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Art 12; Spring Quarter 2012

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New Media Art Museum Theses

1. A New Media Art museum should be exciting and attractive in a sense that it will allure interested spectators to the museum in order to understand more about this type of new age art and mediums.

2. It should be bold and expressive to reflect the kind of artwork it is displaying. Think of new media art as a teenager being expressive in a unique and loud way that you really can't see anywhere else.

3. The museum should have interactive capabilities that allow people to have opportunities to take part in whatever the artwork is trying to convey as well as arouse some type of intellectual stimulus as the activity is taking place.

4. Like good music, it should be able to immerse people in a state of euphoria that enables the to see a personal connection between themselves and the works.

5. The museum should also have a way of connecting the viewers to the creators by having some sort or virtual or new age biography. Although it doesn't matter who created the works, it gives a sense of reality that this type of artwork was created by someone.

6. A new media art museum should be accepting of all kinds of art that is interactive and innovative that evoke emotion and ideas.

7. It should have an interactive archive system that allows viewers to view older works that have been on display there and have it online on a site that allows viewers to share and embed into their own sites/blogs.

8.  It should provide opportunities for young, aspiring underground artists to have a chance to display their works.

9. There should be special events that coincide with themes of what the artist was try to create. Such as if there were to be sometime to do with music and robots, have an event centered around those two ideas that pique a person's interest and allows them to understand what is going on with the particular gallery.

10. The museum should be limitless. Any type of new media art should be able to be put on display even if it's an idea that is unfamiliar and a bit eccentric.

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The Flat Panoptic Specator

Foucault’s idea of panopticism is that one is constantly surveilled under certain circumstances, such a person in their jail cell or a sick society as described in his paper. The idea of this surveillance is to withhold power. It is “to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power.” (Foucault, 5) In this manner, it is easier to observe people and performances; to inspect and gauge without the person having an idea of whether they are truly being watched. It is a manner of maintaining discipline, “a sort of social 'quarantine” (Focault, 15), that disables people to almost think for themselves or make decisions without worrying whether they will be punished for it. The idea of panopticism coincides with Ranciere’s idea of the spectator, in which a person is watching a spectable – immobile of action or thought. People may be ignorant of certain ideas and expressions, however, those who are ignorant may often times continue to stay ignorant and refuse to find ways to make those idea more understandable. “In order to replace ignorance with adequate knowledge, he [the master] must always keep a step ahead of the ignorant student who is losing his ignorance” (Ranciere, 6). But the power of a spectator is the ability to each person to “translate what they are looking at (Ranciere, 9). For example, art is a medium in which spectators gaze and commentate on. Each person has their own idea of what that work of art is to them in their own words. They key  to the “emancipation of the spectator” is any normal situation at any point in time. “We learn and teach, we act and know, as spectators who link what they see with what they have seen and told, done and dreamed” (Ranciere, 10). Lancier’s idea of “flatness” relates to the idea of humans capabilities and lack of it. “Every artist tries to foresee or even nudge the context in which expression is to be perceived so that the art will make sense” (Lancier, 13). His idea is that artists or creators in general do not build for their own sake of building and creating but for the sake of making sense to the spectators of our society. Even as people are creating and setting trends, Lancier sees is as culture being frozen and people are just picking their way through the past to recreate what was once trendy. “The whole point of connected media technologies was that we were supposed to come up with new, amazing cultural expression” (Lancier, 9). 

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Manifesto for New Media Curators

We’re in a world of creators, where essentially anything and everything can be turned into a work of art. “The possibilities are endless.” Whatever one sets their mind to, it is possible to achieve with the right tools and the right setting. Even a young child can create an iPhone app at this day and age. There are no limitations and there are no boundaries. People mold and make things to their likings. Nothing stays constant.

  Art is new and ever changing. It can take many unique and distinguished forms. How will we be able to see, touch, and experience the new media art being created if there’s no way to display it? Today, internet rules all. Almost every second of every day is spent staring at glowing screens. If this is the case, why not put together new media art onto the internet for all to see. Because everything is at the touch of our fingertips, people will be more inclined to understand what new media art is if there’s no added effort to go out of their way to look for it. Take Banksy for example; his artwork is spread out in various locations that some are unaware of even. However, his art is made known because of the internet and those that inhabit it.

  The new media art should be organized and archived by year followed by month and then day if needed. In this sense, the artwork would be easier to find. However, in a creative manner, the posts should reflect that similar to Tumblr where one would be able to like posts and increase the artworks trending popularity so that more people are aware even as the artwork becomes “outdated” or old. New Media art changes with time as people and technology change as well. As stated by Gere, these types of works are underrepresented by museums. But that is unimportant because with internet, new media art will in a sense, never be outdated. With the possibility of bumping older artworks to more recent posts or archives, people will continuously be aware of the works and artists.   

  The best thing about art, no matter what kind it is – baroque, contemporary, digital – it brings together different types of mediums and disciplines. One may not know it when they see it, but often times they’re looking at a piece of art; something that moves them and makes them want to show it to someone else. Art will always tell a story. It will always evoke a thought or emotion. With this form of organization, it will be easier to pass along these feelings, whatever they may be, and start a movement. 

Links:

Manifesto of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar

From Here On

Banksy

New Media Art

Tumblr

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Hyperlinks

From the hyperlinks in the paper New Media from Borges to HTML by Les Manovich, I was able to understand more about the InterCommuncation Center online and what it has to offer. By being able to click on hyperlinks as I read through the paper, I have a better understanding of some of the things that Manovich is referring to. The internet, originally discovered for Army purposes, was not popular until the 1990's but even at that point in Europe, it was still a "phenomenon". It seems as if the U.S. has not actively taken a role to support the new media art movement. But without new media art, there would be no artificial intelligence or 3-D modeling, which is essential for more than just art. It can be used for geometric modeling. As stated in the New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age, computers were typically used for number crunching and artistis couldn't utilize its complexity. The network, SAGE, which was used for missile detection, opened the doors to looking at technology and art together. I was able to learn a lot about E.A.T and how the artists and engineers collaborated in order to bring two different mediums together. At this day and age, New Media Art can be compared to cyberculture, which is the first of Manovich’s 8 propositions. As stated, “cyberculture is focused on the social and networking while new media is focused on the cultural and computing.”  I believe that new media and cyberculture cross in some manner. New Media encompasses internet art, digital art, computer graphics and much more which I believe is also a part of cyberculture. We have become a more techonologically savvy society that emerges itself in social gaming and media that utilizes computer networks and communication. New Media also uses these kinds of cyberculture as stated in Manovich’s second proposition – “New Media used as a distribution platform.”

  Despite the ease of hyperlinks that allow viewers to access information and artwork at their fingertips, galleries in a sense do make art visible as asserted by Gere. Being able to physically see and possible touch artwork makes it more real. It’s similar to seeing a monument like the Eiffel Tower. It’s more mind blowing to witness in real life. Museums are still a large role for us today and I believe that it will continue to be years from now. 

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UniquelyAbstractGallery

Artist: James Nizam

Piece: Drill Holes Through Studio Walls(http://hereelsewhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Drill_Holes_Through_Studio_Wall-400x500.jpg)

Collection: Trace Heavens

Date: 2011

James Nizam created holes of varying sizes and shapes to create a celestial illumination. The holes are pierced in a perfect circle formation that resembles looking through a telescope from an observatory. This is one of the pieces of the UniquelyAbstractGallery because it is abstract in it's nature, but it evokes a feeling of celestial being. First seeing this piece by Nizam, as well as the rest of the collection, you see a new type of understanding for new media art in this form. He connects it with a surreal idea of the universe and space and time. Looking at the Trace Heavens collection, it evokes an awe-inspiring thought of 3 dimensional work and the thought of a single presence in a 2 dimensional picture.

Artist: Lee Eunyeol

Collection: Starry Night: Light Installation 

Date: 2012

Lee Eunyeol replicated the night sky onto the Earth by fabricating the appearance of stars and celestial bodies. He used LED light bulbs that illuminated landscapes, enhancing their natural setting. This work also coincides with Nizam's work in that they both have a celestial feel that connects their work to mankind, the earth and possibly the universe. Eunyeol's light installation uses lights to evoke a feeling of peace just as one would feel when looking at a night sky. The collection is my favorite because it makes me think of the same thoughts when I look up at the sky, "man, this world is beautiful." 

Artist: N/A

Apollo 7 spacecraft

Piece: AS07-08-1933 (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo7/med/as07-08-1933.jpg)

Date: 1968

The photograph above was taken by the Apollo 7 spacecraft in 1968 as the craft was flying over the Earth. The image is of the Gulf of Mexico with the rays of the sun reflecting off the surface in the early hours of the morning. This was taken during Apollo 7's 134th revolution of the sun. Even though this piece is also not a part of new age media, I'd like to think that it is because it also uses technology to  capture an enchanting image that evokes thought and idea. I also used my own definition of new media art in that the photograph was taken by a technologically advance piece of man-made machinery. I think pieces like these can give new media artists ideas.

Artist: Alberto Seveso

Collection: A Due Colori (http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/56920/projects/3367841/b7fd37c476020b3ea036033366d841af.jpg)

Date: 2012

Alberto Seveso created the abstract photography by taking underwater shots of different colored ink being dispersed in water. Each photograph in the collection reflects a mysterious and solidified sculpture. This work is not considered new media art, however, my own definition of new media art is the usage of new age technology and technological advancements. With this piece, I considered it to be new media art because of the usage of photography and a high tech camera in order to capture this image. And even looking upon it, it looks almost fake and plastic. It looks almost as if it were to be created by some digital program on the computer. To me, it screams new, exciting, digitized and bold.

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I searched for Animation.

Reports of the society: Instituted in 1774

Here is the link to the Google Book. It is the second to last page in the PDF.

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Miltos Minetas

Miltos Minetas is a Greek artist that works with paint and multimedia. He is the founder of an internet based art movement called "Neen" and has also done paintings, internet art, video game websites, etc. He currently lives and works in London and New York but during his earlier career, he had traveled more in order to develop his art. Minetas started off his career by being in the Relational Aesthetics art movement, Traffic. Afterwards, Minetas decided to move towards exploring computer technology and creating paintings reflecting these ideas. He explored the idea of video games and internet as a sort of inspiration and medium. Some of the artworks that he created was SuperMario Sleeping and Flames; both of which consist of video game characters in a certain setting.

Artworks:

SuperMario Sleeping

Hyperlinks:

Miltos Minetas

Selected Works of Miltos Minetas

Cargo Collective

Biography