Arts 22 Digital Media Arts Strategies

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.

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.

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)