Tag Archives: New Media

Renée Green

Green’s work adopts the form of complex and highly formalized installations in which ideas, historical events and narratives, as well as cultural artifacts, are examined from myriad perspectives. As scholar Alexander Alberro notes, Green’s attempt is not a didactic one, rather an invitation to participate in the construction of knowledge, as well as shifting perception: [...]

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Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a game researcher known for her organization of flash mobs and other games for massively scaled communities.  From her web site:
“[McGonigal] has created and deployed games and missions in more than 30 countries on six continents. She specializes in games that help gamers enjoy their real lives more — and games that challenge players to [...]

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Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

Speed of Life
Studio notes from the contemporary painter Gregg Chadwick

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

In this exchange between Shahzia Sikander and Art:21 on the nature of art practice, the conversation touches on the place of spirituality in contemporary art. Art:21 defines spirituality as follows:
Spirituality
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David Cope

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David Cope is a composer and the creator of the computer program EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), a generative work that analyzes the style of a specific composer and then composes music in that style.
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21/segments/58293
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cope

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David Rokeby

Cloud, kinetic installation, 2007
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David Rokeby is one of the pioneers of interactive art.  His works explore digital surveillance, artificial perception systems, and kinetic sculpture.
Links:
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/cloud.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rokeby
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.03/rokeby.html

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Eduardo Kac

Edunia, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/8
Photo: Rik Sferra
Image copied from http://www.ekac.org
Eduardo Kac calls his work “transgenic art”.  He works with biotechnology to explore and question current technologies of genetic modification and their use.  His best known work is GFP Bunny, a genetically modified rabbit with green fluorescent protein [...]

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Olafur Eliasson

Installation shot from The Weather Project
Image copied from reclamationproject.wordpress.com
Olafur Eliasson’s immersive, nuanced installations are often based on relatively simple, fully visible technical means.  His use of temperature, moisture, and aroma combine with light and color to create multisensory experiences.
Links:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/eliasson/about.htm
http://www.olafureliasson.net/
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/olafureliasson/#/intro/

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Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans’ wide-ranging opus is not easily categorized.  His work often draws source material from literature, history, and philosophy, and might be described as focusing around questions of language, communication, and perception.  Wyn Evans aims to create what he calls “a catalyst or reservoir of possible meanings that, for the view, could unravel many [...]

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Ken Feingold

The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything
2004 silicone, fiberglass, steel, software, electronics, computers, approx. 48×60×60″
Image copied from www.kenfeingold.com; click here for video
Ken Feingold makes interactive, computer-controlled animatronic sculpture and installations.  His recent work features animatronic heads that carry on conversations which are neither completely scripted or totally random, but somewhere between.  In Feingold’s words “the software [...]

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Camille Utterback

 Alluvial 1, 2oo7 
 
 
is a pioneer artist and programmer focused on interactive installations using new media.  She has exhibited extensively and has taught at Parsons School of Design and NYU. She has recieved a great deal of awards. Her work is interdisciplinary, using everything from video, movement technologies, to graphic computer designs. Reese I think you [...]

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