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Master of Electronic Art
Representation and Presentation
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New Media Art Overview The new media art is in the process of being mapped. There is a consensus about no definitive theory of new media being in existence. There are few writers who chose to discuss new media at the time of its inception in 1960s through to 1990s. Among those are Jack Burnham, Gene Youngblood and Frank Popper. Some of the best writing on new media came from artists themselves: Roy Ascott, Lev Manovich, Dieter Daniels, Ars Electronica & Transmidiale sites, provide some of the main proposed frameworks attempting to characterise and classify new media art and shape the way in which it is understood. Although immateriality has been identified as one of its main characteristics there is a presence of the sculptural form permanating the new media art. Nam June Paik, who has been identified as the grandfather of video art, has set that precedent when he exhibited Participation TV in 1963. The question 'What is new about new media articulates an aspect of the dilemma found when trying to situate this field of art within the existing cultural theories including theory and history of art.
Primary Reading Daniels, Dieter What is the point of art in the media age?
Lev Manovich 1996 Death of Computer Art Couchot, Edmond Media Art: Hybridization and Autonomy
More Electronic Arts Intermix, Nam June Paik Burnham, Jack 1968 Beyond Modern Sculpture , G. Braziller, NY Youngblood, Gene 1970 Expanded Cinema , A Dunton Paperback, NY Popper, Frank 1993 Art of the Electronic Age , Thames & Hudson, London Rush, Michael 2003 New Media in Late 20 th -Century Art Hill, Chris Attention! Production! Audience - Performing Video in the First Decade, 1968-1980 Ross, Christine Slow Time in Contemporary Media Arts , Refresh! Conference Rees, AL 1999 A History of Experimental Film and Video , UC Press, Berkeley Flusser, Vilem 2002 Writings , University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis UbuWeb: Film & Video an archve of avant-garde films and videos Kellner, Douglas Baudrillard: A New McLuhan? |