this specialized field, the LBI positions itself at the intersection of the dialogue between the “two cultures” of the humanities and cultural studies, on the one hand, and the natural and technological sciences, on the other. The first part of the report presents the concept and the research pro­ gram of the Institute, as well as its events and publications. The indivi­ dual research projects are then introduced according to five topics, which constitute the basic elements of a methodology of media art research. LBI Media.Art.Research. Page 5 Partners of the Institute Page 12 A Picture of the Institute in Numbers Page 14 Workshops, 2005 – 2009 Page 15 Conferences, 2005 – 2009 Page 21 Media.Art.Research Award, 2007 – 2009 Page 29 Publications and Lectures Page 34 Team Page 48 Cooperations Page 51 Research Projects Page 52 1 LBI Media.Art.Research. ................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Mission Statement..................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 The Three Research Lines of the Institute ................................................................................. 8 1.3 Five Topics on the Methodology of Media Art Research ........................................................ 10 2 Partners of the Institute ................................................................................................................. 12 3 A Picture of the Institute in Numbers / Projects with Outside Funding ......................................... 14 4 Workshops, 2005–2009 .................................................................................................................. 15 4.1 Survival and Maintenance of Media-Based Art ....................................................................... 15 4.2 Placing and Re-placing Media Art ............................................................................................ 16 4.3 Online Archives of Media Art Contextualization, Metadata, Translation ............................... 17 4.4 The Scent of Information ......................................................................................................... 18 4.5 Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies / GAMA Launch ................................................. 19 5 Conferences, 2005–2009 ................................................................................................................ 21 5.1 Digital Archives ........................................................................................................................ 21 5.2 When Cybernetics Meets Aesthetics....................................................................................... 21 5.3 The Return of Wireless Imagination: One Hundred Years of Radio ........................................ 23 5.4 Closeness vs. Dislocation: Contextualizing Net-Based Art ...................................................... 25 5.5 Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art ................................................................................ 26 5.6 See This Sound: Sound-Image Relations in Art, Media, and Perception ................................. 27 5.7 The LBI Salon ........................................................................................................................... 28 6 Media.Art.Research Award, 2007–2009 ........................................................................................ 29 6.1 Media.Art.Research Award 2007: Net-based Art Forms ......................................................... 29 6.1 Media.Art.Research Award 2008: Interactive Art Forms ........................................................ 31 6.3 Media.Art.Research Award 2009: Sound-Image Relations in Audiovisual Art ........................ 32 7 Publications and Lectures ............................................................................................................... 34 7.1 Publications from the Institute ................................................................................................ 34 7.1.1 Artists as Inventors, Inventors as Artists .............................................................................. 34 7.1.2 Re-Inventing Radio ............................................................................................................... 35 7.1.3 Netpioneers 1.0: Contextualizing Early Net-based Art ......................................................... 36 7.1.4 Audiovisuology. Compendium. An Interdisciplinary Compendium of Audiovisual Culture . 36 7.1.5 Audiovisuology. Essays. Histories, and Theories of Audiovisual Media and Art .................. 37 7.1.6 See This Sound. Promises in Sound and Vision, Exhibition Catalogue ................................. 38 7.1.7 Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art ................................................................................. 38 7.1.8 Ars Electronica Operating System ........................................................................................ 39 2 LBI-MKF | final report 2009 7.2 Essays ....................................................................................................................................... 39 7.3 lectures .................................................................................................................................... 42 8 Team ............................................................................................................................................... 48 9 Cooperations .................................................................................................................................. 51 Topic I. ARCHIVING ............................................................................................................................ 52 1 SAMY – Single Point of Access Semantic Media Repository Framework ................................... 53 2 Preservation of the Material and Data Stock of the Ars Electronica.......................................... 55 Topic II. INDEXING ............................................................................................................................. 57 1 Metadata in the context of online databases ............................................................................ 58 2 Taxonomies for Media Art .......................................................................................................... 60 3 Applied Basic Research: “netzpioniere.at” ................................................................................. 62 Topic III. ANALYSIS and CONTEXTUALIZATION .................................................................................. 65 1 Discourse Analysis: Ars Electronica Operating System .............................................................. 66 2 Source Criticism: Work, Replica and Source. Art Historical Contexts for Archiving, Documenting and Re-Presenting Net-Based Art Forms ....................................................................................... 68 3 Reception Aesthetics: The Aesthetics of Interactivity in Digital Art ........................................... 70 4 Reception Research Interactive Art I: Ideas about Production and the Reality of Reception in the Context of Ars Electronica 2007 .............................................................................................. 72 5 Reception Research Interactive Art II: Document Collections on Blast Theory, David Rokeby, Tmema ........................................................................................................................................... 74 Topic IV. VISUALIZATION ................................................................................................................... 76 1 Visualization Showcase: Information Visualization of Media Art Archives ................................ 77 2 Media Art as Social Process — Network Analysis of the Juries and Their Decisions ................. 78 3 X by Y: Ars Electronica Prix Submissions .................................................................................... 80 4 Textass: An annotated text browser/reader .............................................................................. 81 5 Texty – texts at a glance ............................................................................................................. 82 6 Proxemantics – meaning is in the air ......................................................................................... 83 7 Prix Landscape Interactive Art .................................................................................................... 84 8 Prix Submissions with Area......................................................................................................... 85 9 Synchronoptic Timeline .............................................................................................................. 86 10 Faceted Search Interactive Art ................................................................................................