digital art lecture 1
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Digital Art
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. -Christian Paul
Computer Art? Multimedia Art? New Media Art?
What is new? What is new in fact is that digital technology has now reached such a stage of development that it offers entirely new possibilities for the creation and experience of art.
Old
New
tool
medium
Rain Room, Random International, 2012
hybrid
Human/Dog Hybrid, Patricia Piccinini 2002
A short history of technology and art
Military Industrial Complex
Noun a country’s military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.
ENIAC 1946
UNIVAC 1951
ARPANET 1969
Douglas Engelbart first mouse for interface
Douglas Engelbar bitmap
DADA
DADA
DADA
Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968
Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, 1923
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, 1913
Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. 1919
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920
Marcel Duchamp Rotary Demisphere, 1925
Marcel Duchamp Tongue in Cheek
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Photogram 1925
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Light Space Modulator, 1922
Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray Rayogram, 1922
Man Ray
John Cage, new-Dada, Fluxus
Fluxus
Allan Kaprow
Fluxus
Water Yam, George Brecht, 1963
Yoko Ono Cut Piece,
Cut Piece First Version for single performer: Performer sits on stage with a pair of scissors placed in front of him. It is announced that members of the audience may come on stage–one at a time–to cut a small piece of the performer’s clothing to take with them. Performer remains motionless throughout the piece. Piece ends at the performer’s option.
Nam June Paik Random Access, 1963
early computer graphics
Michael A. Noll
Bella Julesz
Georg Nees
Frieder Nake
George Whitney
Charles Csuri
Vera Molnar
Vera Molnar
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz., 1977
Robert Adrian The World in 24 Hours, 1982