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New Media is a relatively new field of study that has developed around cultural practices with the computer playing a central role as the medium for production, storage and distribution.
New Media studies reflect on the social and ideological impact of the personal computer, computer networks, digital mobile devices, ubiquitous computing and virtual reality. The study includes researchers and propagators of new forms of artistic practices such as interactive installations, net art, software art, new interfaces for musical expression, the subsets of interaction, interface design and the concepts of interactivity, multimedia and remediation.
Media (the plural of medium) refer to technologies used to communicate messages and include mass media (newspapers, TV, radio), popular media (film, books) and digital media (computer games, the World Wide Web, virtual reality) and others.
"New" in this context means:
- the relative novelty of digital computing
- the unprecedented speed of evolution and mutation of devices and technologies
- undeveloped, imperfect and experimental environments
- subjective novelty, most of the artists and theoreticians currently studying digital culture have migrated from different disciplines.
New media are also the common denominator of such disciplines as (new) media art (from Nam June Paik to net.art), (new) media activism, (new) media studies (from Marshall McLuhan to Lev Manovich) and journalistic media criticism (from Neil Postman to Howard Rheingold).
Questions associated with the study of New Media
- What is the cultural value of an artifact (image/song/movie) that can be infinitely reproduced and disseminated across the globe instantaneously?
- What are the implications of our new found ability to communicate across vast cultural/geographical distances?
- Is the disembodied nature of communication on the internet passive? How can individuals create identity in a disembodied environment?
- Can we question the veracity of the increasingly mediated experience of daily life?
- How does our ability to easily manipulate visual/aural artifacts effect our existence?
New Media Artists
Nam June Paik video artist, modified television set
Melinda Rackham "is a new media artist who publishes on the Internet. You have to interact with her work in order to appreciate the outcome. Rackham likes having the global reach of an Internet-based gallery" Time|CNN.
Ken Rinaldo. Works with natural systems and robotics to find poetic relationships. He is interested in a co-evolved coupling between natural and technological systems.
Ian Haig. His work Web Devolution "invites the viewer to point and click, while it parodies the digital utopia." Time|CNN.
Laurens Tan computer animation and sculpture
Charles Sandison works with digital projection, codes and installations
Hight) has developed concepts for earthquake driven text and image work "Carrizo parkfield diaries" (in whitney artport) and several other projects linking science,technology and art through new media
New Media Festivals
LA Freewaves in Los Angeles, CA *
Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria www.aec.at
onedotzero in london, tokyo, sydney and 60+ city world tour onedotzero.com / onedotzero.sg / onedotzero.jp
Pixelache Helsinki, Finland
STRP Eindhoven, Netherlands
See also
- Internet
- Digital television
- Digital audio
- Digital video
- Digital art
- Computer art
- Internet art
- Integrated arts
- Electronic art
- Computer-generated art
- Digital imaging
- Digital painting
- Digital illustration
- Digital photography
- Special effects
- Electronic music
- Computer animation
- 3D animation
- The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
Related books
- Remediation: Understanding New Media by Richard Grusin, Jay David Bolter - MIT Press (ISBN 0262522799)
- The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich - MIT Press (ISBN 0262133741)
- The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media by Peter Lunenfeld (Editor) - MIT Press (ISBN 0262621371)
- The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Editor), Nick Montfort (Editor) - MIT Press (ISBN 0262232278)
- Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality by Randall Packer (Editor), Ken Jordan (Editor) (ISBN 0393323757)
- When Old Technologies Were New (link to worldcat) by Carolyn Marvin, 1988
- New Media 1740-1915 (link to worldcat) Gitelman & Pingree (Editors), MIT Press 2003
Online articles
- Art, Power, and Communication by Alexei Shulgin (1996)
- Three Threats to the Survival of New Media by Jon Ippolito (2005)
- Media-N the Online Journal of the New Media Caucus. The journal reflects current discourse in New Media art practice, theory and education.
External links
- * A consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies
- Rhizome.org A website dedicated to Connecting Art and Technology
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