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Digital Art(part two)
Themes, Issues and Concepts
AK 2100Art and Technology
General Themes in Digital Art
Artificial Life*Artificial Intelligence*Telepresence and telematicsIdentity and the BodyMapping, databases and visualizing dataNarrativeGames*Tactical Media and activism*
* to be addressed in future lectures
Telepresence and Telematics
- telecommunications art has a long history- use of phones, faxes, TV, satellite
communications, etc.- Roy Ascott: early pioneer- Global consciousness, connected intelligence- digital technology: being present in different
locations at the same time- robotics
Radio Controlled Robot, Eduardo Kac, 1986
Telepresence and Telematics
- telecommunications art has a long history- use of phones, faxes, TV, satellite
communications, etc.- Roy Ascott: early pioneer- Global consciousness, connected intelligence- digital technology: being present in different
locations at the same time- robotics
Hole-in-space, 1980: Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabionowitzhttp://www.ecafe.com/getty/HIS/
The Telegarden, Ken Goldbert and Jospeh Santarraomana
http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
Telepresence and Telematics
Ken Goldbert and Joseph Santarromana, Mori 1995 - presenthttp://www.zakros.com/projects/mori/
Telepresence and Telematics
Eduardo Kac, Teleporting an Unknown State. 1994-6http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html
Telepresence and Telematics
Eduardo Kac, Teleporting an Unknown State. 1994-6http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html
Telepresence and Telematics
Erik Paulos and John Canny, Personal Roving Presence, 1997 - present
Telepresence and Telematics
Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town, 2001http://www.camouflagetown.tv/
http://www.whitney.org/artport/exhibitions/datadynamics/wortzel.shtml
Telepresence and Telematics
Lynn Hershman, Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll (1995-8)
Telepresence and Telematics
Fakeshop (Jeff Gompertz and Prema Murthy)Capsule Hotel, 2001 - present
http://www.fakeshop.com/capsule_hotel/index_altbrowser.html
Telepresence and Telematics
- bodies have become increasingly transparent
- ubiquitous surveillance- multiple selves- online identity- relationship between virtual and physical
Body and Identity
Victoria Vesnahttp://vv.arts.ucla.edu/index.html
Monika FleischmannLiquid Views: The Virtual Mirror of Narcissus, 1992/93
Body and Identity
Body and Identity
Lea Chang
Guggenheim Museum, 1998
Based on accounts that were also used to create the movie Boys Don’t Cry
Exploration of multi layered narrative of gender and narrative
Eduardo Kac
"Time Capsule" is a work-experience that lies somewhere between a local event-installation, a site-specific work in which the site itself is both my body and a remote database, and a simulcast on TV and the Web. The object that gives the piece its title is a microchip that contains a programmed identification number and that is integrated with a coil and a capacitor, all hermetically sealed in biocompatible glass. The temporal scale of the work is stretched between the ephemeral and the permanent; i.e., between the few minutes necessary for the completion of the basic procedure, the microchip implantation, and the permanent character of the implant. As with other underground time capsules, it is under the skin that this digital time capsule projects itself into the future.
Body and Identity
Time Capsule: implanted microchiphttp://www.ekac.org/timec.html
Stahl Stenslie
the nature of digital perception
http://www.stenslie.net
Body and Identity
Body and Identity
The Leap
We think of personal space as something that belongs solely to ourselves. However, Boundary Functions shows us that personal space exists only in relation to others. Our personal space changes dynamically in relation to those around us.
Scott Snibbe
Body and Identity
Scott Snibbe, Boundary Functions, 1998 - http://www.snibbe.com/scott/bf/index.htm
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Martin Wattenberg and Marek WalczakThe Apartment, 2001 -
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/index.html
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Martin Wattenberg and Marek WalczakThe Apartment, 2001 -
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/index.html
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Benjamin FryData Visualization Valence, 1999 -
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Benjamin FryData Visualization Valence, 1999 -
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/index.html
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
George LegradyAn Annotated Archive of the Cold War
http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/legrady.html
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
George LegradyAn Annotated Archive of the Cold War
http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/legrady.html
Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Next, CarnivorePE serves this data stream to interfaces called "clients." These clients are designed to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in various ways. Use CarnivorePE to run Carnivore clients from your own desktop, or use it to make your own clients.
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Alex Gallowayhttp://rhizome.org/carnivore/
- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Nancy PattersonThe Stock Market Skirt
http://www.vacuumwoman.com/index.html
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Lynn HershmanSynthia, 2001
http://www.lynnhershman.com/
Art should show who we are, and technology is so much a part of who we are right now. I think technology today is what fresco painting was to the Renaissance— it’s that pervasive. By dealing with technology I can look at questions of originality, identity, media manipulation, surveillance, and loss of privacy. There are so many interesting areas: robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, digital sampling...
Lynn Hershman (Nancy Cooper Frank. The Nob Hill Gazette, Nov. 2002, http://www.ncooperfrank.com/work2.htm)
Mapping, databases and visualizing data
Judith Donath and Fernanda ViegasChat Circles
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/
Chat Circles 3 is a graphical interface for synchronous communication that does not make use of representational graphics. Here, each participant is represented by a colored circle on the screen in which his or her words appear... Viewed over time Chat Circles creates a visual record of conversational patterns: one sees who are the active, animated participants and one can watch the emergence and dissolution of conversational groups.
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/donath.html#ABSTRACT
Narrative
- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text
and word
Camille Utterback, Text Rain, 1999http://www.camilleutterback.com/
Narrative
- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text
and word
Camille Utterback, See Saw, 2001http://www.camilleutterback.com/
Narrative
- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text
and word
David Small and Tom WhiteStream of Consciousness, 1998
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/http://www.davidsmall.com/
Narrative
- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text
and word
David Small and Tom WhiteStream of Consciousness, 1998
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/http://www.davidsmall.com/