Example of Contemporary New Media Art #9

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #9

My ninth example of contemporary new media art is an installation and is called, “Liquid Space 6.0”. Daan Roosegaarde is the artist that created it and he has a fascination when it comes to using technology in his art. Liquid Space 6.0 is a form of interactive art that links four spheres by means of bundled flexible tubes that mysteriously light up. When people enter Liquid Space 6.0 they notice that it follows their movements, the tubes light up, and the movements of the visitor and the space fuse. The date of this installation was March 7, 2009 and its location is at Eendrachtsstraat 10

A link to “Liquid Space 6.0” by Daan Roosegaarde is located below:

http://www.v2.nl/

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #8

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #8

My eighth example of contemporary new media art is titled, “Follow Through” and was co-commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and Antenna Audio. It was exhibited as a mobile, audio-visual artwork and is accessible to museum spectators using portable media players. This project was created by both Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson and was initiated December 1, 2005 through January 29, 2006. This exhibition was inspired by the artist’s observations that the museum spectators would regularly display passive and lack luster body language observing the art on display. The artists are trying for the museum goers to have a more active role with this exhibition. The process involves the action of contemplating or interpreting the artwork by the museum spectators.

A link to “Follow Through” by Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson is located below:

http://artport.whitney.org/exhibitions/index.shtml

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #7

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #7

My seventh example of contemporary new media art is titled, “Watercouleur Park” and was created by a French group of artists known as Qubo Gas. Their individual names are Laura Henno, Jean-François Ablézot and Morgan Dimnet. They have been working together as a group since 2000. “Watercouleur Park” is an interactive graphic work made of layers of random drawings. The vegetation contained in each of the landscapes is also a random element. There are fourteen landscapes in total and drawn from a database of drawings. The project allows users to explore a virtual archive of collage work. They have the ability to modify, rotate and change their point of view. This work was launched in London from March 3 through May 12, 2007.

A link to the “Watercouleur Park” by Qubo Gas is located below:

http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/qubo_gas.shtm

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #6

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #6

My sixth example of contemporary new media art is titled, “1st Light” and was created by Paul Chan. Mr. Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and now lives in New York. Paul Chan is a major player in the world of American art and also gets quite involved in political activism. The article doesn’t list the location of the exhibition but it does list the date of the project as 2005. “1st Light” is a computer animated video and is a part of a series. “1st light” describes a religious vision of individuals resurrecting to heaven. Paul Chan made this exhibition in reference to the 9/11 tragedies. The floor projection shows shadowy silhouettes of bodies and everyday objects falling to the ground and then rising towards the sky. This digital video projection combines a sense of terror as well as a sense of utopia and hope.

A link to the “1st Light” projection by Paul Chan is located below:

http://www02.zkm.de/mediumreligion/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:paul-chan&catid=34:kuenstlerliste&Itemid=53&lang=en

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #5

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #5

My fifth example of contemporary new media art is titled, “Misplaced Reliquary” and is displayed online as internet artwork. It also exists as a physical installation with Gameboy Advance and Handmade Book. It was created by Paul Catanese and was commissioned in 2004 by Rhizome.org. Paul Catanese was trying to examine video gaming and its relation to the actual hunt. He had spent much time out in nature looking for bone fragments, fur and other small pieces that used to belong to small animals. The small animal fragments are shown on the web as well as in the physical installation. These picture files can also be seen using an actual Gameboy Advance. The physical installation includes a Gameboy Advance with a picture of one of the small animal fragments that Paul Catanese found in his journey out into nature. The installation also includes a book with field notes that Mr. Catanese had taken during his journeys out into nature

A link to the “Misplaced Reliquary” by Paul Catanese is located below:

http://www.paulcatanese.com/artwork/misplaced/index.html

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #4

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #4

My forth example of contemporary new media art is titled “Screening Circle” and is displayed on the World Wide Web. It was created by Andy Deck and was launched on March 22, 2006. The Screening Circle brings in the cultural tradition of the quilting circle into an online and virtual format. People that come to the website can enter the drawing area to create loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. These internet artworks can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be jumbled or precise. This artistic process allows users to add meaning to Andy Deck’s work through participation. Andy Deck has done much work in the realm of internet art and has done much research pertaining to the limitless possibilities of incorporating art into the internet. I myself enjoy this type of art work because it lets the audience interact more with the web and gives the web more of an artistic feel to it.

A link to the “Screening Circle” by Andy Deck is located below:

http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/screeningcircle/screeningcircle.shtml

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #3

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #3

My third example of contemporary new media art is titled “Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective”. It is a commissioned art form in which Tony Conrad addresses the massive area of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. It uses the central bridge as a stage and exposes the audience to his most recent exploration of projection and long duration on a major scale. This projection starts off with a tremendous sound that fills the Turbine Hall that incorporates a buzzing pulse at 25 per second. It also mixes in a string quartet including Tony Conrad on violin, an electric drill and hand-held phonograph arms. Projection screens were erected on both sides of the central bridge. Behind the projection screens, performance activities included a live music performance and re-enactments of alternative film production processes Tony Conrad developed in the mid-1970s. The audience would be present on the floor below looking at the massive silhouette of Tony Conrad. All this took place in July of 2008.

A link to “Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective” by Tony Conrad is located below:

http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/tony_conrad.shtm

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #2

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #2

My second example of contemporary new media art is titled “Abundance”. It was a temporary public installation created by Camille Utterback in 2007. It was commissioned for the City of San Jose in California. It was commissioned by ZER01, the Art and Technology Network. It is a night time installation and spectators interact with this art form in the city hall plaza. Part of “Abundance” includes a video camera at a high point and it captures the spectators moving around. An animation of what the video camera picks up is projected onto the 3 story rotunda. Besides the silhouettes of the spectators, Camille Utterback adds other elements to his projections. I like this form of contemporary new media art because it gives life to the San Jose City Hall. It beautifies the city hall and gives the spectators a sense of creativity and also gives them something to do in.

A link to “Abundance” by Camille Utterback is located below:

http://www.camilleutterback.com/abundance.html

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #1

Example of Contemporary New Media Art #1

My first example of contemporary new media art is titled “Under Scan”. It is a large-scale public art project by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The Installation was done at Trafalgar Square in November of 2008. The Public Portraits were at the Tate Modern Seminar Room in of September 2008. This involves hundreds of video-portraits projected onto the ground in Trafalgar Square. Anyone who was interested could have participated in this artwork by contributing their video portrait from September 19 to 21, 2008 at Tate Modern. The portraits were shot from above, as members of the public lie beneath a suspended camera. Each person could portray themselves any way they wanted to. I found this type of contemporary new media art very intriguing and I find it to be the next revolution in art.

A link to "Under Scan" and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is located below:

http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/underscan.htm

Summary of Sections X-XV

“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

By Walter Benjamin

Summary of Sections X-XV

The actors performance in front of the camera is pretty much everything to his or her career. Whether it is an actual film camera used to create a film or even news cameras used to report on the news. The actor is self-conscience at all times in front of whichever camera as to their performance in front of a viewing audience. Evan though the audience isn’t a live audience like in theater, the impact of the audience in the world of film and television is just as large or even larger.

Walter Benjamin looks at how a painter would compare to a camera man. Mr. Benjamin discusses that a painter distances himself from reality whereas a camera man jumps right into the realm of reality. From my understanding of it, it seems as if Mr. Benjamin is saying that a camera man has a better grip on recreating reality because of the technological advancement he has to work with. When art is mechanically reproduced it changes people’s reaction towards it. The world of film brings a large glimpse of the world and everything in it right into our living rooms. The meaning and effects of art changes through one medium to the next. How a painting is perceived in a museum may be perceived diferenty if it were displayed on the internet, in a magazine or even on a cereal carton

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

by Walter Benjamin

I have read this essay before in prior classes and the concept of "aura" has always intrigued me the most. I think that what Mr. Benjamin is talking about is that when we look at a certain object or even a piece of artwork we get a different sensation from it or aura if it were displayed through a different medium or period in time. For example, when looking at the Mona Lisa painting in a magazine versus actually looking at it while on a tour of the Louvre Museum you get a totally different feeling. When looking at the actual painting in the museum it evokes a different emotion and feeling all together. You would also have a different feeling towards it if you were looking right at the painting during the 16th century and standing right next to Leonardo da Vinci after he finished painting it.

That happed to me once when I went on a tour of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there I was able to see many famous paintings. One in particular was "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. I have a poster of this painting at home and have seen it numerous times in magazines and on the internet. It was a different aura entirely when looking at the real thing versus looking at the generic version of it in some magazine or the internet. Also, when looking at a generic version of something the image itself tends to change somewhat. The quality may not be as good as the original or it might have been enhanced to look better than the original. Also the original itself tends to change as time goes by do to weathering and also restoration as well.