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2. Poučevanje medijske arheologije : od-učenje in ponovna predstava o zgodovinskem jazuEszter Polónyi, 2024, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Opis: The media archaeologist has been called an experimenter (Fickers and van den Oever), a circuit-bender (G Hertz and Jussi Parikka), a “thinkerer” (Ted Nelson, Lori Emerson, Erkki Huhtamo). With reluctance, sometimes media archaeologists self-designate as a “media/historians.” Rarely does the media archaeologist refer to themselves as “students” of media. However, several texts have appeared recently that suggest that media archaeology as a field is inherently pedagogic, in the sense that it presumes experiential, speculative, and embodied forms of knowledge acquisition (Fickers and van den Oever; Patrick Ellis and Colin Williamson, Wanda Strauven). This paper follows on the call by recent media archaeologists like Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever for a sensorially-engaged encounter with media artifacts. It suggests that, through such methods of experiment and re-enactment, media archaeology might represent a kind of un-learning of toxic subject positions embedded in media technologies themselves. Making the historical self into the field’s most important, but repressed, medium, the paper argues that media archaeology might be indispensable to historical writing because it presents historians and students of history with an opportunity to radically reimagine the self (Michel Foucault, Peter Galison, Claudia Rankine). (ARIS J7-3158, Sustainable Digital Preservation of the Slovenian New Media Art) Ključne besede: media archaeology, experimental pedagogy, critical theory Objavljeno v RUNG: 09.10.2024; Ogledov: 447; Prenosov: 2 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
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4. Cinema as citizenship: practices of mis(re)cognition on the fringes of Europe : lecture at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, SCMS, Boston, March 14-17, 2024Eszter Polónyi, 2024, prispevek na konferenci brez natisa Opis: This paper comes out of a book project examining the emergence of identity recognition practices in the first half of the twentieth century, that is, during the period leading up to the visual (de)construction of identity in a manner no longer verifiable by the human eye. Its focus is on the filmic representation of early institutions of photographic identification and their tactical subversion through fraud, plastic surgery, masks, identity theft, as well as visual occlusions occurring at the level of cinematography, such as techniques of blocking, framing, magnifying, and editing as described by Balázs in his film theory. The paper focuses on practices of opacity and mis(re)cognition such as are practiced specifically by central and east European practitioners in exile, including in the films of Bela Balázs, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt. Ključne besede: film and media studies, east central European regional studies, migration studies Objavljeno v RUNG: 09.10.2024; Ogledov: 408; Prenosov: 0 Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
5. Sustainable digital preservation of new media artNarvika Bovcon, Eszter Polónyi, Jaka Železnikar, Aleš Vaupotič, 2023, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: This paper is about two pilot studies conducted in 2022 that aimed to develop a model for preserving and archiving new media art work in the context of a research project on the sustainable digital preservation of new media art that is being co-hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. As the works of art selected for the study by Slovenian new media art pioneers Vuk Ćosić (2000) and Srečo Dragan (2005) were technically obsolete or non-functional by the time of the study, the question of how to bring the artworks back into existence and what components of each artwork to include in the collection and preservation process constituted one aspect of our research. But this process of reconstruction also raised questions about how the preservation of media art is reshaping the practice of archiving within an institution whose holdings were, until recently, largely in traditional mediums. An interdisciplinary approach addressed the problem from different points of view, involving the practitioners, experts from art-history, museology, computer science, media theory and intellectual property rights. Ključne besede: digital cultural heritage, new media art preservation, new media art archives Objavljeno v RUNG: 28.05.2024; Ogledov: 1210; Prenosov: 10 Celotno besedilo (5,46 MB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
6. Bodies of noise at the Bell Laboratories : early automated speech recognition, contribution at the Editorial Workshop - A Special Issue on Acoustic Space, November 9-10, 2022, Frankfurt/MainEszter Polónyi, 2022, druga izvedena dela Opis: This paper is about the first automated systems developed to recognize identity. While automated recognition in the twenty-first century is widely associated with images of the human face, its roots are to be found in attempts to visualize identity in other, non-figural types of trace left by human bodies, ranging as widely as shadows, astrological signs, handwriting, the prints left by palms and fingers and the acoustics of the human voice. This paper investigates one such system of recognition as it emerged from within the telecommunications industry context in the midcentury U.S. Ostensibly built to reduce human labor and cable bandwidth, Bell Labs developed three different phone devices in the 1950s to photograph, formalize and analyze the sounds of speech as they traveled through the telephony system. And while the device called “Audrey” indeed succeeded in recognizing spoken digits, it was its failure to recognize the speech contents without prior awareness of the identity of the speaker, that is to distinguish between the individuality of the speaking “medium” and their intended meaning, that arguably made the experiment a landmark in the history of machine-driven recognition. Accounting for the “noise” made by the body and the environment from which sound emanated into the device, which the lab’s technicians defined as ranging from “speech defects” to “inflection” and “background interference” proved more important than phonetic analysis in determining the intended message of given speech spectogram. Similarly to a range of experiments with noise by formalist filmmakers such as Tony Conrad, John Cage, Kurt Kren and others, it was on the principle of contingency and irreproducible uniqueness that Bell Lab technicians sought to train machine-driven intelligence. Ključne besede: History of computer science, machine learning, Bell Labs, history of telecommunications, sound studies Objavljeno v RUNG: 19.02.2024; Ogledov: 1324; Prenosov: 8 Celotno besedilo (31,80 MB) |
7. Expedition content (2020) - Contexts and the politics of listening (workshop) : lecture at the Visible EvidenceXXIX /FilmForumXXX, Udine, September 7, 2023Eszter Polónyi, Irina Leimbacher, Engelke Henning, Ilisa Barbash, Veronika Kusumaryati, 2023, prispevek na konferenci brez natisa Ključne besede: postcolonialism, avant-garde and experimental art, sound studies, media studies Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.02.2024; Ogledov: 1393; Prenosov: 11 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
8. Faceless machines: early recognition media and entangled bodies : lecture at the "Relatifs" lecture series, Kepler Salon, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreich, 16. 1. 2024Eszter Polónyi, 2024, predavanje na tuji univerzi Opis: Eszter Polonyis Vortrag behandelt frühe Systeme automatisierter Identitätserkennung. Einen Fokus bilden Experimente zur Stimmerkennung, wie sie in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts von US-amerikanische Telekommunikationsunternehmen unternommen wurden. Sie geht dabei auch den Verbindungen zur Arbeit mit „noise“ von Medienkünstler*innen nach, darunter Tony Conrad, John Cage und Kurt Kren. Ključne besede: media studies, surveillance studies, art history, critical data studies, avant-garde and experimental art Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.02.2024; Ogledov: 1575; Prenosov: 8 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
9. An archaeology of photographic identification : lecture at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, 13. 4. 2023Eszter Polónyi, 2023, prispevek na konferenci brez natisa Opis: This project returns to an early moment in the history of photographic IDs to better understand the current entrapment of our identities within what are by now massive infrastructures of automatized, unregulated and largely unauthorized identity extraction. Ključne besede: media studies, surveillance studies, history of art, history of visual culture, cultural studies Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.02.2024; Ogledov: 1525; Prenosov: 3 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
10. Sustainable digital preservation of the new media artAleš Vaupotič, Eszter Polónyi, Narvika Bovcon, Jaka Železnikar, 2023, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Ključne besede: media studies, art history, new media art, archival studies, restoration studies, museum studies Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.02.2024; Ogledov: 2260; Prenosov: 9 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |