Digital Arts and New Media

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The two articles talk about how machine learning and artificially intelligent systems are actively intervening in our lives, proposing the underlying problems of its biased objectivity and danger in its exercise of power and corporate interests. “in order to truly hide from machine vision systems, the tactics deployed today must be able to resist not … Continue reading Reading III : Artificial Intelligence

LG z B158n 0mAd Fully Automatic (Front Load) Currently unavailable We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock. Brand will contact for free installation within 48 hours (installation may be delayed for containment zones) and due to the recent government restriction, installation service may be delayed. Contact brand for assistance … Continue reading Assignment VI: Electronic Device to Interactive Art

  For this assignment, I turned selected US Census Bureau retail sales data from 2019 to 2020 into a readable sculpture. In order to understand the sustaining commercialism and consumers’ behaviors during the pandemic, I create a sculpture that is accessible to read out the information and allows easy interpretation. The sculpture meant to show … Continue reading Assignment V: Post-Internet Art

Video Installation Concept This digital narrative installation is set inside a trash can. In order to watch the video, viewers need to look into the bin, which they normally wouldn’t even consider doing. The concept is based on the idea of commercialism, reflecting on the massive waste and environmental impact caused by commercialization. The food … Continue reading Assignment IV: Expansion of Digital Narrative Space

Wang Gongxin I was most impressed by Wang Gongxin’s video art in The Rise of East Asia Video Art exhibition. Wang Gongxin is a pioneer of avant-garde video and media art in China. His artworks concern with political and social issues, as well as history and tradition. He is credited as one of the first artists … Continue reading Virtual Field Trip I: The Rise of East Asia Video Art + Visionary Company

For this assignment, I used a split-screen for the entire length of the video. On the left side, I tried to simulate the surveillance of me working in the studio, monitoring every movement I made. On the right side is a screen recording of my laptop, monitoring what I was working on. In this way, … Continue reading Assignment III: Digital Art and Storytelling

Based on the understanding of the lecture today about New Media Art, Jack Burnham’s Systems Esthetics and your own research, come up with a statement on what New Media Art is in 2-3 sentences. Post your research and the sentence(s) as a blog post. A systems approach to creation, in which interactivity and connectivity are … Continue reading Week 2: Redefine New Media Art in 2-3 Sentence

Find phrases or words that explore ‘time’, and describe in what sense these ideas are related to “The Garden of Forking Paths” “An invisible labyrinth of time” “infinite series of time” “dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times” “network of times” “all possibilities of time” “various futures”, “innumerable futures”, “diverse futures, diverse times” The … Continue reading Week 2: Reading II, Garden of Forking Path

Hypertext Story It is a cold and breezy night. Streetlights illuminate the sidewalk ahead, the curved moon hangs high in mid-air, and the lush roadside trees seem to be greeting her arrival. Wearing an oversized black shirt and a pair of pleated pants in navy blue, I thought I look like a runway model, but … Continue reading Week 2: Hypertext Story