MVA Extended Context/Extended Media, course introduction

1. VASE7200
Extended Context/Extended Media

2. Course website
http://vase7200.wordpress.com

3. Teachers
Prof. John Aiken
Dr. Bryan Chung
http://www.magicandlove.com

4. Schedule
Course introduction
Teachers’ presentation
Master project arrangement

5. Assignments
Individual project proposal, presentation &
discussion (15%)
18, 25 Oct
Group topics presentation & display (15%)
08, 15, 22 Nov
Individual artwork display & presentation (50%)
29, 30 Nov

6. Assignments
Do not wait until late November to work on
your project.

7. Criteria
Concept development
Creativity in extending context or media
Media aesthetics
Significance in contemporary art context

8. General rubrics
Grade C – meet all requirements on average
Grade B – exceed requirements in some aspects
Grade A – exceed requirements in all aspects

9. Tentative presentation topics
From studio to site to situation
From object to process, craft in technological era
Tactical media and art
Artist’s body, extended or obsolete?

10. Activities
Research centre
Exhibitions
Guest talks
Graduate presentation

11. Science park

12. Fleeting Light Exhibition

13. Jim Campbell

14. Leung Mee-ping (Momo)

15. Samson Young

16. Microwave Media Art Festival

17. Works
Artworks from last year’s students

18. Ashley

19. Boy

20. Cymas

21. Dino

22. Fan Shing

23. Greta

24. Janet

25. Johnwell

26. Julvian

27. Karina

28. Leo

29. Liam

30. Parry

31. Patrick

32. Tap

33. Extended Context/Extended Media
I am not an artist any more. I am a content provider.
Laurie Anderson

34. Extended Context/Extended Media
The public’s experience of the biennale phenomenon has
developed from viewing to participation, giving rise to a marked
shift, in some instances, in the role of the artist from object-maker
to service provider.
Claire Doherty

35. Extended Context/Extended Media

36. Extended Context
Relational aesthetics
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Relational Aesthetics – Themes, Motives, Art, Communication in Art, Art
Modern, Art and Society.
Fluxus & Arte Povera
Higgins, Hannah, Fluxus Experience.
Offences of art
Julius, Anthony, Transgression: the Offences of Art.
Participatory art
Bishop, Claire, The Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship.
Art, design & architecture
Coles, Alex, ed. Design and Art – Documents of Contemporary Art.

37. Extended Media
Art & language
Information visualization
Mediated perception
Media architecture & space
Social interaction

38. Art & language
The language of art
Conceptual art
Machine art
Art and code
Fluxus – instructional art

39. Information visualization
Information & entropy
Medium & communication
Semiology of graphics
Data as material

40. Mediated perception
Body and tool
Extension of body and senses
Ecological approach to perception
Embodied interaction

41. Media architecture and space
Everyday life & spatial practices
Psycho-geography
Media façade & urban screen
Ambient intelligence

42. Social interaction
Tactical media
Social media
Performative media
Virtual communities

43. VASE7200
Some examples

44. Sol Lewitt

45. Bryan Chung

46. Sol Lewitt

47. Yoko Ono

48. Harold Cohen – Aaron

49. Jean Tinguely

50. Drawing automaton

51. Drawing automaton

52. Chuck Close

53. Charles Joseph Minard

54. Martin Wattenberg

55. Martin Wattenberg

56. Lisa Jevbratt

57. Nancy Peterson

58. Josh On

59. Steve Mann (Wikipedia image)

60. Eric Siu

61. Jennifer Ringley

62. Stelarc

63. Sputniko!

64. Sputniko!

65. My parody

66. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

67. Greyworld

68. Projection mapping

69. Graffiti Research Lab

70. Ben Ruben, Mark Hansen

71. Jim Campbell

72. Ken Goldberg

73. Mark Napier

74. FUFME

75. FUFME

76. Valie Export

77. Jodi

78. 0100101110101101 – Biennale Virus

79. 0100101110101101 vs. Marina Abramovic

80. 0100101110101101

81. IP Yuk-yiu

82. IP Yuk-yiu

83. Blast Theory

84. Tamiko Thiel

85. Tamiko Thiel