Lecture: September
1, 2000
Define
Cyber Art
Art made
with the electronic media for networked systems (most commonly
the Internet)
This may
incorporate the following electronic media:
Video
Audio (electronic music,
sound design, digitzed audio)
CD-Rom
audio CD
Dat
Tape
Art formats
may range from the following:
Web Site
Installation
WebCast
Brief
History of the Internet and Net.art, by no means comprehensive,
includes electronic media art
1970's
1973 DARPA
(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
initiates research
program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking
packet networks of various kinds"1
results in
the "Internet"
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
1986 Beginning
of educational use of Internet
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)
1989
Tim Berners-Lee
invents the World Wide Web (an internet-based hypermedia
initiative for global information sharing) while
working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990.
The first web browser to capture the public's imagination was
Mosaic, which was written by Marc Andreessen and other undergraduate
students at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) in the United States. Most of that group went on to form
the core of Netscape Communications Corporation.
1990's
1991 Internet
includes 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries, serving
over 700,000 host computers used by over 4,000,000 people."
1
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)
CRITIQUING
NET.ART
How
is net.art constrained?
monitor
restricts size, texture
bandwidth
reduces file size, capability
browser
versions and types alter layout, design, capability
access
to computer with Web hook-up
How
is net.art liberatory?
Some
questions you can ask of net.art work
who is
your audience?
what is
your subject?
how does
this work use the Net?
Discuss
from reading packet:
"net_condition"
Tilman Baumgartel, ArtByte, Jan/Feb 2000
net_condition
exhibit intro <http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e>
Art
Projects
ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, the art and
media institute in Karlsruhe, Germany)
For Peter Weibel, head of the ZKM and curator of net_condition,
has high hopes for the role net-art is about to play. Says he:
"At present, net art is the driving force, which is the most
radical in transforming the closed system of the aesthetic object
of modern art into the open system of post-modern (or second modern)
fields of action."
"Deconstruction
or Distraction?" Jon Ippolito, ArtByte,
Apr/May 1999
<jodi.org>
"a theme park of computer misbehavior"
Mel Bochner, "Working Drawings and other Visible Things on
Paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as
Art (originally installed in 1966 at the School of Visual Arts)
"Bochner's installation provokes comparison with Internet
culture on several levels, from its cross-contamination of art,
science, and business to its use of a mechanism of replication
as a mechanism of delivery."
More discussion
on this theme at Beyond Interface <http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyondinterface/>
Internet
History Source
A
Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks by Vint
Cerf
TOP
*will
have work in the Bookends conference in October
