Digital Art History.2
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The document discusses the history of digital art from the 1970s to the present. It describes early digital artworks created using mainframe computers by artists like Lillian Schwartz and Nam June Paik. The Vasulkas' video synthesis works are also mentioned. The document then examines problems that arose for new media art, tensions between conceptual "Duchamp Land" approaches and technological "Turing Land" approaches. Finally, it outlines the emergence of desktop computing with early home computers like the Commodore PET and the influence of this on digital art practices.
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Digital Art History.2
- 1. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES University of Jyväskylä Feburary 18, 19 2013 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 2. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 UFOS Lillian Schwartz 1971 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 3. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 The Artist and the Computer Lillian Schwartz (interview) 1976 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 4. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 Nam June Paik MAGNET TEVELVISION WORKS MAGNET TV ELECTRONIC OPERA 1965 1969 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 5. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 Participation TV Nam June Paik 1969 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 6. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 Vasulka Video Works Woody and Steina Vasulka FLUX EXPLANATION HOME TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 7. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 PROBLEMS FOR NEW MEDIA ART “DUCHAMP LAND” “TURING LAND” ORIENTED TOWARD CONTENT ORIENTED TOWARDS NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPLICATED COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IRONIC SIMPLE SELF-REFERENTIAL LACKS IRONY DESTRUCTIVE TOWARD ITS OWN MATERIAL TAKES TECHNOLOGY SERIOUSLY Lev Manovich The Death of Computer Art 1996 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 8. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 PROBLEMS FOR NEW MEDIA ART “DUCHAMP LAND” “TURING LAND” TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 9. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 PROBLEMS FOR (the object of) NEW MEDIA ART TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 10. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 PROBLEMS FOR THE NEW MEDIA ART (world) “DUCHAMP LAND” / “TURING LAND” The New Media Art world became inadequate to an art practice that was increasingly sharing the idea of art and the system of values of the contemporary art world. At the same time, however, most of the attempts made to bring New Media Art back to Duchamp Land failed as a consequence of an approach based on importing the system of values of Turing Land into Duchamp Land. In the contemporary art world, art is not appreciated as creative research on a given medium, but as a powerful statement on the world we are living in. [The New Media] art world came into being as a cultural niche in the Sixties and Seventies, and became a bona fide art world in the Eighties and Nineties, developing its own means of production and distribution, and cultivating an idea of “art” that is completely different from that entertained by the contemporary art world. Domenico Quaranta The Postmedia Perspective 2011 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 11. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 DESKTOP COMPUTING COMES HOME COMMODORE PET TANDY TRS80 APPLE II IBM 5150 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 12. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 + = TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- 13. DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.2 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD TAAN Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden