Digital Art
Artists have always been among the first
to reflect on the culture and technology
of their time, and decades before the
digital revolution had been officially
proclaimed, they were experimenting
with the digital medium.
-Christian Paul
Computer Art?
Multimedia Art?
New Media Art?
What is new?
What is new in fact is that digital
technology has now reached such a stage
of development that it offers entirely new
possibilities for the creation and
experience of art.
Old



New
tool
medium 


Rain Room, Random International, 2012
hybrid 


Human/Dog Hybrid, Patricia Piccinini 2002
A short history of technology and art
Military
Industrial 
Complex 


Noun 
a country’s military establishment and those industries producing arms or
other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.
ENIAC 1946
UNIVAC 1951
ARPANET 1969
Douglas Engelbart first mouse for interface
Douglas Engelbar bitmap
DADA
DADA
DADA
Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968
Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, 1923
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1913
Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q. 1919
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray
Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray
Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920
Marcel Duchamp
Rotary Demisphere, 1925
Marcel Duchamp
Tongue in Cheek
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Photogram 1925
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Light Space Modulator, 1922
Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray
Rayogram, 1922
Man Ray
John Cage, new-Dada, Fluxus
Fluxus
Allan Kaprow
Fluxus
Water Yam, George Brecht, 1963
Yoko Ono
Cut Piece, 
Cut Piece
First Version for single performer:
Performer sits on stage with a pair
of scissors placed in front of him.
It is announced that members of the
audience may come on stage–one at
a time–to cut a small piece of the
performer’s clothing to take with them.
Performer remains motionless
throughout the piece.
Piece ends at the performer’s
option.
Nam June Paik
Random Access, 1963
early
computer
graphics
Michael A. Noll
Bella Julesz
Georg Nees
Frieder Nake
George Whitney
Charles Csuri
Vera Molnar
Vera Molnar
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz., 1977
Robert Adrian
The World in 24 Hours, 1982

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