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Lecture September
1, 2000
Define Computer Art
Art made
with the electronic media. The word "computer" is too
restricting to take literally.
- Video
- Audio (electronic
music, sound design, digitzed audio)
- Net.art
- CD-Rom
- CD
- Dat Tape
Art made
or enhanced by electronic media
- Performance
- Happening
- Musical Perfomance
- Dance
- Installation
- WebCast
Brief
History of Computer Art focusing--on electronic media, by no means
comprehensive
Influential
Movements 1930's-40's
Dada,
Futurist, Collage, Assemblage
1960's
First
Fluxus Festival (includes artists: George Maciunas, Trisha Brown,
John Cage, Walter De Maria, Yvonne Rainer,
etc.)
First
Electonic Music Festival (includes artists: John Cage, Robert
Morris, Yvonne Rainer, etc.)
Peformances
by Robert Wilson, Joan Jonas, Meredith Monk, Cage, Merce Cunningham,
David Tudor, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol.
1965 Nam
June Paik, first artist to use video, tapes shown at the
Cafe a Go Go, NYC.
1970's
Nam June
Paik founds Global Groove, laboratory to research the technical
possibilities of video
Performances
by Philip Glass, Wooster Group, Adrian Piper, Gilber & George,
Gary Hill*, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, etc.
1980's
Peformances
by Robert Wilson, Karole Armitage, Jan Fabre, and Stelarc*
Politically
focused artists: Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Guerrilla Girls,
Film/Video:
Mona Hatoum, Peter Greenaway
Jenny
Holzer (LED displays)
Sadie
Benning (Pixelvision diary movies)
1990's
Video
Performance: Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy
Matthew
Barney Cremaster series (high production art video transferred
to film/photo)
Tony Oursler
(video projected onto dolls)
Mariko
Mori (Japanese computer artist "high-tech cyborg")
Bjork
(video for "All
is full of Love", directed by Chris
Cunningham, combines computer and video imagery)
*will
have work in the Bookends conference in October
CRITIQUING
ELECTRONIC MEDIA ART
How
is this medium constrained?
How
is it liberatory?
What
makes it different from other media (drawing, painting, photography)?
Art Work
to look at on-line
(1997)
Cornelia Sollfrank "net.art generator"
http://www.obn.org/generator/
"
In spite of the playful attitude when dealing with the basic principles
of (net)art, the net.art generator raises a lot of important questions
on art in the information age. To mention a few: authorship, the
artist’s image, the original, the „material“ of digital media,
the definition of the oevre and the accessibility of digital art."
real[work]
catalog on Sollfrank
1993 Web
feature film "Waxweb"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/wax/
Projects
by Jenny Holzer, jodi.org, etc.
http://adaweb.com
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