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Posted Free stop-motion software for PC's to Experimental and Media Arts Spring 1601 - 003
http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html...
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Posted Artist Presentation to Experimental and Media Arts Spring 1601 - 003
Pick one piece that was presented: What was the goal/theme behind the artist's work? What feeling did you get while viewing the work? What was it that made you feel this way? What did you like or dislike, why?...
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Posted Brothers Quay Artist Response to Experimental and Media Arts Spring 1601 - 003
Street of Crocodiles link Post a response to the Brothers Quay video we watched in class on Tuesday, "Street of Crocodiles." What kind of narrative did you get from the viewing experience before we discussed "Street of Crocodiles," and why...
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Posted William Kentridge - Anything is Possible to Experimental and Media Arts Spring 1601 - 003
Post a 150 word response to the William Kentridge video we watched in class. Watch the full episode. See more ART:21. What techniques does Kentridge use to create each environment, emotion, and character in each of his films? Make a...
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Posted Audacity test file to Experimental and Media Arts Spring 1601 - 003
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Posted Krzysztof Wodiczko's <em>Tijuana Project</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In 2001, Wodiczko projected the faces of women on the surface of an Omnimax Theater in Tijuana. In his work, he confronts the viewer with his large scale projection, as well as gives a voice to the female workers of...
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Posted Adriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis <em>Desktop Theater</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In the 1997 piece Desktop Theater, Jenik and Brenneis use the internet to stage a performance with avatars inside a chat room....
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Posted Bill Latham <em>H00D2</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In H00D2 (1995), Latham digitally manipulates the image by using a set of algorithms to produce artificial organisms....
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Posted Charlotte Davies <em>Osmose</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
Charlotte Davies 1995 piece Osmose was an interactive virtual reality in which the user wears a "head-mounted display" and a tracking vest to monitor their breathing. Once "inside" the piece, the user is able to navigate different levels through their...
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Posted Jeffrey Shaw <em>The Legible City</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In Shaw's The Legible City from 1989, the user rides a stationary bicycle and navigates one of three cities, Manhattan, Karlsruhe, or Amsterdam. The bicycle is able to navigate through text of words and phrases that are directly proportional to...
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Posted Institutions for Digital Art to Alternative Media Timeline
There have been several institutions put into place to showcase digital art such as the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, the ICC in Tokyo or the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria which are produced with support from organizations such as...
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Posted Eduardo Kac <em>Teleporting an Unknown State</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In Teleporting an Unknown State (1994-6), Kac has placed a single seed in the gallery on a pedestal. Via the web, users are able to log on and turn a light on or off, thus affecting the growth of the...
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Posted Marina Abramovic's <em>Rhythm 0</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In Abramovic's Rhythm 0, she lays out a series of objects within the gallery for those in attendance to use on her body as they chose. Among those objects was a gun with a single bullet. Audience members cut the...
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Posted Richard Serra <em>Television Delivers People</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In Serra's 1973 piece, Television Delivers People, the video is scrolling text, on a television screen, telling the viewer of their own consumption, that they have been tricked by mass media, and that every action taken by society at large...
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Posted Dan Graham's <em>Two Consciousness Projection</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In Two Consciousness Projection (1973), Dan Graham has begun to explore the active viewer vs. the passive viewer. Two people are asked to speak about the other while being videotaped in front of an audience. Their faces are projected on...
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Posted Steina and Woody Vasulka's <em>Calligrams</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
Like Stan Brakhage had done with the medium of film, The Vasulkas began to manipulate the form of video in Calligrams. During the transmission of the recorded video, they would manipulated the image with different tools, creating abstract shapes, and...
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Posted Vito Acconci <em>Claim</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In his piece, Claim, Acconci sits in the basement of a gallery, blindfolded with a crowbar, while he is being recorded on a live feed to the gallery above. He recites, "I don't want anybody to come down here, I...
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Posted Graphic User Interface to Alternative Media Timeline
In the 1970s, Alan Kay developed the Graphic User Interface or GUI out of Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California. This is was the "desktop" metaphor with its layered windows which would be popularized by the Apple Macintosh computer in...
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Posted Xerox PARC to Alternative Media Timeline
Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre was a research institution that resulted from the Vietnam War in the 1970s....
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Posted The Paik-Abe Synthesizer to Alternative Media Timeline
The Paik-Abe Synthesizer was built in 1969 and named after Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe. It was a self-contained unit and it allowed the user to add color to a monochrome video image, and distort the image (Meigh-Andrews 116)....
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Posted Click and Drag Mouse to Alternative Media Timeline
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart introduced the ideas of bitmapping, windows, and the click and drag mouse. This established a direct connection between the electrons running through the computer and the image on the screen....
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Posted Guy Debord/The Situationists to Alternative Media Timeline
Guy Debord was one of the founders of the Situationists, and published The Society of Spectacle in 1967, describing the state of influence that media and pop culture had taken over the general populace. The Situationists looked to blur the...
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Posted Sony Portapak to Alternative Media Timeline
The Portapak was introduced by Sony in 1967. "The first Portapaks were entirely in the hands of the military and they were used basically to check where their napalm or bombs had gone. Like virtually everything in our society, the...
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Posted Fluxus to Alternative Media Timeline
The Fluxus movement was interested in the exchange of information and making that information accessible to all, however, the movement was also interested in redefining art, like its predecessors, the Futurists and Dadaists. George Macuinas wrote the "Fluxus Manifesto" in...
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Posted Nam June Paik's <em>Random Access</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
Nam June Paik has been called "the founding father of video art" after purchasing the first available Sony Portapak (Meigh-Andrews 16). His work investigates the formal quality of the medium of video and sound recording, dissecting it piece by piece,...
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Posted Robert Rauschenberg's <em>Pelican</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In 1963, Rauschenberg, Alex Hay, and dancer Carolyn Brown performed at a skating rink. Brown wore ballet shoes, while Hay and Rauschenberg skated around her, donning parachutes on their backs, which restricted their movement. As seen in Oskar Schlemmer's Glass...
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Posted The Judson Dance Group to Alternative Media Timeline
The Judson Dance Group formed in New York City in 1962. It was influenced by the Dancers' Workshop Company which formed in 1955. The founding members were Ann Halprin, Simone Forti, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton. They viewed...
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Posted John Cage's <em>4' 33'</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In 1952, Cage would perform his piece 4' 33', in which a performer, in this case, David Tudor, sat at a piano for four minutes and thirty three seconds. Those in attendance come to understand that any noises they make...
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Posted Allan Kaprow's <em>18 Happenings in 6 Parts</em> to Alternative Media Timeline
In 1959, Allan Kapprow, like John Cage, wished to place more responsibility on the observer. He sent invitations stating, "you will become a part of the happenings; you will simultaneously experience them." This paralleling the simultaneity of the Dada movement....
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