1. New Media Art
-The text is from 2007. Almost 15 years on, describe your (updated) understanding of New Media Art in comparison to how the author defined it back then.
The new media art that the author defined is the digital image transmitted through a website, with some interactivity, using the screen as a canvas type of art to transfer the artist’s ideas. Due to the limitation of the technology back then, web-site-as-art-work does not have the flexibility and variability like it is in modern days. For jodi.org, it is much more like a chaotic show of flashing images, instead of art in my perspective.
-How do you think the conception of what New Media Art is or can be has changed since the text was published. Think of new technologies, apps, dominant themes, and media that have come to be dominant in our lives after the text was published.
Since the technological invention, new media art has more and more ways of expressing itself and the author’s own creativity, computer coding such as P5 JAVA is what I think is a much more advanced version of what jodi.org is capable of showing. This is how new methods of new media arts can be shown within the frame of the author’s definition of new media art. In the modern time, due to the vast new forms of technology, new media art does not limit to only web-site-as-art-work, or through only digital images, for example, on the form of technologies that surrounded the modern man’s life, 3D printing gives a physical way of putting the artist’s idea into reality, using CAD or 3D model, and the modern, accurate 3D printing technology, the artist’s idea can be created to live on a 1 to 1 scale, and the computer animation, or the modern anime itself is the representation of new media art.
2. Art Historical Antecedents, Themes, Tendencies
-The text mentions many artists and works and puts them into historical and thematic context. Pick two works (one created before the year 2000 and from after 2000) by two of the artists mentioned. To find these works, you may research beyond the text (use the internet). Describe the projects. You should at a minimum cover the following:
–short description
–short background information about the artist
–one paragraph that places the work into context. Similar to the way the author of the Reading does in his text, think about the historical antecedents, the themes and tendencies that your chosen work engages in, and the techniques used in their creation.
Short description： an ordinary piece made for plumbing purposes, however, Duchamp gives it a title and signs on it, and lets it sits in an unusual position.
Short background information about the artist: a French-American painter, sculptor, arts whose works associate with conceptual art.
One paragraph that places the work into context: The piece of “artwork” was a provocative attempt and a satire done by Marcel Duchamp, submitting a “readymade sculpture” that is the product made for plumbing, bought on the street corner with only a bare minimum amount of work done on it. Although the rule states that all works can be put on the table as long as the artist pays the fee, the work was never put in the show area.
Short description： a geo-spatial visualization system that reflects real-time data from the Internet onto a three-dimensional model.
Short background information about the artist: an American new media artist who uses electronics that are readymade or even handbuilt to create online galleries for works.
One paragraph that places the work into context: in 2001, Klima create an application that could collect interest data on geography and unitize these data to place visual representations, that is the stand alone earth published in 2001, which is a limited edition on the screen of only eight multimedia objects, and the same time an online, java browser edition of the same application. The next year, which is in 2002, he invented the 3D model version(actually its a projection on a ballon hanging on the ceiling).