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CTCS 505Interactivity in the Age of Electronic Media

New Media, Interaction and Art

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recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

21st Century Techniques of the Observer Are About Visualization

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New Media, Interaction and Art

recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

Interactivity Can Enhance the Aesthetics of an “Observers” Experience Through( Bodily) Interactivity

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New Media, Interaction and Art

recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

But, What Is The Interactivity?Where Is The Interactivity?

And Who Is Engaged In The Interactivity?

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New Media, Interaction and Art

recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

Interactivity?

Interactivity Is The Technology That Facilitates The Techniques of the 21st Century Observer

(Instrument)

and..

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New Media, Interaction and Art

recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

Interactivity?

The Interactivity Is The Aesthetics, Or The Meaning, Taken Away

From The Experience (Narrative)

and..

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New Media, Interaction and Art

recap

Digital Currents (Lovejoy)

Interactivity?

The Interactivity Is That Which Happens Amongst and Between

People

networks of coincidence, explored in Umbrella.net by katherine moriwaki and jonah brucker-cohenhttp://www.coin-operated.com

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

• Cultural Form Made Possible By The Computer

• Data Plus Algorithms• Tension Between Old and New

Forms of Cultural Expression• Early Stage of 21st Century Media• Same Thing Only Faster• Data Rendering and Visualization

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• The Internet

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• Virtual Reality QuickTime™ and aH.263 decompressor

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• Video Games

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• Geocaching

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

Hollywood Tic-Tac-Toehttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/usa/ca/hollywood_ttt.htm

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

Hollywood Tic-Tac-Toehttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/usa/ca/hollywood_ttt.htm

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

Landing at Heathrowhttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/air/berlin2london.htm

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

Landing at Heathrowhttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/air/berlin2london.htm

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

The Didcot Cathttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/didcotcat.html

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Cultural Forms Made Possible By The Computer

• GPS Drawing

The Didcot Cathttp://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/didcotcat.html

New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Data Plus Algorithms

•Procedural Interactive Art

Golan Levin, Yellowtail (1998-200)http://www.flong.com/yellowtail/index.html

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Data Plus Algorithms

• MAX/MSP + Jitter

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21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Tension Between Old And New Cultural Forms

• Machinima as “new” form of today’s conventional visual story telling

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21st Century New Media - What Is It?Early Stage of 21st Century (non-new) Media

• Forms and capacities for cultural expression that are today unexpected or singular yet will soon be conventional and wide spread.

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?

Early Stage of 21st Century (non-new) Media

• Forms and capacities for cultural expression that are today unexpected or singular yet will soon be conventional and wide spread.

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21st Century New Media - What Is It?Same Thing, Only Faster?

• Conceptual basis for something “new” exists prior to the capacity of “new” systems for executing

• The “new” quality arises out of a substantially distinct media that is not simply the old concept done quicker

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - What Is It?Data Visualization and Rendering

theyrule.orgfuturefarmers

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21st Century New Media - What Does It Have To Do With Interactivity?

• Interactivity In The Context of New Media Is What We Strive To Obtain

• Interactivity Is The Experience• Interactivity Is The Instrument

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21st Century New Media - What Does It Have To Do With Interactivity?

Interactivity Is The Experience

consider critter cam experiences as a form of new media interactivity.

what is the interactive experience?

critter cams allow us to interact with the habits and habitats of critters, providing an experience that orients our critter consciousness toward an empathetic and atavistic sensibility about (cyborg) critters..

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•21st Century New Media - What Does It Have To Do With Interactivity?

Interactivity Is The Instrument

what is the interactive instrument?

critter cams allow us to interact with critters using hacked digital video recording technology

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21st Century New Media - Art or Technology?

• Manovich tells us that “New Media” starts as art and ends as technology, commercialized and beyond the purview of art creatives

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New Media, Interaction and Art

21st Century New Media - Art or Technology?

• Art designs / crafts experiences• Technology designs / crafts instruments

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New Media, Interaction and Art

Project Ideas

• SubEthaEdit performance and explication of shared, proximity-based interactive experiences

• Visual story / narrative using video game footage

• Database narrative using found information artifacts

– Prelinger Archive– Google “Image” API

• Max/MSP Jitter Patch• Integrate Final Draft with Web-

based or Powerpoint-based storyboards

• Cut “My Three Sons” into “Double Indemnity”

sequences

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Essay Ideas

• Media / literature review of the “adoption” of films to video games

• Critique and analysis of a net.art project, video game, traditional film in the context of class insights and theoretical frameworks

• Analytic essay on the cyborg critters in National Geographic’s critter cam project