- “Art of the Electronic Age“- book
- started back in the late 90’s researching digital art and its origins
- Frank Popper
- Cold war period and how types of computer developed during this period
- CACHE Project Archive
- Computer Art Society
- John Lansdown
- using computers for architecture, performance, animation, ect
- the transference from computers being large and only used by limited people to being smaller and in the home
- shifts in technology and culture
- early digital media doesn’t survive very well- mostly survives on paper, due to changes in formats and storage devices, and their fragility
- digital dark age came about due to these changes
- emulating old systems to archive older online/digital materials
- is everything worth saving, if we could save everything?
- Ideas Before Their Time, 2010
- Brian Peffin-Smith – big in the digital art scene
- is there a digital aesthetic? How can it be defined?
- an interchange between you and the machine/programme
- what is the computers most important contribution to visual arts?
- can the computer become a creative agent in its own right?
- inter connectivity of artists and makers via the internet
- features and “intelligent” programming can shape and try to dictate what you are creating- you can turn it off a lot of the time, but it can still help or hinder the creator
- the urge to fill empty spaces with imagery- colonising new spaces, such as the web
- Frieder Nake
- art as a commodity
- Computer Graphics and Computer Art– Herbert Franke
- the shift from the web being democratic and open to becoming heavily monetised and heavily marketed
- Warhol- works for Commodore
- why use modern technology in order to generate the most traditional formats of the art world? i.e. printing and framing digital art and putting it on the wall
- Gilbert and George- Ginko Pictures, 2005
- “Duchamp Land” and “Turing Land“
- using digital mediums as another form of artistic expression
- Senster– Edward Ihatowicz, 1970
- Scriabin- Prometheus
- is the digital a tool or a medium?
- Visual media Lumia
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