Internet Art - Michael Day - 21.2.18
INTERNET ART
Michael Day
Cross - Level Lecture
- Historical terminology for internet art practices : Computer Art, Electronic Art, Media Art.
- New terminology: net art, net.art, Digital Art.
A chronological exploration of the development of Internet Art practice...
1994-2000 :- What is internet?
- Commentary on the medium through which it is expressed.
- Internet as decenteralised or distributed power hierarchy, a distributed/decenteralised network. POWER - the context of power.
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| Institute of Network Cultures - Accessed - networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/articles/what-is-a-federated-network/ |
- Networks of shred information - TRANSOCEANIC CABLES connecting the world.
- Instant
- CYBERSPACE - the ideas that this space is separate to the real space we exist in.
- Lawnmower man - 1980s film - Altered states of mind and reality. Human interference in fusing technology with the human condition. - [Lawnmower Dog - Rick and Morty episode - Sci-Fi satire tv series - clever titles and episodes that play on such cultural narratives.]
- The internet and Cyberspace offered anonymity, freedom and immersion.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW - of The Grateful Dead
- Internet as Utopian ideology.
- ''A declaration of the independence of cyber space'
-"hypermedium" - the encroachment of CAPITALism - The Californian ideology.
PRECURSORS TO INTERNET ART
- 'Systems Art'
- Sol Lewitt - Wall Drawings / Boston Museums. The distributed network - Authorship - The art becomes ephemeral not original.
- Allan Kaprow - The happening - Participatory arts - Art appears in the mind of the viewer rather than in the actual.
Experiments in Art and Technology - EAT . 1970
- Approach and attitude. Dada. The ready-made . Appropriation
Situationism - The Situationist International - Guy Debord - The way we exist in the media landscape.
EARLY NET ART AND NET.ART 1994-2000
- Jodi.org - layers of our experience of the internet. The code that makes it happen - the source . Follows the structure and narrative of film - my boyfriend came back from the war. Low res images . A lost relationship - Recovering networks - Split/ Fracture - Cinematic montages. Evoking emotional responses.
- Alexis Shelga - .net artist - aesthetic composition - formalist - turning the basic make up of the web into art.
WEB AND NET ART 2000-2008ish
- Eva and Franco Mattes - Radical Transparency.
- Yo - Ching - Heavy industries - Samsung -
- Consumer / Capitalist Commentary.
- A Leigance to commodity.
- 1999 - Important before its time.
2008 - POST - INTERNET ART
- Cory Arcangel
- Sorry I haven't posted , 2010. - Collapse of social systems and social media channels - unable to keep up with maintaining a real life and a digital self.
- Paganini's 5th Caprice - YouTube. - Mixes high and low cultures. The virtuoso mixed with the amateur - Celebration of the amateur.
- POST - INTERNET ART - deals with the impossibility of having an original of something. - The multiplicity of the versions of things increases the value of he original version.
ARTE VIERKANT - The image-object.
- Status of the aesthetic object. - Image objects.
POST- DIGITAL ART 2013-date.
- Mastering the internet - world communications.
- Serious critical issues.
- Yuri Pattison
- Edward Snowdon
- Cultural Social implications - De-Sensitised to seriousness.
- James Bridle - Dronestagram 2012.
- Instagram - Superficial platforms
- SURVEILLANCE - Visibility and invisibility. - Hyper- Face.
FURTHER RESOURCES
- Rachel Greene - Internet Art
- Omar Kholeif - You are here, Art after the internet.
- Electronic Superhighway - Omar Kholeif Editor
- Nick Briz - netart.rocks.
PRECURSORS TO INTERNET ART
- 'Systems Art'
- Sol Lewitt - Wall Drawings / Boston Museums. The distributed network - Authorship - The art becomes ephemeral not original.
- Allan Kaprow - The happening - Participatory arts - Art appears in the mind of the viewer rather than in the actual.
Experiments in Art and Technology - EAT . 1970
- Approach and attitude. Dada. The ready-made . Appropriation
Situationism - The Situationist International - Guy Debord - The way we exist in the media landscape.
EARLY NET ART AND NET.ART 1994-2000
- Jodi.org - layers of our experience of the internet. The code that makes it happen - the source . Follows the structure and narrative of film - my boyfriend came back from the war. Low res images . A lost relationship - Recovering networks - Split/ Fracture - Cinematic montages. Evoking emotional responses.
- Alexis Shelga - .net artist - aesthetic composition - formalist - turning the basic make up of the web into art.
WEB AND NET ART 2000-2008ish
- Eva and Franco Mattes - Radical Transparency.
- Yo - Ching - Heavy industries - Samsung -
- Consumer / Capitalist Commentary.
- A Leigance to commodity.
- 1999 - Important before its time.
2008 - POST - INTERNET ART
- Cory Arcangel
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| Cory Arcangel - MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds, 2005 - Image courtesy of artsy.net |
- Paganini's 5th Caprice - YouTube. - Mixes high and low cultures. The virtuoso mixed with the amateur - Celebration of the amateur.
- POST - INTERNET ART - deals with the impossibility of having an original of something. - The multiplicity of the versions of things increases the value of he original version.
ARTE VIERKANT - The image-object.
- Status of the aesthetic object. - Image objects.
POST- DIGITAL ART 2013-date.
- Mastering the internet - world communications.
- Serious critical issues.
- Yuri Pattison
- Edward Snowdon
- Cultural Social implications - De-Sensitised to seriousness.
- James Bridle - Dronestagram 2012.
- Instagram - Superficial platforms
- SURVEILLANCE - Visibility and invisibility. - Hyper- Face.
FURTHER RESOURCES
- Rachel Greene - Internet Art
- Omar Kholeif - You are here, Art after the internet.
- Electronic Superhighway - Omar Kholeif Editor
- Nick Briz - netart.rocks.
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