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.
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.
According to the author, Mark Tribe(2007), New Media art mostly describles projects that make use of emerging media technologies and “are concerned with the culture, political, and aesthetic possibilities of those tools.”
It is a conception in the cross range of Art and Technology(“practices, such as Electronic art, Robot art, and Genomic art”) and Media art(like Vedio art,Transmission art, and Experimental Film).
Since 2007, technoloy and media have been developed rapidly and there have been some new media art. For example, the technology of autostereoscopy gave the possibilites to immersive theater and special visual effects of exhibitions, party, or somewhere else.
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.
Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein.
It is one of the most famous works of pop art, and is one of Lichtenstein’s most important paintings.
About the author:
Lichtenstein had studied painting and drawing at Ohio State University before serving in the US Army. Later, in 1946, all of training programs(like for languages, engineering, and piloting) were canceled, he served as an orderly, draftsman and artist in noncombat roles, when he started his life of an abstract artist. According to his experience, his work first based on some cartoon chatacters and later (around 1963) typically focused on romantic situations or war scenes.
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Obviously, the theme of the work is about wars. And the mode of tech here is diptych painting which can be easily figure out from the gap line on the middle. Also, his work is a kind of comic books, as a genre were held in low esteem at the time.
Another work was called Velvet Strike, co-created by Anne Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, and Brody Condon(2002).
Velvet-Strike is a mod of the first-person shooter video game Counter-Strike.
The background of the work is tightly related to some violet issues in the reality. One is contemporary Middle Eastern politics. Besides, Velvet-Strike was created in response to the crude, propagandist atmosphere in the USA. It is There are pacifist ‘sprays’ in this work, and it is a subversion of Counter-Strike. Also, it includes some complex issues such as economics, religions, families, food, children, women, refugee camps, smell etc.
The technoical background of this work might be the popularity of network shooter games.
An interesting fact about the visual art game
“When Anne-Marie Schleiner and Joan Leandre met in Spain—around the same time that the United States was beginning to bomb and invade Afganistan—Schleiner was already interested in the politics of first person shooter games.”
