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The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture.
A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as technology and as aesthetic idiom, as opportunity for creative initiatives and for critique, has become increasingly normative and doctrinaire.
Mediation and the new media arts have in fact become the new medium of critical and pedagogical discourse: like water is for fish, like culture is for cultural studies, mediation is a concept that is taken for granted now because it is itself the medium in which we think and act, in which we swim. We need a concept that is amphibian, and that can leave its medium. The concept we propose is a remediated apprehension of the image: an active image and activity of imaging beyond the boundaries of disciplinary definition, but also altering the relations of intermedia aesthetics and interdisciplinary pedagogy. This concept will need to incorporate a vibrant materialism of the image’s sensory and cognitive strata and an evanescent immaterialism of its affective qualities. Rather than locate our conference in the space of negotiation between disciplines or media (the “inter-“), we propose the opposition, transit and surpassing of the interdisciplinary by a “transdisciplinary aesthetics”, and its conceptual and physical practice of a “transdisciplinary imaging.”
The aim of the conference is to bring together artists, scholars, scientists, historians and curators. The conference will explore areas related to: Painting, Drawing, Film, Video, Photography, Computer visualization, Real-time imaging, Intelligent systems, Image Science. Participants were asked to address at least one of the following areas in their abstract:
• remediated image
• hypermediacy and the iconic character of the image
• politics of the image and/or image making in a transdisciplinary context
• life sciences and bioart in relation to the living image
• distributed and networked image
• table top scale to nano
• machines and computer vision
• perspectival image
• image as speculative research and critque
• illusion, process and immediacy
• aesthetics and the proliferation of imaging
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... 4
The Un-paintable Image: Gerhard Richter, Ethics and Representation 5
Darryn Ansted Curtin University of Technology ..................................... 5
Visualising Matter and Cosmologies: An Example Based on a
Transhistorical Approach ........................................................................15
Lucia Ayala Humboldt University of Berlin / Granada University ..........15
Dr. Jaime E. Forero-Romero Cosmology Group, Astrophysical Institute
Potsdam...................................................................................................15
Projecting the Audiovisual Object ...........................................................21
Lloyd Barrett Queensland University of Technology..............................21
Seeing Like a Robot: Augmented Reality Vision ....................................30
Kathy Cleland The University of Sydney ...............................................30
Take a Good Hard Look at Yourself: Autoscopia and the Networked
Image. ........................................................................................................40
Justin Clemens University of Melbourne ................................................40
Adam Nash RMIT .................................................................................40
Iconicity: the Medium of Miraculous Images..........................................52
Edward Colless Victorian College of the Arts ........................................52
Zwischenräume: The Machine as Voyeur ...............................................63
Petra Gemeinboeck College of Fine Arts, UNSW ..................................63
Rob Saunders University of Sydney .......................................................63
Compumorphic Art - The Computer as Muse ........................................72
Dr Ian Gwilt Sheffield Hallam University .............................................72
Painting in Transit: A re-mapping of painting’s changed terms of
reference. ...................................................................................................77
Stephen Little National Arts School, Sydney .........................................773
Imaging affect: abstraction and the echo of the unknowable.................82
Dr. Daniel Mafe Queensland University of Technology ........................82
Syzygy: gazing at shadows, darkly...........................................................91
Harry Nankin...........................................................................................91
New Imaging: Transdisciplinary Strategies For Art Beyond The New
Media .......................................................................................................103
Gavin Perin University of Technology Sydney.....................................103
Linda Matthews University of Technology Sydney ...............................103
The Transdisciplinary Potential of Remediated Painting.....................112
Anne Ring Petersen University of Copenhagen ....................................112
GROW: Visualising Nature at Nanoscale...............................................126
Erica Seccombe, Australian National University ................................126
Contemporary Hybrid Painting: The Aesthetics of a Post-Medium
Condition. ................................................................................................132
Dr Mark Titmarsh..................................................................................132
University of Technology, Sydney ........................................................132
After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality
..................140
Mitchell Whitelaw University of Canberra ...........................................14
Edited by
Su Baker Victorian College of the Arts
Paul Thomas University of New South Wales
Publication Compiled by Julian Stadon Curtin University
Review Panel:
Ross Harley, Julian Stadon, Brogan Bunt, Leon Marvel, Ted Colless, Mark Titmarsh, Brad Buckley, Daniel Mafe, Brogan Bunt, Kathy Cleland, Justin Clemens, Lloyd Barret, Erica Seccombe, Ernest Edmonds, Martyn Jolly, Julian Goddard, Petra Gemeinboek, David Thomas
Published by Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2010
Sydney, Australia
ISBN: 978-0-9807186-6-9
ISBN Agency ¡V Thorpe Bowker
Level 1, 607 St Kilda Rd Melbourne VIC 3004
2010. All papers copyright the authors
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