The text you were given last week
'From Celluloid to Cyberspace'
was for you to read through
from the text's page 23
'The Development of the Media Arts'
to page 32.
Please comment on the text and your thoughts regarding what you have understood, what you question or what you may perceive as being contrary.
I have attached a link to the document below again for you.
The Development of the Media Arts Chapter 3
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Thanks
Owen Kydd video works @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery NYC
Ryota Kuwakubo_ The Tenth Sentiment
Michael Staniak (Australian Artist) Tops Phillips London Digital Art Auction
Michael Staniak @ Artereal Gallery< Sydney Australia
a) Media art incredibly broad, no distinguishable definition or procedures, possibly due to its age? Possibly due to its critical influence - technology - which is in a constant state of flux.
ReplyDeleteb) This text makes me wonder what the current relationship between hollywood and commercial film and media art.
The breadth of the area often confuses audiences, artists or curators, collectors. It embraces so many disciplinary areas that artists who seek to explore contemporary ideas or issues often utilise media technologies to express or structure their concepts and practice (which would seem appropriate in terms of truth to materials or 'the medium being the message'). Artists like Naim June Paik, Bill Viola, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, camille Scherrer (http://new-art.blogspot.com.au/search/label/digital) Ryoto Kuwakubo (http://2014.perthfestival.com.au/Whats-on-by-Genre/Visual-Arts/The-Tenth-Sentiment) all exhibit different ideas or interpretations of how media is used in the creation of an artwork.
ReplyDeleteIt is still very young in its history yet it has swallowed many previous technologies as computers and multimedia devices continue to evolve and where artists continue to explore ways of creating media art relevant to their lives or experiences. The ongoing hybridisation of art making where technologies increasingly slip between disciplinary definitions, where photography is like drawing or basic documentation, where video is accessible to everyone (even if they do not understand editing), where 'the web' is the distribution area of the 21st century. What we create and how we promote our work becomes increasingly important.
The new media environment on the whole is confusion, the diversity within media arts is totally confusing, t. The way we consume information has changed dramatically since the arrival of the internet (and continues to do so). Traditional media e.g. hollywood, newspapers and TV seem to be in real trouble. However, for the arts, the new media landscape feels more like a new frontier for artists to explore and help define - without necessarily being a threat to traditional art forms.
ReplyDeleteIt seems over the years that the fine line between art and technology has broken down and integrated to help make contemporary masterpieces become both more complicated yet simplified. Ideas and opportunities that could not have been made possible in the past centuries have become reality through modernization. The limited resources that once could only have been accessed by tech wizards have now become household items for the present generations. It's safe to say that we as artists and/or designers are in the foresight of revolution and in the right place at the right time to combine ideas and creative thinking by connecting with each other with the help of the greatest technological inventions that have been made abundant for us. And it is these technological inventions (the camera, radio, television, internet) that has helped the art industry reshape and renew the viewer's minds and help them see the world in a brighter light that is the media.
ReplyDeleteUnlike other mediums of art, Media art doesn't have a long history to develop definitive terms and processes, meaning that analysis and critique of Media art also lacks the boundaries that history creates. Media art also encompasses such a large range of media forms and processes, that makes pinning down a set of terms far more difficult than in more traditional art forms. I'm interested in how film art and mainstream film are analysed and critiqued differently, even though they are using the same technology and process.
ReplyDeleteWhen I initially read this text I was still confused as to what it was trying to say, but just seeing the activities and projects that everyone has started has helped me gain understanding of the text more. Although I probably can't fully explain what media arts is or what its boundaries are! Now I can start to comprehend how media art has evolves with technology, how technology is a big part of art and how not everything in media art needs an answer.
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