A 20-minute introduction to the history of digital art.
Presentation for the symposium ‘Transformation Digital Art’
International symposium on the preservation of born-digital art
Stichting Behoud Moderne Kunst and LIMA, Amsterdam, NL
http://www.sbmk.nl/projects/detail/id/36
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Understand Digital Art Instantly
1. LIMA, February 19, 2016
Sandra Fauconnier
sandra.fauconnier@gmail.com
@sanseveria
2. history of digital art in 20 minutes
1. timeline
2. (themes)
new media art
information arts
computer art
digital art
tool vs medium
production
storage
characteristics
19. Zomerzegels 1970,
graphic design:
R.D.E. Oxenaar, in
collaboration with
the group
numerical control
of the department
business science
i.o., Technical
University
Eindhoven.
20. Zomerzegels 1970,
graphic design:
R.D.E. Oxenaar, in
collaboration with
the group
numerical control
of the department
business science
i.o., Technical
University
Eindhoven.
25. academia
research centers / labs
military-industrial complex
consumer culture
digital citizenship / activism
26. Leonardo Journal founded 1968
SIGGRAPH, first conference 1974
Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) founded 1979
V2_ (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) founded 1981
ISEA, first symposium 1988
ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) founded 1989
27. Aesthetics of the digital • Art and cinematography
• Artificial intelligence, intelligent agents • Artificial
life • Bodies, surrogates, emergent systems • Body
and identity • Charged environments • Coded form
and electronic production • Cyborg bodies •
Databases, data visualization, mapping • Gaming •
Generative tools • Mapping and text • Mobile and
locative media • Motion, duration, illumination •
Networks, surveillance, culture jamming • Photo /
byte • Public sphere • Simulations and simulacra •
Social networking • Sound and image • Tactical
media, activism, hacktivism • Technologies of the
future • Telepresence, telematics, telerobotics •
Text and narrative environments • Virtual worlds
Presentation for the symposium ‘Transformation Digital Art’
International symposium on the preservation of born-digital art
http://www.sbmk.nl/projects/detail/id/36
digital = using digits, particularly binary digits
digital signal = formed from a discrete set of distinguishable waveforms, not signals from continous ranges
highlights/canon/typical examples
Sources include
www.monoskop.org maintained by Dusan Barok
www.mediaartnet.org
archive.aec.at
‘Digital Art’ by Christiane Paul, Thames & Hudson, World of Art series, originally published 2003
‘Art and Electronic Media’ by Edward A. Shanken, Phaidon, 2009 – online companion at http://artelectronicmedia.com/
‘The Anthology of Computer Art / Sonic Acts XI’ by Arie Altena and Lucas van der Velden, 2006
‘Mapping the beginnings of computer-generated art in the Netherlands’ by Darko Fritz, 2011 http://virtueelplatform.nl/g/content/download/darko-fritz-nl-comp-art-n.pdf
1830s already: Charles Babbage, Analytical Engine
1940
Memex: article ‘As We May Think’ by Vannevar Bush 1945 – device that allows users to browse through documents via their own trail / direct data entry
ENIAC – Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer – University of Pennsylvania, 1946 – first general-purpose digital computer
Cybernetics coined by Norbert Wiener – comparative study of communication and control systems e.g. computer and human brain
1960
Theodor Nelson 1961 coined hypertext, hypermedia, networked docuverse – nonlinear
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 1957 US dept. of defense. ARPANET formed in 1969
Douglas Engelbart 1968 bitmapping: computer screen consisting of on/off pixels
1970
Xerox PARC: desktop metaphor with windows, popularized by Apple Macintosh in 1980s
image: Xerox Star workstation, commercially available from 1981
Dada poetry based on formal instructions, interplay of randomness and control
Flatbed drawing machine engineered by computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.
Originally intended for the production of maps and land registration purposes.
Georg Nees and Frieder Nake did their first computer art pieces on this device.
Whitney is considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation.
Generally agreed to be the first score composed by an electronic computer.
1st exhibition of this kind in the US
Works by A. Michael Noll and Bela Julesz
Toured the US too
Some pieces bought by Exploratorium
Inspired formation of the British Computer Arts Society
Series of exhibitions on visual research. The 4th, in 1968, included the computer as medium of artistic work.
9 evenings: October 1966
artists: John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman
engineers: Bela Julesz, Billy Klüver, Max Mathews, John Pierce, Manfred Schroeder, and Fred Waldhauer
AARON: computer program built by Harold Cohen to codify the act of drawing
Oxenaar used program called CORAGRAPH.
original Apple Macintosh, the Macintosh 128k, released in January 1984
some of my friends had Amiga’s etc
Montevideo was founded in 1978 by Rene Coelho
telepresence, art and communication, social implications of new technology
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NY
The Broadway department store, Los Angeles
narrative
Lorna, agoraphobic woman in her apartment, controlled by the viewer via remote control
First interactive video art disc
Migrated to DVD in 2004
art and telecommunication
context – platforms, networks
NY, Vienna, Amsterdam, Cologne, Berlin
BBS via telephone 1991
website 1995
narrative, virtual worlds
navigable on a stationary bike
cities Amsterdam, Manhattan, Karlsruhe
mapping, simulation
technologies of the future
founded 1988
data, activism
immersion
Japanese performance artist Akemi Takeya
Synthesized from one single recording