What are new media? communication theory. To start with… “ Art is experimental, or it isn ’ t art ” Who believes this crap?!

What are new media?

communication theory

To start with…

“Art is experimental, or it isn’t art” Who believes this crap?!

How can we broadly define Technology?

How can we define digital technology?

How can we broadly define Media? How can we define new media?

new media represents a convergence of two separate historical trajectories: computing and media technologies.

A brief history of new media Computer

Babbage & Turing Code Algorithm

Internet Connectivity

‘world wide web’ Content management/development Ubiquitous delivery

Web 2.0

Is photography static? Eadweard Muybridge 1878

Horses William Dickson and the Kinetoscope

Bitmap grids: scanning a 3D object [demo] Walter Benjamin: If an image can be

reproduced easily, where is the art? Digital imaging

Non-linear narrative Science as art? Time-based work a related part of how media

has changed due to computing technology

Marshall McLuhan

From Understanding Media (@0:41) The medium is the message?

Lightbulbs and video games I Haz Internetz? What is the message of Second Life?

Principles of Digital Media

Language of New Media<Lev Manovich>

1. Numerical Representation Mathematical in nature, manipulated by

algorithms In short, digital media becomes programmable.

2. Modularity LEGOs

3. Automation Halo

4. Variability Walter Benjamin

5. Transcoding Cultural layer vs. computer layer

Numerical Representation

jodi.org, 404, 1997

Corinne Vionnet, Photo Opportunities, 2005

Corinne Vionnet, Photo Opportunities, 2005

Modularity

Jim Campbell, Illuminated Average: Fleming’s Wizard of Oz, 2001

Jim Campbell, Illuminated Average: Hitchcock’s Psycho, 2000

Mark Napier, Shredder, 1998

Automation

MTAA, 1 year performance video, 2004

Variability

Josh Om, theyrule.net, 2001

Transcoding

Jim Campbell, Low Resolution Works: Home Movies, 2008

Joseph DeLappe, The Salt Satyagraha Online, 2008

The CYRIAK method