Laura McGough

United States (residence) °1962
research interests: Media Art, Liveness, New Media
affiliation: Visiting Professor, Alfred University
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Laura McGough is a media art historian, curator,  and educator.  She has organized exhibitions, screenings, performances and streaming content for arts organizations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia focusing on emerging technologies, gender and experimental cinematic + media arts practices.

She received an M.A. degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from New York University and  a PhD in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. McGough teaches contemporary and media art history at Alfred University. Her current research focuses on the turn to liveness within contemporary cinema and media arts.

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research expositions (collaborated)

  • Responsive Aesthetics: Remediating Digital-to-Analog Television Converters as Artist Tools (2018) author(s): Eric Souther, Laura McGough, Jason Bernagozzi published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    “Responsive Aesthetics: Remediating Digital-to-Analog Television Converters as Artist Tools” documents the research process undertaken to explore the reanimation of a digital-to-analog television converter box as an artistic tool for intervention with the digital broadcast image through real-time datamoshing. We define datamoshing as an exploitation and interruption of the algorithms that comprise high quality digital streaming video, resulting in the visual distortion and alteration of the image. Our goal was to create a responsive datamoshing system that would not only modulate and distort the incoming broadcast image, but also provide artists with a level of control over these variations. We approached this process as artists, rather than technologists. Inspired by a specific visual or aesthetic result, we would reflect on how this result was achieved technically and then experiment with other methods that might offer further enhancement. The final result was the creation of a responsive datamoshing tool for use in exhibition or performance, both on its own or in combination with other systems (i.e., software, apps, image processing machines).
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