Ideas before their time
Notes from Symosium
1980s BBC
started 1981
KEY NOTE
Brian Reffin-Smith
Playes LP of collected speeches of enin - where can you buy this?
Improvisation as a sense of power vs reading
computer art should push the frontiers of art and not technology alone,
how are things rediscovered
how should this be done
how can CA get to be a contribution to contemporary art
reexport old ideas or harvest anew?
early video digitisers
physical movement of the image allowed you to interfere with the image
Liles wax cylinders!!
Pen plotters vs ink jet
unsafe technologies
both these examples are technique based
but there very idea of uncertainty is central to art
computer based art vs conceptual art
conceptual art - what is going on in a video, picture, etc
after is always revisionist (reactionary?)
pixel counts does not equal good art
paraphysics? {logic as sense as a pathological manual for experience?}
what was going on in an earlier era
you end up here you started and everything has changed
Computer Art and Cybernetics
Dodds
V&A
includes website in with the physical sites, as he should
collected ca since the late 1960s
patric prince collection
computer arts society
ca 500
conference to trace key artists
search the collections - on line catalogue
National Art Library catalogue NAL
Computer Art webpages
Anonymous works
digital pioneers book - best seller
exhibition in 88a and 90a
mostly print work
collection exhibition talked through
v&a continue to acquire material
Stroud Cornock
Co operative rather than competitive
Signal Intelligence - HK
back to modern art in US/UK
"looking for something to be committed to"
1967 - sculpture organising principle based on geometry
1968 - an epiphany - sight of the work through the eyes of the previous generation
challenge to make an art for everyman
abandoned modern art for interactivity
next body of work created
computer graphics work 1969 shown 1970
interactivity not a movement in art but a curiosity
confined to spcialised events
where is the masterpiece??
francesca
early work
datapack 1970 - conversation with a computer resulting in a plot
interested in the psychology of the response
TGRBower
communications game - using constructed network and booths to isolate
interaction takes place in time
art about communication
generative
Darko Fritz
Bonacic
tendencies 4 1968
electronic posters - drawing with light
dynamic objects
playing with the boundaries between order and randomness
computer language will be a language which will last
language incapable to convey music or art
Computer Art and Time
George Mallen
Art in Human Culture
we have been us for a short period of time
is IT the next step in our evolution?
separate functional intelligences - check paper
Mount Toba eruption
cataclysmic event and near extinction
aspects of humanity retained after this event 74000 years ago
on to the modern age
separate functionalities which lead to a difficulty of communication between these areas:
science
art
governance
religion
wealth creation
software upgrade for our culture?
computing as this upgrade? knowledge stored outside ourselves
data soliloquies - book discussed
FN
1968- two exhibitions in london and in croatia exchange happened in Zagreb between FN and Italian group
1970 - there should be no computer art - article
stopped until mac was developed
{revolutions always to the left}
in the era of globalisation, the international has come true, but without the uprising
to today, infrastructure has changed sustainably ( it cannot be returned to it's earlier state)
1965 the algorithm revolution seizes art
exhibition lasted 3 years…
analogue ways of thinking plus the digital ways of thinking
these are ways of seeing, and do not exist in the real
drawing and painting with thought
individual image is less important is not the centre
all that is solid melts into air - communist manifesto
think the image as a class of images, no master pieces any more - network of art aspects of control (algorithm) and normalcy
RW
Neo-Constructivists and systems artists
Jeffrey Steele - engagement vanishingly small - chaotic or irrational systems 1978
Kenneth Martin transformable series 1966
Gillian Wise
Malcolm Hughes thematic drawings 1972
Anthony Hill - practitioner and theorist
John Ernest - Mobeus Strip 1972
Contructivist manifesto 1922
Theo van Doesburg, Hans Richter et al
{check tate modern site}
sense of openness
Victor Pasmore
how can discursive categories and structures arise into computation?
systematic means of expression
can programmativc methods provide a contemporaneity for new media and art
HP
impermanence aesthetic
why are flaws designed into computer art?
perfection available in modern art - authenticity ( groove in drum machines)
Aura
cave painting owns it's own history
filters provide some sense of it's creation algorithmically
Improvised vs Interaction
erratic vs planned framework
why does impermanence move us?
wonder-first of 7 passions descartes, passion of the soul
-new
-surprising
-rare
rainbow
Digital Plant - responds with sound and light when watered
prototyping to develop concept
NL
william j mitchell -the reconfigured eye
digital camera vs chemical camera
rendering process enables access change and treats images as a set of instructions and numbers
Roger Malina
definitions of computer art
computer graphics
analogue vs digital in the interface
Space - "is something separate -immaterial physical object"
is of a substance by is not a substance
Ben Laposky oscilloscope art
Ruth Leavitt
Ken Musgrave
william fetter
RB Ravensbourne [bromley]
digital spaces for HE
ex RCA
creating an entire building for a digital future
BM
Space
-as nothing
-entity, relationship, physical object
manipulations of space
Myron Krueger 1969
holodeck - star trek animation series
the veldt - Bradbury
immersive worlds
encumbered
non encumbered
dolinski
kurt scwitter merzbau 1020s-30s
poem electonique
paik
convergence
tangibility
using the body as the interface
virtual presence
psychological effects of immersion
polaroid sonar sensor??
experiential extremism with elaine lillios
encounter(s) - 2007
gamelan spoken word and electro acoustic
change affected the perception of time
Art in second life, [clubs in home??]
Linden scripting language???
dan coyote antonelli
how interesting is et concept of ender swapping in an artist, or is this is just knee jerk novelty chasing?
Mo'R
sculpture - about mass
Rodin - search for space
Calder mobiles and staples
space and kinetic
interactive virtual sculpture
spacial - no physicality - lines in space
ge-le spirit which eats the soul of a sleeping child, spirit possesses a woman.
purely spacial experience
virtual tactility?
modelling smoke for frank stella
computer and output
PC
prof. fine arts
IK - ex disney
JP
dreamtime fellow
goldsmiths inter disciplinary research
technosphere
rapid prototyping
JG
advance digital design methods
PC
digital culture - john cage (yes!!!)
i have nothing to say, and I'm saying it
Slade - drawing underpinned practise
Cage -ideas take precedence over practice
make links into CAS
translation of the screen input to physical output an aspect of printmaking
new conception of an image
pictures which have been drawn neither by hand nor carved.
emotional impact of the print quality of computer output
printed and then transferred to etching
bringing together drawing and photography
dust flowers - tim head
becoming = craig martin
julian opie
harry winters
cathy prendergast - lost map landscape of places called 'lost'
contour map of Mount Fuji as a map with cherry blossom
JG
cross fertilisation of old and new technologies to create new forms
Subtractive fabrication
Robert Malory
Richard Hamilton
1968 Mallory experimented with computer aided sculpture
'information amplification device'
laser cutting tools for prototyping
slice chair
transparent furniture
wim delvoye
laser cut steel
bashida grossman
cad drawings used to carve glass crystal blocks internally
digital technology will continue o penetrate the landscape of everyday culture
IK
plotting offers accidents as a contribution
this is all technology again
Jane Prophet
Making Data Physical
has created a bastard - chimera - models and machetes
Decoy algorithmic based works - how a tree would grow in a en classical environment
3d rapid prototype trees
delouse and guttari on the line
object makes a qualitative difference to the work as t is perceived by the viewer
married together rapid prototype of mri scans of heart and lungs
Technocultures
Maria X
DG
SG
BW
MX
Curating Technocultures 2010
Ars Electronica
2003 -digital arts Thames and hudson
Christiane Paul
read me 2.3/run_me.org
intuitive cloud
linked to trivial and non formal aspects of life
the next five minutes festival
prix ars electronica 2009 (check 2010 site)
ISEA Syposium Ireland
check site
are they still relevant?
NODE london seek to achieve a wide audience
seen as elitist and over contextualised
media art histories - series of conferences
Oliver Grau
q - what is the purpose of media art festivals today?
intimacy visual and digital performance festival
DG
working with digital media and the political use of media
the next five minute festivals
freedom and the way this lies at the core, political implications for, media.
Nothing has changed in the last 40 years
ghetto like quality
use of a computer does not make one a computer artist ( hamilton, stella)
why he resistance
-repudiates any practise which frame of reference is any medium constraint
-really important stuff is free of this connotation
media may breakthrough and through post modern constraint
-film
-video
-art world act as institutional control
-necessity for maintenance
-founded on the impossibility on these aspects of control
1990s utopian moment - hacker ethic - participatory communications
role of media in collapse of eastern block
top down power had lost its edge
remounted in web 2.0 - user gen content
persistence of the myth that knowledge will set you free
and yea shall know the truth and this will set you free
Berlin - least plausible pretence
understanding of what amounts to freedom has changed (wifi, laptops, notebooks, iphone)
autonomous networks - Protocols - by making connections possible - power by exclusion - Password
must question the idea that any democratic expression may take place just by joining the big conversation
Jodi Dean
radical media culture
posted to autonazz?
No, technology and the media are the crucial battleground - soap operas and football help to keep the populous passive.
Fox as Narcotic
democracy as seek involvement to seek the boundaries of society
core subject of all contemporary art
SG
who and why
synaesthesia
exhibition transferred to second life arcade V
touch the invisible tactile interface
stereoscopic representation of mobile phone technology
ISEA
BW
creating continuity between computer art history and contemporary art
what is contemporary art/digital art
digital saloon
digital art - contemporary, separately curated - new generation of artists are digitally literate
cult of the amateur
how to promote aesthetic
mobile spaces/ non art spaces/
changes to the process
trade vs new media?
seamless
top down/bottom up effect - all literate
10th New York Salon in Leonardo
art of the digital age T&H 2006
Archives need thought and are essential for public consciousness
digital is being used less frequently
new interfaces will continue to be invented
3d tv/movies on disc/
the pendulum of culture will swing back…
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