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Master of Electronic Art
Representation and Presentation
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Future Vision/Neurocinema
Overview Video is the latest step in a process that is destroying the spectacular ritual in art - the going out to the temple to see it - but by no means the last. The next step is to get rid of the intervening structure, the cameras, the monitors, and telecasting circuity... so that I can transmit to and receive from your mind instantly without the need for the tape or the camera. Douglas Davis 1976 from 010101: Art in Technological Times, p16
The Brain is the Screen - Gilles Deleuze
The next step in advancing the technology depends on the developments in neuroscience. The MIT and Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies are conducting research aimed at evolving currrent interfaces, to neuro interfaces. The only reason why Neourocinema is not a reality yet is because the hardware/wetware gap has not been overcome. The sentiment to do away with a lot of matter associated with display and presentation of digital art, such as expressed above by Douglas Davies, is encroaching on reality. Experiments in laser film by Michael Schmid showed that it is possible to project without using other technical means. Developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as cybernetic communication system that could be inserted behind the eyes and ears , also lean towards descretion. Rene Stettler, a curator, proposed a theory that the nervous systems process and organize information, in a most effective way, and how this knowledge could be applied to the making of machines. Peter Weibel sees all technology as a man made nature and refers to it as genetic art . A direct interface between artwork and the brain facilitates interaction and disposes of the viewer as spectator. As the interface becomes more disceate and the potential of it becoming integrated with our bodies increases, will our subjectivity and our experience of time alter? Edward Steichen, Eduardo Kac, Critical Art Ensemble, Adam Ross, George Gessert , Donald Burgy
Primary Reading Sondheim, Alan 1994 Presence of Future Presence of Video: Thing II
Christiane Paul Technologies of the future P212, Paul C Digital Art
Dietrich, Frank The Computer: A Tool for Thought-Experiments
More Shaw, J & Weibel, P 2003 Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film , The MIT Press, Cambridge/Massachussetts, London/England, ch 00 Screenless Bainbridge, David Notes on M1 (1969) Sherman, Tom 1991 Reflecting on the Future of Video Pisters, Patricia 1998 From Mouse to Mouse - Overcoming Information Enculturation, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1998 Brakhage, Stan The Act of Seeing with one's own Eye
Halter, Ed Stan Brakhage. The Metaphysics of Taboo: Brakhage Faces Birth and Death Picard, Rosalind W 2000 Affective Computing , MIT Press synopsis Hiltz, Starr Roxanne & Turoff, Murray 1993 The Network Nation. Human Communication via Computer - Revised Edition, MIT Press (first published in late 70s, on computer mediated communication, projects scenario in 2084) synopsis Youngs, Amy The Fine Art of Creating Life Gagnon, Adrianne Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms in SFOMA 2001 010101: Art in Technological Times, Hemlock Printers, Canada, p125-127 Rieser, Martin Locative Media and Spatial Narrative Davis, Erik Anchors Aweigh! Baudrillard 1983 Simulations Semiotexte, NY Dantec, Maurice G 2005 Babylon Babies , The MIT Press synopsis Duguid, Paul Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book ' in Nunberg, Geoffrey 1996 The Future of the Book , University of California Press insect Eye Inspires Future Vision
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