Introduction to digital art for Fine Art students virtual

1. Digital Art Project

2. “Artists have always been among the first to reflect on the culture and technology of their time, and decades before the digital revolution had been officially proclaimed, they were experimenting with the digital medium” “[New technology] offers entirely new possibilities for the creation and experience of art.” Christiane Paul, Digital Art, 2003:7

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism Futurists: “The changing perspectives of flight constitute an absolutely new reality that has nothing in common with the reality traditionally constituted by a terrestrial perspective” Perspectives of Flight, 1928

4. Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics [in motion]) 1920Marcel Duchamp Optical Illusion machine, Marcel Duchamp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cZVnQeeic4

5. Light Space Modulator (1922- 1930) LászlóMoholy-Nagy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnF9A3azSA

6. Dada & Fluxus Events & Audience participation

7. Open Score, 1966Robert Rauschenberg Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) 9 evenings: Theatre & Engineeriing, 1966 http://www.9evenings.org/openscore.php

8. voice-over on documentary video from 9 evenings: Theatre and Engineering. E.A.T http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1842 “I want to remove the notion of the separation between the artist and the engineer. I think that the engineer is separate from other people simply because of his very specialized knowledge. And very shortly because of the continued use of those specialized knowledges, if on the one hand the artist can become aware so to speak of the technology, and if the technologist can become aware so to speak of the fact that the show must go on, then I think we can expect interesting art, but we may just very well expect an interesting change in the social order. The most important effect it seems to me at the present moment is that the position of the engineer as a possible revolutionary figure. And it may very well come as a result of the artists and engineers collaboration because the artist for years now has been a repository so to speak of revolutionary thought whereas the engineers in their recent history have been the employees of the economic line. But in relating to the artists they become related to a revolutionary factor.”

9. Magnet TV, 1965Nam June Paik

10. Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes (1971)Nam June Paik Performed by Charlotte Moorman

11. TV Buddha, 1974Nam June Paik Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture

12. Electronic Superhighway: Continental US (1995). Forty seven channel and closed circuit video installation with 313 monitors, neon, and steel structure; color, sound, approx. 15x32x4 feet.

13. Audience Participation Rule based art Internet art Code based art / software art Games Robotics Archives & databases Telematics Social networks Activism

14. Virtual Places, Imagined Landscapes In the “Virtual Places, Imagined Landscapes” project you will create a virtual journey through real and imagined places, using digital photographs, websites, animation and projection.

15. layered places digital and real hybrids

16. ASCII architecture, 2000VukCosic http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/architecture/

17. ASCII architecture, 2000VukCosic http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/architecture/

18. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, 1984-1985 Krzysztof Wodiczko

19. Years/ Months/ Weeks/ Days/ Hours/ Minutes/ Seconds 1996Tony Oursler http://www.tonyoursler.com/

20. Project for Physic Garden, 2008Tony Oursler

21. Displaced Emperors, 1997Raphael Lozano-Hemmer http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/displaced_emperors.php Habsburg Castle in Linz, Austria / Habsburg residence in Mexico City

22. 34 North 118 West – Jeff Knowlton & Naomi Spellman Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk.

23. Doves, 1999Ursula Damm http://ursuladamm.de/doves-1999

24. Crowd Compiler, 2004-05Christian Nold http://www.softhook.com

25. In Real Time, 1999Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller http://www.cardiffmiller.com/

26. connected spaces & telematics

27. Hole-in-Space, 1980,Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz ‘Public Communication Sculpture’ live two-way telecommunication event between New York and Los Angeles http://www.ecafe.com/getty/HIS/index.html

28. Telematic Dreaming, 1992Paul Sermon

29. In Conversation, 1997Susan Collins http://www.inconversation.com/

30. In Conversation, 1997Susan Collins http://www.inconversation.com/

31. Transporting Skies, 2002Susan Collins

32. social networks

33. London Wall, 2010Thomson & Craighead “London Wall is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a three-mile radius of the Museum of London.” http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/londonwall.html

34. Buscando al Sr. Goodbar, 2010Michelle Teran “Buscando Al Sr. Goodbar” is a journey through Murcia, Spain that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos produced in the city. http://www.ubermatic.org/?p=225

35. Flat Earth Thomson & Craighead “Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples' blogs. These fragments are knitted together to form a kind of story or singular narrative.”

36. live networks

37. Short Films about FlyingThomson & Craighead “Short Films about Flying is a networked installation by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead in which an open edition of unique cinematic works are automatically generated in the gallery, and in real-time from existing live data found on the world-wide web. “

38. game spaces Bringing the virtual into the real and the real into the virtual

39. An Artists Impression, 1999Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie

41. Q4U, 2004FengMengbo

42. Windowsninetyeightigloo – Bruno Martelli & Ruth Gibson

43. Windowsninetyeightigloo – Bruno Martelli & Ruth Gibson

44. virtual journeys

45. Imaginary Journey, 2003Heidi Tikka http://imaginaryjourney.uiah.fi/

46. Pico MiradorRachel Reupke http://picomirador.org/

47. Pico MiradorRachel Reupke http://picomirador.org/

48. Pico MiradorRachel Reupke http://picomirador.org/

49. Murmur http://murmurtoronto.ca

50. Murmur http://murmurtoronto.ca/place.php?232580

51. fictional landscapes

52. “Digital technologies add an extra dimension to the composite and collage, for disparate elements can be blended more seamlessly, with the focus being on a ‘new’, simulated form of reality rather than on the juxtaposition of components with a distinct spatial or temporal history.” Christiane Paul, 2003, Digital Art, London, Thames & Hudson.

53. OldtonTim Wright

54. OldtonTim Wright

55. OldtonTim Wright

56. Westcoast, 2009Ulu Braun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYj_CM_3PQk

57. locative media

58. GPS drawingJeremy Woods

59. HenrikEkeus

60. BiomappingChristian Nold www.biomapping.net

62. Masaki Fujihata

63. Simultaneous echoes, 2009Masaki Fujihata http://www.fujihata.jp/s_echoes_09/

64. Birds of Pray Feat. Edward Armitage, 'The Siren', 2010HaroonMirza http://www.clickfolio.com/haroon/

65. Further resources http://jensouthern.tumblr.com Virtual Places, Imagined Landscapes In the “Virtual Places, Imagined Landscapes” project you will create a virtual journey through real and imagined places, using digital photographs, websites, animation and projection. A series of 5 or more digital images (on DVD or printed) A short animation (on DVD) A Tumblr.com website (a print out and URL) A group digital projection (In the LICA installation space)