Course Introduction |
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5 Sections / Concepts |
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Integration | combining of artistic forms and technology into a hybrid form of expression |
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Interactivity | manipulate experience directly and to communicate with others through media |
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Hypermedia | linking of separate media elements to one another to create trail of personal association |
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Immersion | entering into the simulation of a 3D environment |
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Narrativity | aesthetic and formal strategies which result in nonlinear story forms and media representations |
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Engineering & Theory: The transition of the computer from calculating machine to a medium |
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1945 | V.Bush A device for mechanized private file and library: operate literally "as we may think" |
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1945 | N.Wiener Cybernetics, HCI background and social impact of electronic media |
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1945 | Licklider The computer as creative collaborator |
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1960's | Sutherland Sketchpad - 1st interactive graphics software, also immersive room proposal 3D display: a computer could represent information spatially |
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1963 | T.Nelson XANADU: the hyperlink (responding to bushıs Memex associative trails) |
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1968 | Engelbart Toolkit to augment human intellect: oNLine System (NLS) (1st time to manipulate information through a computer interface) |
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1970 | A.Kay Xerox Parc, Dynabook: notebook size, hyperlinking, integrate all media (GUI) |
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1970's | R.Bolt Information as a "place", spatial-data management |
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1989 | T.Berners-Lee CERN, WWW: on-line document sharing system (non-hierarchical structure and open protocols) |
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Arts: Theater, Performance as Multimedia; Immersive environments |
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1849 | Wagner Gesamtkunstwerk: unification of music, song, dance, poetry, visual arts, stagecraft |
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1916 | Futurists Revolutionary declaration of film (technology) as supreme art |
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1924 | Moholy-Nagy Formal elements: space, composition, motion, sound, movement, light |
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1940's | Cage Collaborative performance, indeterminacy and chance operations |
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1960's | A. Kaprow Happenings: aesthetically planned group interactivity in composed environment |
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1960's | Kluver EAT: Experiments in Art & Technology (artists & engineers) |
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1966 | R.Ascott Computers as Artistic Expression |
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