Note: This essay was written for the catalog that accompanied the exhibition: Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art. The exhibition was presented as part of Ars Electronica 1992, in Linz, Austria and was curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka. It consisted of a comprehensive, interactive display of vintage electronic tools for video and audio generation/processing from the 1960's ...

The shift to new paradigms in education pushed by new media has initiated a critical re-thinking of the way we talk of and practice teaching and learning which is still open. Some concepts of the Western educational tradition can be helpful in finding a new way of integrating IT in learning. This paper propose to consider knowledge as a relationship and shows how this provides helpful insights ...

The paper provides an insight into the changing nature of the learning process through the adoption of interactive new media solutions into a traditional University Campus. The use of software from Blackboard Inc. has provided the foundations for building both a complex and dynamic learning community at Huddersfield University Business School. The specific focus of the research project is on st...

Creating enhanced learning environments based on the opportunities offered by the Internet has become a hotly debated topic among educators. It is certainly true that many educational research and ICT projects have reported a variety of outcomes and lessons learned with regard to these powerful new media and how teachers can effectively integrate technology into learning and teaching, but there...

The Audiovisual Institute (http://www.iua.upf.es) is a research center of the Pompeu Fabra University, (http://www.upf.es) located in Barcelona and devoted to new media technologies. Apart from its main research activities, the Institute also promotes the production of experimental media art, being Music one its main focuses. In this report we present the main music research projects being carr...

Although recent research suggests that the selective nature of new media helps foster issue specialists, little empirical evidence has been documented, mostly due to theoretical and methodological limitations. Extending the concept of issue publics, the present study proposes a method to estimate the degree to which an individual is a specialistor a generalist-type citizen. Applying the method ...