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