Virtual Field Trip I: The Rise of East Asia Video Art + Visionary Company

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

Assignment III: Digital Art and Storytelling

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

Assignment 4: Automation & Emergence

Utilize Node.js and Arduino to create a communication via MQTT that sends and receives data from different remote users/systems. Create an installation scenario – where is this used, and why? Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Continue reading Assignment 4: Automation & Emergence

Week 2: Redefine New Media Art in 2-3 Sentence

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

Week 2: Reading II, Garden of Forking Path

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