The Art of Cyberspace

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The Art of Cyberspace

• Pieere Levy
• 2002. 05. 14
• Kim, Sang-Woon

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Contents

• Cyberspace 3 characteristics
• An influence of the cyberspace
• Artistic phenomenon
• New attempt by the artist
• The art of involvement
• Summary

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Cyberspace

• Cyberspace seems to cultivate 3 interdependent
  clause
• Message-oriented
• The established differences become blurred
• The divisions that separate the works tend to
  become obliterated

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Message-oriented

• Invoked, transmitted, sent back, expelled, drawn
  in
• Given this or that scenario depending on
  different tastes and situations
• Revolve around receptors

M4
M3
M1
M2
M5
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Escaped from existing roles

• The established differences become blurred
• Author and reader
• Performer and spectator
• Creator and interpreter
• A reading-writing continuum is predominant
• Extends from the designers of technology and
  networks to the final recipient

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Breaking down divisions

• The divisions that separate the works tend to
  become obliterated
• Divisions are attributed to authors
• Each and every representation may be subject to
  sampling, mixing, re-utilization, and so on
• A creative effort is shifting away
• from the messages towards the device, the
  processes and languages, the dynamic
  architecture, and environment

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Influence of the cyberspace

• Emerging of cyberspace
• directly alter the framework
• The work and its limits, its presentation,
  reception, reproduction, distribution,
  interpretation, and the diverse types of
  separation
• Result in engendering the mutation
• The socio-technical environment of the works has
  engendered the mutation

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The artistic phenomenon

• For several centuries, in the West, as follow
• A person signs a particular object or message
  (the work)
• Other persons perceive, taste, read, interpret,
  and evaluate
• The function of the work
• Religious, decorative, subversive
• Its ability to pierce the emotional core within us

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The artistic phenomenon, cont

• Recently, the techno-cultural environment gives
  rise to new art forms
• Ignore the distinctions between emission and
  reception, creation, and interpretation
• The new art form allow audience to experience
  other methods of communication and creation

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New attempts by the artist

• To establish an environment , an arrangement of
  communication and production , a collective event
• A collective event
• Involves the recipients
• Transforms interpreters into players
• Places the interpretation as the collective
  activity
• For example, open works
• The receivers are invited to fill in the blanks,
  to choose between possible directions, and to
  confront the differences in their interpretation

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The art of involvement

• causes processes to emerge
• invites one to grow and inhabit a world
• places us in a creative cycle and a living
  environment in which we are always already
  co-authors
• shifts the emphasis from work to progress
• -gt an art that bears no signature !!!

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Summary

• Cyberspace characteristics
• Message-oriented
• The established differences become blurred
• The divisions that separate the works tend to
  become obliterated
• The emergence of cyberspace causes the art of
  involvement to appear