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Topic: New Media Art


  
  New media art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New media art (also known as media art) is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century.
traditional painting, sculpture, etc.) 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.
The origins of new media art can be traced to the moving photographic inventions of the late 19th Century such as the zoetrope (1834), the praxinoscope (1877) and Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope (1879).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_media_art   (375 words)

  
 Art Education and New Media
The use of new media in art education is a constantly evolving field, and some of the ways in which we perceive what computers do or how they should be used in education must come from sources of knowledge about art making, teaching and the world in general.
Art, Education and New Media, the third and newest track in Massachusetts College of Art’s nationally recognized, 36 credit, Master of Science in Art Education, prepares educators in the theoretical and practical applications of new media and underlying educational theory.
In this way, students learn to critique and develop new media projects in educational settings from an artistic point of view, making sure that imagination, art making, and course development are not limited by current technology.
www.massart.edu /at_massart/academic_prgms/graduate/art_ed/new_med.html   (233 words)

  
 New Media Caucus - Art and Technology
The New Media Caucus is a non-profit, international membership organization formed to advance the conceptual and artistic use of digital media.
The caucus represents artists whose media are expanding with developments in digital technology and artists working in newly emerging media such as robotics, virtual reality, interactive and installation environments as well as artists working in established digital areas of video, sound and graphics.
New Media Caucus members, Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art and Gail Rubini, Associate Professor of Design at Florida State University will be curating the New Media Caucus work.
www.newmediacaucus.org   (647 words)

  
 Chubb Collectors
New media art is meant to be new, and different.
When pondering new media art as a commodity, it is clear that the genre is appreciating, but, as with all art, unpredictable.
New media art appears to be here to stay, and with technological advances it will be fascinating to watch it evolve.
www.chubbcollectors.com /Vacnews/index.jsp?SectionId=12   (1346 words)

  
 New Media Art - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
New media art is an exciting and integral part of the contemporary art scene in Australia.
New media art, as defined by the Australia Council, is a process where new technologies are used by artists to create works that explore new modes of artistic expression.
The potential of new media is limitless and Australian artists stand at the forefront of the new media art movement.
www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/newmedia   (661 words)

  
 TASCHEN Books: Art - All Titles - New Media Art - Facts
New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain.
Many New Media artists are profoundly aware of their art historical antecedents, making reference to Dada, Pop Art, Conceptual art, Performance art, and Fluxus.
His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media and the Ars Electronica Festival, and he has curated exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and MASS MoCA.
www.taschen.com /pages/en/catalogue/books/art/all/facts/03684.htm   (463 words)

  
 Collectivate.net - 'journalisms' - Curating New Media Art
Throughout the discussion the marginal role of media art curators in museums was bemoaned.
The clear and present danger is that of a further ghettoization of media art in which friends and friends of friends visualize their networks of friends in exhibitions and catalogues.
There is nothing wrong with that but in new media it causes a narrow focus of many curators who attach themselves to two or three artists who are "tested and true" and may become part of a canon.
collectivate.net /journalisms/2006/4/11/curating-new-media-art.html   (2082 words)

  
 Architecture / Fine Arts Library : 54.320 Art in New Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Media Encyclopedia - A source of information, a tool for documentary research, and a scholarly work, but also a locus of debate on artistic practices related to the new media.
In their words, "new media art" means any type of contemporary art that uses new media technology.
Rhizome's activities focus on: presenting artworks by new media artists, critics and curators; fostering critical dialog; and preserving new media art for the future..
www.umanitoba.ca /libraries/units/archfa/newmediahd.shtml   (715 words)

  
 Wired News: Anything New in New Media Art?
NEW YORK -- Just when it seemed like new media art is old news, suddenly it's become big news again.
The previous Biennial -- the first to include Net art -- was criticized for its poor display of websites in a separate small gallery that was often closed due to technical difficulties.
Some art world insiders think just getting the Whitney’s stamp should be gratifying enough for the artists, no matter what flaws a supersized Biennial might potentially have.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,48728,00.html   (647 words)

  
 art and new media studies
The re:place 2007 conference will be devoted to examining the manifold connections between art, science and technology, connections which have come into view more sharply through the growing attention to media art and its histories over the past years.
EKC 2007 will explore the theme of New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines to examine what is understood and accepted as new knowledge in research and in creative practice, and what their role and relationship might be.
Firstly, the concern for 'new knowledge' arises because research is defined in terms of the original contribution to knowledge or understanding.
coursesnewart.blogspot.com   (1593 words)

  
 Singapore: Art and New Media
Arts organization which challenges the concept of museum as institution, currently directed by Tien Wei Woon (Singapore), Oyvind Renberg (Norway) and Miho Shimizu (Japan).
Laboratoy for art and new media at the National University of Singapore.
Initiative of the National Arts Council to facilitate collaboration among local government agencies, international arts organizations, media experts and critics.
www.universes-in-universe.de /asia/sgp/e-media.htm   (276 words)

  
 New-media art education and its discontents Art Journal - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The issues include the demands of undergraduate students for vocational training, the isolation of new-media art in the university lab, the lack of advanced debate about new-media artwork, the introduction of Open Source Software in the classroom, the meaningful use of theory, and the media-specific structure of most departments.
Free Cooperation: Networks, Art, and Collaboration, an April 2004 conference at the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reflected on new educational models in new-media education and the negotiation of the ground rules for collaboration.
For media artists, collaboration and consultation are inevitable, as technology-based artwork requires deepening levels of specialization to bring together technological and conceptual components.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_1_64/ai_n13783969   (840 words)

  
 New Media Initiatives Blog » New Media Art
Media Arts lectures although there are some lectures related to Arts and Sciences that look interesting too.
Steve Dietz the former New Media Curator at the Walker was quoted twice in the article.
I somehow missed the opening of The Art Formerly Known As New Media at the Walter Phillips Gallery but I was able to experience it in part through these images of the show being installed.
blogs.walkerart.org /newmedia/?cat=4   (2233 words)

  
 newmediaFIX
An ambitious project to create one of the largest new media exhibition and experimentation centers in Latin America is being developed and implemented at the Centro Cultural San Martin.
Its purpose is to promote new high-tech art, and to foster communication between the manufacturers/creators of this new technology and those who create art.
Responding to a series of ideas which have appeared in various net contexts, New Media Fix will be featuring an ongoing editorial project on sound and audio-based artworks which utilize audio as a means to break spatial conventions and/or to problematize the idea of location.
newmediafix.net   (2994 words)

  
 MTR | Beyond TV
New media represents not only the remediation of TV and radio, but also the convergence of sound, image, the human body, and the real world, all integrated into an immersive experience that mixes the virtual and the real.
Ultimately, that may be new media's greatest gift to the future: a revolutionary way for people to communicate across physical and cultural boundaries.
His screen-based interactive art installations have been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Directors Club of New York, Galapagos Art Space, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Tisch School for the Arts, among others.
www.mtr.org /events/beyondtv/index.htm   (1481 words)

  
 New Media Art Works
New Media Art is art originated or re-imaged in the "digital domain", that is, through the use of computer processing.
Although there will surely be borderline cases, the essential test of whether art is new media or not is whether the essence of the art piece is created through such processing. 
The site will provide new media artist listings and publish articles by artists and suppliers of equipment and materials that advance the topic of new media art.
info-newmediaartworks.home.mindspring.com   (172 words)

  
 New Media Art
New media art projects use new technologies such as computers, information and communications technology, virtual or immersive environments, or sound engineering to create works.
In this way, the new technologies are a tool in the making of work, rather than the subject of the work itself.
As materially intense new media technology become just another creative tool artists and their works become increasingly disconnected from their global dwelling.
beverlytang.com /art/new_media_art   (274 words)

  
 Wired News: Is New Media Art Collectible?
While the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Whitney Museum have already added Web-based artwork to their permanent holdings, private collectors have seemed less than eager to respond by buying works in new media.
The conference, "Concept to Practice: A Panel Discussion on Collecting New Media Art" was organized by Gen Art, a national non-profit dedicated to exposing emerging visual artists, fashion designers, and filmmakers to new opportunities.
Of the collectors, who wished to stay unnamed, two were unavailable to participate in the 25 March event, and the other two declared themselves too new to the area of new media art to comment in a public arena.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,11161,00.html   (746 words)

  
 New Media art festivals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DEAF - Dutch Electronic Art Festival is a biannual international festival for electronic art, presented by V2, Institute for the Unstable Media, in Rotterdam.
Multiplace - new media culture festival which lacks the central organization, it is rather an collective effort of various organizers and associations responsible for the projects at different locations in Slovakia, Czech republic and others.
Its focus is on emergent forms and techniques within media based arts practice and places a particular emphasis on encouraging young and emerging artists to interact with established artists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Media_art_festivals   (448 words)

  
 ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
Each issue highlights artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound.
ASPECT, the biannual new media art DVD magazine, is proud to announce the launch of its new and improved website.
ASPECT always strives to be the best resource for new media art, and the new website is another way for us to be the leading resource.
www.aspectmag.com   (179 words)

  
 Cool Hunting: New Media Art
Like most movements, "New Media" is not without its overarching generalizations, generic definitions, and ivory tower theories.
The recent book New Media Art by Rhizome founder Mark Tribe and art critic Reena Jana anthologizes some of the innovative artists in the field, documenting a moment when the genre is at its apex (or over, according to some).
This Friday, 2 June 2006, stop by The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York for a reception from 6:30-8:30 pm and a brief reading by the authors or pick it up from Taschen or Amazon.
www.coolhunting.com /archives/2006/05/new_media_art.php   (641 words)

  
 Collecting New Media Art
While new media art is one of the most exciting new genres of contemporary art, it also raises a number of concerns among collectors considering collecting new media art.
Digital art can be easily duplicated and indistinguishable copies of a work could be introduced into the market similar to pirated software.
For many new media artworks, this presents a challenge of how to preserve the integrity and authenticity of a digital work.
www.digitalsouls.com /collecting-new-media-art.html   (503 words)

  
 BBC News | NEW MEDIA | Brit art gets mobile
New British art can now be downloaded onto your mobile phone thanks to a collaboration between phone manufacturer Vodafone and the internet art gallery Britart.
He added: "We feel that it's work made by artists and meant to be art - which seems to achieve a higher degree of artistic integrity then when someone like a graphic artist is simply told to produce something.
But David Lee, art critic and editor of Jackdaw magazine, was sceptical of the value of the works - even at 36p each.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/new_media/1452405.stm   (377 words)

  
 CENTRE FOR NEW MEDIA ARTS
CNMA is a centre dedicated to creative applications of new technology and artistic practice and offers studies in new digital sound and image technologies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
CNMA’s interdisciplinary pursuits within the arts and the sciences associate it with other academic and artistic centres through Australia and around the world, our success is shown through the achievements of staff and students research and their arts practice.
The Interactive Digital Media Stream is a sequence of study that will deal with various modes for producing and presenting art that incorporates a range of digital media.
www.anu.edu.au /newmedia   (643 words)

  
 New Media Art History - Main.Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This course will explore developments in 20th-century art with a focus on artists' practices that examine or embrace new circumstances in the media and technologies of their time.
The term 'new media' will be treated broadly, including developments in film, photography, and radio, as well as the beliefs and expectations that accompanied new technologies.
Themes and subjects to be covered will include the changing conception of the function of art and the role of artists; the relation of mass media culture, art, entertainment, and propaganda; art as communication; intellectual property in digital culture; museums and dematerialized artworks.
www.artcontext.org /edu/sva/newMediaArt   (191 words)

  
 Gary Hill / Bruce Nauman: International New Media Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hill’s approach, which is less autobiographical than Nauman’s, physically connects the viewer to the images and language of the new moving image technology.
These new acquisitions reflect the Gallery’s growing commitment to collecting and exhibiting contemporary international art in general and New Media art in particular.
A catalogue containing texts by several international experts on New Media art will be published to accompany the exhibition.
www.nga.gov.au /press/MediaArt.htm   (431 words)

  
 New Media Art - History - Billy Kluver - M/Cyclopedia of New Media
The people at Bell Labs recognized that one way to accelerate the possibilities of new innovations was to meld the imagination of artists with the possibilities of the future.
Tinguely was looking for help in designing his self destroying machine, which was to be displayed in the garden for the Museum of Modern Art and was to be called Homage to New York.
Giving rise to the inter media that characterized the period, as well as establishing a base for the Multimedia Art of today (Johnston, 2004).
wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php/New_Media_Art_-_History_-_Billy_Kluver   (725 words)

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