digital art history.2

University of JyväskyläFeburary 18, 19 2013

TALAN MEMMOTT PhDBlekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

DIGITAL ART HISTORIES


DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2

TAAN MEMMOTT PhDBlekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

UFOSLillian Schwartz1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m42EZiY3a6s&feature=share&list=PL830068DA85A8FB47




The Artist and the ComputerLillian Schwartz (interview)

1976

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Nam June PaikMAGNET TEVELVISION WORKS

MAGNET TV1965

ELECTRONIC OPERA1969



Participation TVNam June Paik1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8K6qmHo8U4




Vasulka Video WorksWoody and Steina Vasulka

FLUX EXPLANATION HOME




PROBLEMS FOR NEW MEDIA ART

“DUCHAMP LAND”

ORIENTED TOWARD CONTENTCOMPLICATED

IRONICSELF-REFERENTIAL

DESTRUCTIVE TOWARD ITS OWN MATERIAL

“TURING LAND”

ORIENTED TOWARDS NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

SIMPLE LACKS IRONY

TAKES TECHNOLOGY SERIOUSLY

Lev ManovichThe Death of Computer Art

1996




PROBLEMS FOR NEW MEDIA ART

“DUCHAMP LAND” “TURING LAND”




PROBLEMS FOR (the object of) NEW MEDIA ART




PROBLEMS FOR THE NEW MEDIA ART (world)

“DUCHAMP LAND” / “TURING LAND”

The New Media Art world became inadequate to an art practice that was increasingly sharing the idea of art and the system of values of the contemporary art world. At the same time, however, most of the attempts made to bring New Media Art back to Duchamp Land failed as a consequence of an

approach based on importing the system of values of Turing Land into Duchamp Land. In the contemporary art world, art is not appreciated as creative research on a given medium, but as a

powerful statement on the world we are living in.

[The New Media] art world came into being as a cultural niche in the Sixties and Seventies, and became a bona fide art world in the Eighties and Nineties, developing its own means of production

and distribution, and cultivating an idea of “art” that is completely different from that entertained by the contemporary art world.

Domenico QuarantaThe Postmedia Perspective

2011




DESKTOP COMPUTING COMES HOME

TANDY TRS80

APPLE II

COMMODORE PET

IBM 5150




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