THE NEW SCHOOL Creativity In the Media. THE NEW SCHOOL What was “The Hurt Locker” about?
What are new media?
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What are new media?
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To start with…
“Art is experimental, or it isn’t art” Who believes this crap?!
How can we broadly define Technology?
How can we define digital technology?
How can we broadly define Media? How can we define new media?
new media represents a convergence of two separate historical trajectories: computing and media technologies.
A brief history of new media Computer
Babbage & Turing Code Algorithm
Internet Connectivity
‘world wide web’ Content management/development Ubiquitous delivery
Web 2.0
Is photography static? Eadweard Muybridge 1878
Horses William Dickson and the Kinetoscope
Bitmap grids: scanning a 3D object [demo] Walter Benjamin: If an image can be
reproduced easily, where is the art? Digital imaging
Non-linear narrative Science as art? Time-based work a related part of how media
has changed due to computing technology
Marshall McLuhan
From Understanding Media (@0:41) The medium is the message?
Lightbulbs and video games I Haz Internetz? What is the message of Second Life?
Principles of Digital Media
Language of New Media<Lev Manovich>
1. Numerical Representation Mathematical in nature, manipulated by
algorithms In short, digital media becomes programmable.
2. Modularity LEGOs
3. Automation Halo
4. Variability Walter Benjamin
5. Transcoding Cultural layer vs. computer layer
Numerical Representation
jodi.org, 404, 1997
Corinne Vionnet, Photo Opportunities, 2005
Corinne Vionnet, Photo Opportunities, 2005
Modularity
Jim Campbell, Illuminated Average: Fleming’s Wizard of Oz, 2001
Jim Campbell, Illuminated Average: Hitchcock’s Psycho, 2000
Mark Napier, Shredder, 1998
Automation
MTAA, 1 year performance video, 2004
Variability
Josh Om, theyrule.net, 2001
Transcoding
Jim Campbell, Low Resolution Works: Home Movies, 2008
Joseph DeLappe, The Salt Satyagraha Online, 2008