Arts 1A An Overview of the Digital Media Arts Discipline
Media Arts | Digital Arts | New Media
An umbrella term covering a wide range of practices in which digital technologies are integrated into the artmaking process to create works of art. Digital Media implies the production of art with technological media.
Technology as Tool
Technology as Medium
Hybrid Media
Digital Medium Specificity
In dialogue with Science
Distinction needs to be made between the use of digital technologies in artmaking:
As a tool by which to enhance the practice of analog media: Writing, photography, painting, sculpture, film, sound, etc.
Technology as a medium where the artwork produced with the technology
produces a result that could not have been achieved without the
technology.
Due to the nature of art practice since the 1960's, and the fact that
digital technologies have entered the culture through the commercial market,
hybridization can occur at many levels: subject matter references, production
level, aesthetic quality, narrative discourse, etc. Nonetheless there
is a substantial difference between, let's say, a commercial website,
and webart.
Basic unit: bit/bytes. Usage requires conceptualization
and specific language coding. Artist writes code based
on hypothesis, then sees results. Not unlike tradition of music.
Knowledge of math, physics, processes, music, useful.
Calcul. Machines/Computers
Innovative Years 1960-1982
Invention of Internet
Research Centers
Cultural Shifts1980's
Computers: An Illustrated History (1945-2004)
The future | Space Age, military, Cold War, ARPANET
Rand, Historical Maps of Computer Networks, Ted Nelson's Xanadu
Bell Labs, Xerox Parc, Interval Research
Apple II (1980), Osborne (1981), IBM PC (1982), Commodore 64, Atari, etc.
Constructivism, Bauhaus
1930's Scientific Images
1920's Cinematography
1960's Independent Films
Jules
Etienne Marey [1]
| Muybridge
Rodchenko | Moholy-Nagy
| Man Ray | Marcel
Duchamp
[2]|
Bruguire
Edgerton | Berenice Abbott
Lumiere | Vertov | Eisenstein | René Clair
Vanderbeek | S.Brahkage | M.Snow | J.Whitney Sr.
Malevich
| El
Lissitsky
Levi-Strauss | Buckminster
Fuller | Agnes
Denes
Jean Arp | Cage |
Russolo
Daniel Spoerri
Haacke (systems)| Lewitt
(algorithms) | Bochner (numeric systems)
Barry (actions) | Kosuth (propositions) Huebler (propositions) | Baldessari
(narrative) | On Karawa (Classification)
1960's
Noll | Cohen | Nake |
Artist as Inventor
Telematic
De Marinis | Rath | Pomeroy
Paul Sermon
Video | Motion Sensing
Mixed Realities
Virtual Architecture
Data Mining | Mapping
Computer Code & Algorithms
Immersive Environment
Net Art
Rokeby | J.Campbell | Gabriele |
Scott Fisher | Fujihata |
TransArchitecture |
Sack | Link | Knowbotic Research
John Simon Jr |
Osmose |
Heavy Industries | Lialina | Josh On | jodi | WonderWalker | Central City |
Artificial Life/Emergene
BioGenetics, BioHybrids
Artificial Intelligence
Sommerer/Mignonneau | Sims |
GFP Bunny (Kac) | Stelarc | Jeremijhenko [1] | Boids |
Aegis Architecture [UK][DECOI]
Last
Cellular Automata
Wolfram's Cellular Automata (Simple Rules lead to Complex Results)
How it Works | Rule Results | NKS |
Architecture Design Implementation | Processing
Data Mapping
Interactive Art
TransArchitecture
Space & TeleCommunications
Lisa Jevbratt
George Legrady
Marcos Novak [Eduction] [Torus Warp ]
Marko Peljhan [Image Archive][Research Topics ]
Intersections
of Art, technology, Science & Culture, Steve Wilson
From Wagner
to Virtual Reality, Randall Packer
A Story
of NetArt, Natalie Boochkin
Constructivism,
George Rickey
Cyber_Reader,
Neil Spiller
Digital
Art, WebLinks,
Christiane Paul
The
New Media Reader, Fruin, Montfort
Me++,
William J. Mithcell
Langlois Foundation
| ZKM | DEAF |
Siggraph