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This Week's Links and New Media Art Updates
1. THIS WEEK’S LINKS:
• Whitney Biennial
• h,p://www.newyorker.com/online/mul8media/
2010/03/08/100308_audioslideshow_whitneybiennial
• TEDx
• h,p://www.streamonline.pl/transmisja‐tedx‐warsaw‐wyklady‐zapis/
• The Sound of Jupiter (amazing!)
• h,p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
2. NEW MEDIA ART
ASP American Art and Visual Culture
Dr. Lori Kent
Spring 2010
3. 1950 – Engineering Research Associates built the ERA
1101, the first commercially produced computer.
1954 –Computer music performance at MoMA by the
computer music center at Columbia University.
1964 – Marshall McLuhan publishes “Understanding
Media”
1967 – Sony releases the PortaPak, the first portable
video camera
1970 – The exhibition “Software” at the Jewish Museum,
NYC, treats computer programming as a metaphor for
conceptual art.
4. TOOLS
Hardware and software…
servers, routers, PCs, database
applications, video and computer
games, wireless phones, surveillance
cameras, GPS, social networks, etc.
5. Vibeke Sorensen wrote in 1995
• First of all, there are qualities unique to digital
media. They include memory, computational
prowess, high bandwidth data transfer, and
high speed data transformation. It affects
most fields of science, commerce,
engineering, entertainment, and art. Being
digital, they share a common structure and
language, and are part of a continuum rather
than completely separate entities. The most
popular means for traversing this continuum is
the Internet, particularly the data
dissemination structure referred to as the
World Wide Web.
8. Who led the way?
Dada, Duchamp, Warhol, Marshall
McLuhan, Lichtenstein, Joan Jonas,
William Wegman, Bill Viola, Vito
Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Naim June
Paik, and many more….
32. Douglas Davis
h,p://artport.whitney.org/collec8on/davis/
In 1995, the Whitney Museum acquired its first work of Internet art, Douglas Davis' The
World's First Collabora8ve Sentence. Commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery,
Bronx, New York, in conjunc8on with "Interac8ons," its 1994 survey exhibi8on of the
ar8st's work, Sentence is an ongoing textual and graphic performance on the World
Wide Web that is owned by the Whitney Museum but was maintained on the Lehman
website from 1994 ‐ 2005. The work was generously donated to the Whitney by
Barbara Schwartz in honor of Eugene M. Schwartz, her late husband, who together had
purchased the concept and a signed disk with recordings of the first days of the
Sentence. Visitors to the site may add their own contribu8ons to the Sentence ‐‐ there
are more than 200,000 to date, separated into twenty‐one "chapters," in dozens of
languages and with a remarkable range of images and graphics. Any subject may be
addressed, but no contribu8on can end with a period, as the Sentence is infinitely
expanding.
37. “My Boyfriend Came back from the War.”
Olia Lialina's my boyfriend came back from the war captures the flavor of a complex
and personal situa8on in a presence that reveals an8cipa8on, anxiety, hopes,
mixed messages, and personality transforma8on, in what appears as a mixture of
said and unsaid expressions. The naviga8on scheme presents opportuni8es to
pursue mul8ple, intersec8ng threads, crea8ng a web of possible internal and
external conversa8ons that become realized in the site visitors' approach to the
environment
The ar8st establishes a graceful combina8on of image, word and flow. One visual
region presents a non‐changing presence illustra8ng the boyfriend's presence. The
rest of the visual realm is divided into mul8ple sta8c frames within which the
par8cipant interacts to illuminate conversa8on elements. This work has a
performa8ve character, and I found myself "playing" the frames in a combina8on
and speed that matched my own percep8on and interest. A built‐in disappearance
of naviga8on op8ons presents a graceful cadence for the piece, something that is
par8cularly unusual in the more commonplace never‐ending web experience
.This piece works well, and integrates the medium in a way that doesn't get in the way
of the content and message.
h,p://www.teleportacia.org/war
43. 1971 – Floppy diskette invented by IBM
1972 – Atari invented “pong”
1974 – Naim June Paik invents the term “information
superhighway”
1976 – Wozniak and Jobs form Apple Computer
1982 – Time magazine declares the computer as “Man
of the Year”
1985 – MIT Media Lab formed
1990 – HTML invented by Tim Berners-Lee
45. New Media art emerged from its historical
precedents. Originally a marginal field (in the
hands of a few nerds) public interest grew out of
a fascination with the potential of new
technologies. In America, there was the
“California Ideology” which was libertarianism
and technological utopianism fed by “Wired”
magazine.
53. 1998 – Netscape announces that it will make its source
code freely available to the public
1998 – The Web becomes worldwide as the last 21
nations come online.
2000- stock market crash and bursting of dot.com
bubble.
2003 – New Museum affiliates with Rhizome.org
2004 - Google goes public, IPO fetches 1.7 billion
dollars
2009 – Facebook reaches 175m users making it the 8th
largest “country” in the world
63. Harwood@Mongrel
"Uncomfortable Proximity" is the 8tle of this on‐line project
created by Harwood, a member of the Mongrel collec8ve.
Commissioned by Tate Na8onal Programmes, it mirrors the
Tate's own web‐site, but offers new images and ideas, collaged
from his own experiences, his readings of Tate works and
publicity materials and his interest in the Tate Britain site.
Related cri8cal texts by Ma,hew Fuller are in the Connec8ons
sec8on of the Tate web‐site".
Hogarth, My Dad 1700‐2000
At the TATE Website
66. John Klima
•
EARTH, a unique geo‐spa8al visualiza8on system,
culls real‐8me data from the Internet and
accurately posi8ons it onto a three‐dimensional
model of the Earth. The EARTH soware
accurately posi8ons real‐8me data culled from
the Internet on a three‐dimensional model of the
Earth. Viewers are able to travel from layer to
layer by zooming in and retrieving imagery and
data for specific regions.
67. Lisa Jevbratt
1:1 was a project created in 1999 which consisted of a
database that would eventually contain the addresses
of every Web site in the world and interfaces through
which to view and use the database. Crawlers were
sent out on the Web to determine whether there was a
Web site at a specific numerical address. If a site
existed, whether it was accessible to the public or not,
the address was stored in the database. However, the
Web was changing faster than the database was
updated and in 2001 it was clear that the database was
outdated.
68. Flickrgraph
Flickr Graph is an applica8on that explores the social
rela8onships inside
flickr.com. It makes use of the classic a,rac8on‐
repulsion algorithm for graphs. Start exploring your
contacts by entering your flickr username or the
email address you used to register there.
69. Christiane Paul
Mapping Transi8ons was an exhibi8on curated by Chris8an Paul at the University of
Colorado. While dis8nctly different in their approach, the art projects
commissioned for Mapping Transi8ons are all concerned with the visualiza8on of
various forms of data flow and data sets. Both Mary Flanagan’s and Lisa Jevbra,’s
project explore the ‘search’ as an aesthe8c form of mapping the Internet.
Flanagan’s [search] examines the search engine as a creator of context and
meaning by reconfiguring its content in a way that illustrates seman8c levels,
which usually aren’t obvious to the viewer. Displaying the constant stream of
ques8ons that users ask the Internet—a stream that ranges from the ridiculous to
the sublime—the project creates a topography of Internet users’ interests and a
map of the func8on that the Internet fulfills in people’s daily lives.
70. John Klima
Ecosystm is a real‐8me representa8on of global currency vola8lity fluctua8ons, leading
global market indexes, and up‐to‐the‐minute weather reports from JFK airport.
Commissioned in 2000 by Zurich Capital Markets, an investment company based in
New York, ecosystm takes data ZCM uses every day, re‐purposing it to drive a 3d
environmental simula8on viewers explore using a joys8ck. Ecosystm consists of
flocks of "birds" (each flock represen8ng a country's currency) and branching
"tree" structures (each tree represen8ng a country's leading market index). As a
market index advances, the tree grows new branches. If the index declines,
branches begin to fall off the tree. Similarly, a currency's current value against the
dollar is indicated by an increase or decrease in the popula8on of the flock.
71. Mouchette.org
h,p://mouche,e.org
Mouche'e.org is an interac1ve website created in 1996 by a
pseudonymous character, an Amsterdam‐based ar1st who calls herself
"Mouche'e". With her innocent saluta1on and claims to be "nearly
thirteen"[1] gree1ng us from the introduc1on page, what ini1ally appears as
a personal website of a pre‐pubescent female ar1st, evolves into darker
themes in the subsequent pages.