understand digital art instantly
TRANSCRIPT
history of digital art in 20 minutes1. timeline2. (themes)
new media artinformation arts
computer artdigital art
tool vs mediumproduction
storagecharacteristics
1940 1950 1960 1970
Memex
ENIAC (UPenn)
Cybernetics
hypertext hypermedia
ARPANET
interfacemouse
Xerox PARC: GUI
1940 1950 1960 1970
Memex
ENIAC (UPenn)
Cybernetics
hypertext hypermedia
ARPANET
interfacemouse
Xerox PARC: GUI
Dada Fluxusconceptual art
instructions concept, event, audience participation
The ZUSE Graphomat Z64 drawing machine in 1964. Credit: Robert Rohrbach
Frieder Nake, 13/9/65 Nr. 2, 1965 (also known as Homage to Paul Klee). Digital Art Museum, Berlin
A. Michael Noll Gaussian Quadratic © AMN 1965 1962
Frieder NakeMichael A. NollBela JuleszGeorg NeesJohn WhitneyCharles CsuriVera Molnar
Lejaren Hillen at the University of IllinoisIlliac I computer – Illiac Suite for String Quartet, 1957
Howard Wise GalleryComputer-Generated Pictures exhibition, 1965
Cybernetic Serendipityexhibition at ICA London curated by Jasia Reichardt, 1968
Tendencies 4Zagreb, Museum of Art and Work & Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1968-69
Software, exhibition at Jewish Museum organized by Jack Burnham, 1970
launched 1967by Billy Klüver, Fred Wadhauer, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman
Harold CohenAARON at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1977
academiaresearch centers / labs
military-industrial complexconsumer culture
Zomerzegels 1970, graphic design: R.D.E. Oxenaar, in collaboration with the group numerical control of the department business science i.o., Technical University Eindhoven.
Zomerzegels 1970, graphic design: R.D.E. Oxenaar, in collaboration with the group numerical control of the department business science i.o., Technical University Eindhoven.
Edward IhnatowiczSenster robotic sculpture
at Evoluon, Eindhoven1971-74
1980 1990 20002010
academiaresearch centers / labs
military-industrial complexconsumer culture
digital citizenship / activism
Leonardo Journal founded 1968SIGGRAPH, first conference 1974
Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) founded 1979V2_ (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) founded 1981
ISEA, first symposium 1988ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) founded 1989
Aesthetics of the digital • Art and cinematography • Artificial intelligence, intelligent agents • Artificial life •
Bodies, surrogates, emergent systems • Body and identity • Charged environments • Coded form and electronic
production • Cyborg bodies • Databases, data visualization, mapping • Gaming • Generative tools •
Mapping and text • Mobile and locative media • Motion, duration, illumination • Networks, surveillance, culture
jamming • Photo / byte • Public sphere • Simulations and simulacra • Social networking • Sound and image •
Tactical media, activism, hacktivism • Technologies of the future • Telepresence, telematics, telerobotics • Text and
narrative environments • Virtual worlds
Kit Galloway & Sherrie RabinowitzHole in Space, 1980
Lynn Hershman LeesonLorna, 1979-1984Collection ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Robert Adrian XDie Welt in 24 Stunden, Sept 27-28, 1982, Ars Electronica Festival
The Thinginitiated by Wolfgang Staehle, 1991
Jeffrey Shaw with Dirk Groeneveld: The Legible City, 1989-1991
ART+COM: Terravision (1994)
Google Earth initial release: 2001
Antonio MuntadasThe File Room, 1994
Granular SynthesisModell 5, 1994-96
StelarcPing Body, 1995
JODI, wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, 1995?
Martine Neddam, Mouchette.org, 1996
Cory ArcangelSuper Mario Clouds2002collection Whitney Museum of American Art
Tale of TalesThe Endless Forest2005
Aram Bartholl, “Map,” 2013. Aram Bartholl/datenform.de
F.A.T. LabAugust 1, 2015http://fffff.at/rip/