New Media Art

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New Media Art
New media art is a genre that encompasses
artworks created with new media technologies,
including computer graphics, computer animation,
the Internet, interactive technologies, robotics,
and biotechnologies. The term differentiates
itself by its resulting cultural objects, which
can be seen in opposition to those deriving from
old media arts (i.e. traditional
painting, sculpture, etc.) This concern with
medium is a key feature of much contemporary art
and indeed many art schools now offer a major
in "New Genres" or "New Media." New Media
concerns are often derived from the
telecommunications, mass media and digital modes
of delivery the artworks involve, with practices
ranging from conceptual to virtual art,
performance to installation. ----Wikipedia
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• New Media Art
• and older names are
• often used interchangeably
• Digital Art
• Computer Art
• Multimedia Art
• Interactive Art

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• Art Technology
• Refers to Practices
• Electronic Art
• Robotic Art
• Genomic Art
• These are new but not necessarily media related

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• Media Art
• Video Art
• Transmission Art
• Experimental Film
• Art forms that incorporate media technologies
  that (by the 1990s) are no longer new.

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New Media Art is an intersection of these 2
domains (Art Technology / Media Art)
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• New Media Art
• is all about the new ---
• New Cultural Forms
• New Technologies
• New Twists on Familiar Issues
• However, New Media Art did not arise in a vacuum.

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• Dada
• Readymades / Prepared PlayStation
• Photomontage-Collage / Genetic Response System
  3.0
• Pop Art
• Lichtenstein / eBoy
• Conceptual Art
• Weiner / Simon
• Video Art
• Nam June Paik / Web Browser

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Academia, Festivals, Conferences,
Non-Profits, and Galleries
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• Academia
• NYU Interactive Telecommunications
  Program(founded 1979)
• MITs Media Lab(founded 1985)

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• Festivals Conferences
• ARS Electronica FestivalLinz, Austria (started
  1979)
• ISEA - Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
  (started 1988)

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• Online Communities
• Artnetweb
• Rhizome.org
• TheThing
• Physical Spaces
• Eyebeam
• Location One
• Art Interactive

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• Galleries
• Postmasters
• Gerring Lopez Gallery
• Bryce Wolkowitz
• Bitforms
• GIMA

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• Preservation
• Some artists provide CD-ROMs or other storage
  devices containing copies of work
• Some work takes a physical form
• Art Appliance
• Prints

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Has New Media Art run its course? Will it be
absorbed into the culture at large?
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• Resources
• New Media Art by Mark Tribe/Reena Jana
• Digital Art History edited by Bentkowska-Kafel,
  Cashen, Gardiner
• Digital Art by Christiane Paul
• The Worlds of Nam June Paik by John G. Hanhardt
• The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
• Internet Art by Rachel Greene
• New Media Reader edited by Wardrip-Fruin
  Montfort
• Digital Art for the 21st Century by Grant
  Vysniauskas
• Art of the Electronic Age by Frank Popper