Nicolas Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5891349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nicolas Holt: [email protected]. PhD thesis, McGill University, 2022. |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5755-2813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tracing-at-a-Distance, or a Meaningful Level of Radioactivity
This article argues that radioisotopes – atoms with unstable nuclei which undergo decay and become detectable against less energised backgrounds – can be understood as a form of media, one that challenges the seeing-at-a-distance of the televisual with a ‘tracing-at-a-distance’ of radioactive decay. These energetic entities, largely released in the development and subsequent use of nuclear weapons, became indispensable tools for US ecologists dur…
Video between Architecture and Telepathy
On 6 January 1973, Chilean media artist Juan Downey exhibited Plato Now at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. A hybrid multichannel video installation and performance, this was Downey’s restaging of Plato’s Parable of the Cave—the “Now” registering what the myth might look like from the vantage of his own historical moment. And whereas Plato’s original operated through an inflexible division between the space of the mind and a deriv…
Top-Rated Labs Abstracts 2022
Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is a database of thesis abstracts (PhD, Master’s and MFA) on topics at the intersections of art, science, and technology. This English-language database was established at Pomona College (Claremont, CA). In addition to being published in the database, a selection of abstracts chosen by a peer review panel for their special relevance will be published annually in Leonardo journal and on the Leonardo website. Autho…
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Video between Architecture and Telepathy
On 6 January 1973, Chilean media artist Juan Downey exhibited Plato Now at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. A hybrid multichannel video installation and performance, this was Downey’s restaging of Plato’s Parable of the Cave—the “Now” registering what the myth might look like from the vantage of his own historical moment. And whereas Plato’s original operated through an inflexible division between the space of the mind and a deriv…
Top-Rated Labs Abstracts 2022
Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is a database of thesis abstracts (PhD, Master’s and MFA) on topics at the intersections of art, science, and technology. This English-language database was established at Pomona College (Claremont, CA). In addition to being published in the database, a selection of abstracts chosen by a peer review panel for their special relevance will be published annually in Leonardo journal and on the Leonardo website. Autho…
Tracing-at-a-Distance, or a Meaningful Level of Radioactivity
This article argues that radioisotopes – atoms with unstable nuclei which undergo decay and become detectable against less energised backgrounds – can be understood as a form of media, one that challenges the seeing-at-a-distance of the televisual with a ‘tracing-at-a-distance’ of radioactive decay. These energetic entities, largely released in the development and subsequent use of nuclear weapons, became indispensable tools for US ecologists dur…
Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 work)