Author: Ninj Tumurkhuyag

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DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

The words that explore “time”: 

  • Series of time : Infinite narrative of stories happening in one episode 
  • Multiverse: Multiple paths during the storytelling process of the passage. 
  • Delusory: Yu Tsun and Albert were in a secret multiform of other dimensions of time, which was delusive. 

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My story is how I got into NYU Shanghai and why:

It all started with one picture I took on my phone and that was when my small interest towards photography got enlarged. From taking pictures of the city and landscapes to staged portraits, I became more and more attracted to the art of photography and was given my first ever digital camera by my uncle as a compliment, which later made me decide to follow up my dream of becoming a talented photographer and filmmaker. To study this field more thoroughly, I decided to go abroad and chose NYU as my university and IMA as my major to deepen my knowledge about arts in general. And got welcomed by the NYU Shanghai community, I am now here chasing my goal.

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DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA

What is New Media Art?

Defining new media art is just as hard as defining what art is, but from the word “New media”, it is a form of art that is made with the combination of new media technology and traditional art forms.

Though it can be created in many ways, new media arts are mostly created by digital age technologies such as net art, mixed media, computer-based arts, photography, videography.

Lastly, the most significant thing about new media art is that it is a collaboration between the art creator and the observer and by that means, it gives the audiences a chance to interact with the artwork rather than just looking at it. 

Nam June Paik – TV Buddha, 1974

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Rafaël Rozendaal – Permanent Distraction, 2021

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Hito Steyerl – Factory of the Sun, 2016

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Roy Ascott – La Plissure du Texte, 1982

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DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA

Systems Esthetics by Jack Burnham

Evolution to abstract and nonobjective art

 

Systems oriented culture, explained by Burnham, is how the culture of art has changed from object oriented to systems-oriented culture, and system by means it focuses mainly on conceptual ideas rather than material. Systems can be ideas, people, messages, power source and atmospheric conditions, while it also needs an input to create an output, and depending on the throughput, the output can be changed.

To explain with an example, Olafur Eliasson, Icelandic-Danish artist who installed large amounts of ice blocks outside the Tate Modern museum in London tried to raise awareness about climate change. To connect this public art created by Eliasson with Burnham’s idea, an artwork that physically makes a reaction to its environment is not seen as an object, but rather understood as a system. His definition of systems is said by himself “A sculpture that physically reacts to its environment is no longer to be regarded as an object. The range of outside factors affecting it, as well as its own radius of action, reach beyond the space it materially occupies. It thus merges with the environment in a relationship that is better understood as a system of interdependent processes. These processes evolve without the viewer’s empathy. He becomes a witness. A system is not imagined, it is real”.