Suggest additions by email or on slack.
ISEA - Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts; runs annual conferences on new media and electronic arts - 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
A set of art and new media readings can be found at: http://www.ubu.com/papers/
See also the Readings section for many more texts, articles and readings you can look at.
Guides
Summaries of Major 20th Century Art Movements
Online Examples
Artists
Discover 20th century artists here:
Some specific Artists:
Articles
Texts
A Copy Of A Copy Of Another Copy: Appropriation Art Through The Ages!
Michalis Pichler’s Statements on Appropriation (2009)
Lawrence Lessig Free Culture - issues relating to copyright and copyleft that provide food for thought on appropriation in today’s context.
Marcus Boon, In Praise of Copying - see chapter 7 for a discussion of copying as appropriation.
Art Education Victoria Article on Borrowed Elements and Appropriation in Art
Sherri Irvin Appropriation and Authorship in Contemporary Art, British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2005), 123-137.
Greenberg, 1992 The Art of Appropriation: Puppies Piracy and Post-Modernism
Helen Charman and Michaela Ross, Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation, Tate Papers no.2
Jessica Morgan Political Pop: An Introduction, 1 September 2015
Video
Talks worth watching
As you start to think about your role in this course. It’s worth watching Zach Leiberman talk about hybridity around technology, art and computation…
Everything is a Remix Remastered
More examples at Kottke.org
There is a tonne of creative commons content on Flickr and Vimeo - there’s literally millions of videos! There’s also a huge list on creative commons content and audio too. Don’t forget: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Films
Wikipedia has for a list of public domain (no rights issues) movies.. See also: http://www.openflix.com ; http://www.infodigi.com/Public_Domain/films.html and https://archive.org/details/movies
For audio check out: https://www.freesound.org and http://ccmixter.org. LibreVox.org has public domain audio books. There’s also a lot of speaches and talks in the public domain . Many talks from conferences are also creative commons or public domain.
For images, check out Flickr and apply the creative commons filter when you search.
As always this is not exhaustive… but here’s lots of stuff to look at.
Good starting places to find more examples are:
There are more examples included below. Also check the resources section for the warmup and creative project for this module.
Survey of Alternative Displays - an incredible survey of approaches to media beyond the screen. Read it!
Travis Threlkel on Projection Mapping: How it works and how to use it
A lot of content from EyeO, Resonate and Inst-Int is really relevant. Check them out. Here are a handful of talks on media installations that I think you’ll get a lot from:
Eyeo 2014 - Mimi Son and Elliot Woods - Drawing in the Air – Mimi Son and Elliot Woods talk about their ongoing wander between the realms of material and immaterial, creating speculative visual objects which poke at the unpredictable attributes of things when they are touched with technology. Without giving any fixed meaning to the act of ‘drawing’, they play with material, space and light, whilst developing new paradigms and theory for discussing emerging canvases. They study existing knowledge of drawing, material, space and motion, explore and investigate new technologies, and criticize the relationship between knowledge of reality and experience.
INST-INT 2013 - Camille Utterback - Backup Plans – How do you deal with the unexpected when designing and installing media installations? More importantly, are there any best practices to anticipate and mitigate the negative effects of the unexpected? In Camille’s career as an installation / public artist, the unexpected has run the gamut from architectural constraints, to building codes, to construction delays, to difficult project managers, to aesthetic issues, to information access, to changing and obsolescing technology. She will discusses lesson learned, and lays out some helpful tips for proposals, contracts, budgets, maintenance, and back up plans of all sorts. At their best, creative back up plans ultimately allow for more risky work.
INSTINT 2014 - Kyle McDonald - Space Filling – How to make big work on a small budget with a small group of people. Experiences with array aesthetics, computer vision and machine learning for understanding large spaces, the potential for sound and light to fill a room, and how to generally have a big impact with a simple gesture. What happens when you get together 50 speakers, mirror balls, or LCD screens? These aren’t facade-covering, atrium-filling pieces, but they’re experiments with space and collaboration at a scale somewhere between “personal project” and “massive architectural installation” with some of the features of both.
INSTINT 2014 - Jen Lewin - Please Touch The Art – For the last 15 years Jen Lewin has been creating large, immersive, interactive art pieces for the public. From interactive sound and light sculptures that inspire people into play, to woven fiber video curtains that reflect movement, or giant, robotic, ethereal moths that dance based on human touch. Lewin’s ability to utilize technology as a medium is rare and unprecedented. She brings an organic, feminine quality to her electronic work that leaves viewers enchanted and surprised.
INSTINT 2015 - Rachel Wingfield - “Experiments from a Spatial Laboratory” – Rachel is a designer, researcher, educator and co-founder of Loop.pH. She speculates on near and far future scenarios that explore emerging biological and technological futures by crafting space, technology and living materials into visionary experiences and environments. She’s interested in what motivates people to create and act in the world. She’s curious about how speculation leads to experimentation & action and how non-architects can transform the built environment.
Eyeo 2013 - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Antimodular – Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer presents his recent interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art.
omote / real-time face tracking & projection mapping
Urban Intervention Projects
Other (Non-Media) Installation Projects
Just Something Beautiful
Aggregators
Emergent Performances
Motion Banks
People
New media
Techniques
Groups & Companies
Conferences
Sites
Documentaries on Movement and Performance
Talks worth watching
A lot of content from EyeO, Resonate and Inst-Int is really relevant. Check them out. Here are a handful of talks on media installations that I think you’ll get a lot from:
INSTINT 2014 - Klaus Obermaier - Interactive Installations vs. Interactive Performing Arts – For more than 20 years I’ve worked with interactivity in both performing arts as well as in user installations. What are the similarities in these works and what differentiates the two settings, especially in view of the different requirements and goals? I will also present the research project ”(st)age of participation“, a collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, which explores situations in which the audience can interact with professional performers.
INST-INT 2013 - Mary Franck - Intimate/Immersive – From minute to monumental, video installations allow for different visual composition than conventional screens. In this talk Mary scratches the surface of historical context, science and composition theory for experiential media.
Eyeo 2013 - Jake Barton - Improvisation & Technology – Just say yes. Don’t be afraid of failure, be afraid of obsolescence. Always look at a project like you’ve never seen it before. Nothing ages worse then technology.
INSTINT 2015 - Toni Dove - Engines of Change – Toni talks about 4 large scale projects that are experiments in responsive environment and cinematic narrative.She’s been evolving a language that uses embodied interface to allow viewers, live musicians and/or performers, to play a media engine as an instrument. These engines combine cinematic narrative, robotic screens for three dimensional projection, and responsive sound.
Eyeo 2014 - Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat - We Can Dance – Daily tous les jours’s quest is to find new ways of living together through the design of large scale interactive installations. One challenge we gave ourselves is to connect strangers to places and to each other through dancing. Together. In public. And so we brought together choreography, public engagement and place making. We’ll share adventures and insights gained along the way.
Eyeo2012 - Panel: Performance and Data - Performance and Data – Embodied, Rehearsed, Theatrical practices of Data Representation. “When we think about data representation, we often think inside the boundaries of print and screen-based communication. But, what about performance?” Panelists Golan Levin, Shantell Martin, Jonathan Harris and moderator Mark Hansen will discuss their experiences with incorporating data into performative acts, both musical and theatrical.
There are no additional resources for this module. You should independently research and explore relevant content. Refer to the resources from the previous modules as a starting point in this exploration.