Readings 1 - 5 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Medium is the Message
The technology that communicates the message changes the message and us
Body Immersive
Immersion of body into artwork → boundary between self and artwork becomes ambigious
Time Continuity
Objects that have been changes over many years and molded by interraction can help dissolve the barrier of human understanding of time continuity and its vastness
Transcending Boundaries
Humans create artificial boundaries to understand the world that seperates it into discrete components → some artwork is trying to change this by dissolving these boundaries
Ryoji Ikeda - “Micro/Macro” & “Superposition”
“Micro/Macro” - uses lights and sounds to slowly shift a screen from small and quiet components to large and intense ones, makes use of computers and programming
“Superposition” - playing with sounds, codes, old technologies, incripted messaging systems, quickly changing visuals, has a cosmic but electronic vibe
Post-media perspective
“Interface #4 / TFT tennis V180” - Virtual tennis game - Toy or artwork? Useful tool or piece of culture? Artifact of the new media art world —> NMA is truly inderdisciplinary, the collision of art and science and tech
Dirk Koy: Luftraum
Playing with a highway, buildings, and cars and using visual effects to simulate impossible-looking urban-based structures - possibly discussing the vastness & imprialism of urbanization?
Max Hattler: Serial Parallels
Looking at the unity and monotony of urban Hong Kong highrises, how they are just the same, completely, up and down - “gentle and “anxiety provoking”
Halo
Scientific visualization of quantum physics - replication of a natural experience through since & tech, showcases actual scientific data of particle collisions
“Parting the Wave”
Scientific visualization of quantum physics - show intensity and appearance particle interactions in a quantum system, using sound, color, and shape — essentially wanting to show how nature is mediated through science
“The Machine at the End of the Mechanical Age”
Artsists & engineers now are working in tandem - in the past machines were not just for necessity, but for play, symbols, and attractions —> artists will continue to use them for that
Inauguration of Experiments in Art and Technology
Industrial revolution forced averageness on man (everyone is the same) - it will be up to artists to bridge the gap and make technology friendly again, and both must work in tandem to create a new world that people are excited about
Programming Art:Casey Reas
Creates art with programming and software → code & art as one, logic and procedures behind artwork —> emergence of the unexpected from rules and instructions, unsual way to work with computers
Yoko Ono - “Grapefruit”
Instructions for artwork, not the actual artwork —> focusing on the experience and feeling, no production involved from the artist herself, its up to the viewer
Alexander Rodchenko - “Constructivism”
Beauty in the construction and the components — antipolitical statements — evoking imagery of political propoganda posters and russian architecture
“Perpetual Ocean”
Ocean currents from around the world for two years—> data as art
“Global Winds”
Wind currents from around the world —> patterns show directions and colors show speed from dark red to white (high to low)
Aaron Koblin Data Visualization
Presentation of data is a great interface to tell stories → data becoming artistic (flight patterns, communication radio waves & data, mechanical turk (easy for people, difficult for robots), ) → crowd sourced data
Refik Anadol data visualizations
Can machines dream? - Data as pigments, immersion in art, AI —> using computers and science to describe human experience, blurring the line between AI/robots & humans —> expands the power of AI and humans and thus humans and AI
“Infinity: Never Ending Film”
Composed of entirely generative technology - could theoretically go on forever and create an infinite number of characters
Bored Ape Yacht Club
NFTs that are supposedly one of a kind that you can own → current lawsuit over the deceptive practices in their marketing and sale → artificially inflating the price?
Symphonie Cinetique
Reanimation of metalic & reflective plates in tandem and controlled by music, like a dance with their own feelings and tones - uses reflection, sound, and movement —> movement into sound and sound into movement - essentially objects given life through music
Petalclouds in Changi Airport
Kinetic artwork that “dances” to movement - six suspended sky petals
Victimless Leather Jacket
Biological artwork - human & mice stem cells that was fed, living, multiplying, growed and changed in a way that no one could predict —> had to be shut down —> meant to be a critique on experimentation that goes on behind labratory doors —> brings up moral and ethical questions, what is life?
