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Master of Electronic Art
Representation and Presentation
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Themes in Digital Art & Festivals
Overview The body and identity theme, while not exclusive to new media, is characteristic of it. The way in which we can represent ourselves on the net, remake/redefine our bodies and its boundaries, has opened up new ways of engaging with this theme. New media's distributed networks provide an additional platform for disseminating information and enable political mobilization. The theme of collective liberation is pursued by Net-activists and hackerists. Artificial Intelligence, telematics, database aesthetic, games and hypermedia narration are more media specific themes. The types of thematic explorations, which can be distinguished, often arise from a direct involvement with the materiality presented by the medium and a lot of the themes deal with overcoming boundaries such as distance or consciousness. The new media festivals are a main source of seizing new developments in what is of interest in new media art. Often for curatorial reasons, an all encompassing theme is chosen meant to embrace a lot of different approaches/concerns of the artists practicing in this field. This has implications for what gets to be emphasised and recognised and consequently theorised as new media. Primary Reading Paul C 2003 Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, UK, ch3 More Festivals & Biennales: Ars Electronica , BEAP (Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth) , Transmediale , Boston Cyberarts Festival , DEAF (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival) , EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) , ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) , Korea Web Art Festival, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific , Next 5 Minutes , Read_Me_Festival , Stuttgarter Filmwinter . VIPER, International Festival of Film Video and Media Arts Body & Identity: Tina LaPorta , Stelarc , Victoria Vesna , Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss & Christian-A Bohn , Eduardo Kac . Shu Lea Cheang , Stahl Stenslie , Scott Snibbe Stone, Allucquere Rosanne 1995 The War of Desire & Technology , Mit Press, Cambridge, Mass. Hayles, Katherine How We Become Post-human , excerpt Paul, Barbara Media Art Sciences & Feminist Theories: New Alliances? (net)activism & hackerism Paper Tiger Television , Downtow Community Access Center, Video in (Vancouver) , Amelia Productions , Electronic Café Intersection , The Western Front , Critical Art Ensamble , Applied Autonomy , Josh On , Natalie Jeremijenko , Mongrel , Irrational.org , The Electronic Disturbance Theater , Etoy , R TMark , Vuk Cosic , Mongrel , 0100101110101101.org Limux operating system initiated in 1991 by Linus Thorvald, Philosophy of free data & info exchange is driving force behind the open source (& copyleft) movement Paul, C Political Activism, Hacktivism and Taktical Media Kingdom of Piracy at Ars Electronica Artificial Intelligence Karl Sims , Christa Sommerer & Lautrent Migmonneau , Thomas Ray , Rebecca Allen , Kenneth Rinaldo , Kenneth Feingold , Robert Nideffer , Lynn Hershman Haraway, Donna 1991 Simians, Cyborgs & Women , Routledge, NY Wiener. Norbert 1948 Cybernetics: or Control & Communication in the Animal & the Machine . Wiley. NY Licklider, JCR 1960 ' Man-Computer Symbiotics' Burnham. Jack 1968 Beyond Modern Sculpture: The effects of Science & Technology on the Sculpture of this Century, G Braziller, NY, p146 Turning, Alan 1950 Computer Machinery & Intelligence Alien Intelligence exhibition at the Kiasma museum in Finland in 2000 Telepresence, telematics & telerobotics Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Roy Ascott, Ken Goldberg & Joseph Santarromana , Eduardo Kac , Masaki Fujihata , Nina Sobell & Emily Hartzell , Adrianne Wartzel , Fakeshop Data Dynamics exhibition in The Whitney Museum of American Art Dietz, Steve 2001 Telematic connections: the virtual embrace , travelling exhibition Databases aesthetic Martin Wattenberg & Marek Walczak , Benjamin Fry , W Bradford Paley , George Legrady , Alex Galloway & RSG , Nancy Paterson , John Klima ecosystem , Warren Sack , Judith Donath & Fernanda B.Viegas Once upon a time there was a database Veel, Kristin Once upon a time there was a database... Alternative browsers: I/O/D's WebStalker, Maciej Wisniewski netomat . Andmid Kerne Collage Machine , Mark Napier's Riot Hypertext & narration Masaki Fujihata , Camille Utterbeck & Rony Achituv , John Maeda , David Small , Jim Gasperini & Tennessee Rice Dixon ScruTiny , Judy Malloy Games Natalie Bookchin , Cory Arcangel , Jodi, Olia Lialina , Feng Mengbo , Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre & Brody Condon , Velvet- Strike , Rebecca Cannon Paul, Christiane Public Cultural Production Art (Software) Kera, Denisa Game & art engine |