Digital Art(part two)

Themes, Issues and Concepts

AK 2100Art and Technology

General Themes in Digital Art

Artificial Life*Artificial Intelligence*Telepresence and telematicsIdentity and the BodyMapping, databases and visualizing dataNarrativeGames*Tactical Media and activism*

* to be addressed in future lectures

Telepresence and Telematics

- telecommunications art has a long history- use of phones, faxes, TV, satellite

communications, etc.- Roy Ascott: early pioneer- Global consciousness, connected intelligence- digital technology: being present in different

locations at the same time- robotics

Radio Controlled Robot, Eduardo Kac, 1986

Telepresence and Telematics

- telecommunications art has a long history- use of phones, faxes, TV, satellite

communications, etc.- Roy Ascott: early pioneer- Global consciousness, connected intelligence- digital technology: being present in different

locations at the same time- robotics

Hole-in-space, 1980: Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabionowitzhttp://www.ecafe.com/getty/HIS/

The Telegarden, Ken Goldbert and Jospeh Santarraomana

http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/

Telepresence and Telematics

Ken Goldbert and Joseph Santarromana, Mori 1995 - presenthttp://www.zakros.com/projects/mori/

Telepresence and Telematics

Eduardo Kac, Teleporting an Unknown State. 1994-6http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html

Telepresence and Telematics

Eduardo Kac, Teleporting an Unknown State. 1994-6http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html

Telepresence and Telematics

Erik Paulos and John Canny, Personal Roving Presence, 1997 - present

Telepresence and Telematics

Adrianne Wortzel, Camouflage Town, 2001http://www.camouflagetown.tv/

http://www.whitney.org/artport/exhibitions/datadynamics/wortzel.shtml

Telepresence and Telematics

Lynn Hershman, Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll (1995-8)

Telepresence and Telematics

Fakeshop (Jeff Gompertz and Prema Murthy)Capsule Hotel, 2001 - present

http://www.fakeshop.com/capsule_hotel/index_altbrowser.html

Telepresence and Telematics

- bodies have become increasingly transparent

- ubiquitous surveillance- multiple selves- online identity- relationship between virtual and physical

Body and Identity

Victoria Vesnahttp://vv.arts.ucla.edu/index.html

Monika FleischmannLiquid Views: The Virtual Mirror of Narcissus, 1992/93

Body and Identity

Body and Identity

Lea Chang

Guggenheim Museum, 1998

Based on accounts that were also used to create the movie Boys Don’t Cry

Exploration of multi layered narrative of gender and narrative

Eduardo Kac

"Time Capsule" is a work-experience that lies somewhere between a local event-installation, a site-specific work in which the site itself is both my body and a remote database, and a simulcast on TV and the Web. The object that gives the piece its title is a microchip that contains a programmed identification number and that is integrated with a coil and a capacitor, all hermetically sealed in biocompatible glass. The temporal scale of the work is stretched between the ephemeral and the permanent; i.e., between the few minutes necessary for the completion of the basic procedure, the microchip implantation, and the permanent character of the implant. As with other underground time capsules, it is under the skin that this digital time capsule projects itself into the future.

Body and Identity

Time Capsule: implanted microchiphttp://www.ekac.org/timec.html

Stahl Stenslie

the nature of digital perception

http://www.stenslie.net

Body and Identity

Body and Identity

The Leap

We think of personal space as something that belongs solely to ourselves. However, Boundary Functions shows us that personal space exists only in relation to others. Our personal space changes dynamically in relation to those around us.

Scott Snibbe

Body and Identity

Scott Snibbe, Boundary Functions, 1998 - http://www.snibbe.com/scott/bf/index.htm

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Martin Wattenberg and Marek WalczakThe Apartment, 2001 -

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/index.html

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Martin Wattenberg and Marek WalczakThe Apartment, 2001 -

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/index.html

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Benjamin FryData Visualization Valence, 1999 -

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Benjamin FryData Visualization Valence, 1999 -

http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/index.html

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

George LegradyAn Annotated Archive of the Cold War

http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/legrady.html

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

George LegradyAn Annotated Archive of the Cold War

http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/legrady.html

Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Next, CarnivorePE serves this data stream to interfaces called "clients." These clients are designed to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in various ways. Use CarnivorePE to run Carnivore clients from your own desktop, or use it to make your own clients.

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Alex Gallowayhttp://rhizome.org/carnivore/

- information has lost its body- information space- information architecture- visualizing the flow of data- materializing the virtual

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Nancy PattersonThe Stock Market Skirt

http://www.vacuumwoman.com/index.html

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Lynn HershmanSynthia, 2001

http://www.lynnhershman.com/

Art should show who we are, and technology is so much a part of who we are right now. I think technology today is what fresco painting was to the Renaissance— it’s that pervasive. By dealing with technology I can look at questions of originality, identity, media manipulation, surveillance, and loss of privacy. There are so many interesting areas: robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, digital sampling...

Lynn Hershman (Nancy Cooper Frank. The Nob Hill Gazette, Nov. 2002, http://www.ncooperfrank.com/work2.htm)

Mapping, databases and visualizing data

Judith Donath and Fernanda ViegasChat Circles

http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/

Chat Circles 3 is a graphical interface for synchronous communication that does not make use of representational graphics. Here, each participant is represented by a colored circle on the screen in which his or her words appear... Viewed over time Chat Circles creates a visual record of conversational patterns: one sees who are the active, animated participants and one can watch the emergence and dissolution of conversational groups.

http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/donath.html#ABSTRACT

Narrative

- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text

and word

Camille Utterback, Text Rain, 1999http://www.camilleutterback.com/

Narrative

- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text

and word

Camille Utterback, See Saw, 2001http://www.camilleutterback.com/

Narrative

- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text

and word

David Small and Tom WhiteStream of Consciousness, 1998

http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/http://www.davidsmall.com/

Narrative

- hypertext- performing the text- association- expanding the concept of narrative, text

and word

David Small and Tom WhiteStream of Consciousness, 1998

http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/stream/http://www.davidsmall.com/