Digital Art lecture based on the intro to the book "Digital Art".

1. Digital Art

2. 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

3. Computer Art?
Multimedia Art?
New Media Art?

4. 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.

5. Old
New

6. tool

7. medium
Rain Room, Random International, 2012

8. hybrid
Human/Dog Hybrid, Patricia Piccinini 2002

9. A short history of technology and art

10. Military
Industrial
Complex
Noun
a country’s military establishment and those industries producing arms or
other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.

12. ENIAC 1946

13. UNIVAC 1951

14. ARPANET 1969

15. Douglas Engelbart first mouse for interface

16. Douglas Engelbar bitmap

17. DADA

18. DADA

19. DADA

20. Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968

21. Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel, 1913

22. Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, 1923

23. Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1913

24. Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q. 1919

25. Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray
Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920

26. Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray
Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics), 1920

27. Marcel Duchamp
Rotary Demisphere, 1925

28. Marcel Duchamp
Tongue in Cheek

29. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

30. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

31. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Photogram 1925

32. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

33. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

34. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

35. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Light Space Modulator, 1922

36. Man Ray

37. Man Ray

38. Man Ray
Rayogram, 1922

39. Man Ray

40. John Cage, new-Dada, Fluxus

41. Fluxus

42. Allan Kaprow

43. Fluxus
Water Yam, George Brecht, 1963

44. 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.

45. Nam June Paik
Random Access, 1963

46. early
computer
graphics

47. Michael A. Noll

48. Bella Julesz

49. Georg Nees

50. Frieder Nake

51. George Whitney

52. Charles Csuri

53. Vera Molnar

54. Vera Molnar

55. Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz., 1977

56. Robert Adrian
The World in 24 Hours, 1982