The following links and descriptions are collections of New Media research. Some of the research is for specific projects, and other elements are simply from publications or exhibitions that deal with new media work.
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- Writings and Reviews: New Media
- Online Resources and Links: Art Nature and Technolgy
- Gallery Exhibits
Writings and Reviews: New Media
- Review of Chapter 15 from, "At a Distance - Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet"
- 'Robot in The Garden': Ken Goldberg's introduction to "Telepistemology: the study of knowledge acquired at a distance"
- Response to "Presence, Absence, and Knowledge in Telerobotic Art.", Machiko Kusahara
- EMERGENCE - The connected lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.", Steven Johnson
- Bio Ethics, Fetal Surgery Paper
- Review of Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto', Malin Svenningsson's 'Cyberlove: Creating Romantic Relationships on The Net', Jenny Sunden's 'Cyberbodies: Writing Gender in Digital Self Representations' and Kathleen Woodward's 'From Virtual Cyborgs to Biological Time Bombs: Technocriticism and the Material Body': Power Point Presentation by Steph Kittell, Lindsey Nicholls, Randy Horton
Online Resources and Links: Art Nature and Technology
- The Nature Machine: Summer Festival
- The Nature Machine
- Exhibit contrasts nature, technology
- Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of a New Relationship?
- Eric Singer, new media artist/programmer (SWARM THEORY)
- Richard Dawkins: Zoologist, scientist - the study of nature.
Gallery Exhibits
"Five Angels for the Millenium", Bill Viola,
1986
"Five Angels for the Millennium" is an installation work created by Bill
Viola. It was acquired as a permanent collection of the Whitney Museum,
through a partnership with the 'Tate' Museum in London England and the 'Centre
Pompidou' Museum in Paris.
"Meat Dress", Jana Sterbak, 1984
'The Meat Dress' is the slang title for 'Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino
Anorectic', an installation work of art by Canadian artist Jana Sterbak.
The piece itself consisted of raw meat which was sewn together to form
a kind of dress. This 'dress' was then hung upon a hanger and left to begin
its decomposition process at the National Gallery of Canada.
photo from: http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp
- Read the review: Read the short essay
- Read the article: Read about Jana Sterbak's Process
"Uber Organ", Richard Hawkinson, 2003
"Uber Organ" is an installation work created by Richard Hawkinson. It was
on loan to the Trump Tower Plaza as an installation work, through the Whitney
Museum. The work consisted of an immense collection of flesh-like bag-pipes
to the scale of 200 feet across. The bag pipes would be 'played' through
an automated process which included 'sheet music' that streamed down from
the
"Sense", 3rd Year Ryerson Students, 2005
The 3rd year new media exhibition named "Sense" was exhibited at the Ryerson
Gallery, located at 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto Ontario. The exhibit duration
was from January 5th to the 15th, 2005.
When entering the gallery the visitor is presented with a simple setting. The gallery consisted of hard wood floors and white walls. There were three support beams which helped segment the space, and there was adequate illumination which eliminated any shadowed areas. In general the space was quite clean and neutral in its disposition, curated as a 'blank canvas' for the works it featured. The space was re-configured to present four installation works created by Craig Harwood, Paul Kazieadski, Mark Holden and Jesse Brouse.
"The Gates", Christo and Jean Claude, New York, 2005
"The Gates" is an installation work located in Central Park, New York City.
It was conceived and created by artists Christo and Jean Claude, Faebruary
18 - 25, 2005. The installation consisted of 7500 saphron-coloured gates,
scattered allong the trails of Central Park. The cost of the installation
was $21 million, all of which was raised by the artists.
"Little Red Angel of Marsielles", by James Lee Byars, 1932 - 1997
The Perfect Silence Exhibit, Whitney Museum, New York, February 18th, 2005
"Little Red Angel of Marsielles" was an installation work, originally created
by James Lee Byars. The installation was presented adjacent to the Bill
Viola exhibit of "Five Angels for the Millenium", and was just one of the
pieces displayed in "The Perfect Silence" exhibit. The exhibit included
a number of Byar's work.
"The Death of James Lee Byars", by James Lee Byars, 1932 - 1997
Whitney Museum, New York, February 18th, 2005
The installation was first shown in 1994, where Byars performed within
the room he created. In the room he "practiced" death. More specifically
he would practice the process of death, after which, he would end his performance
by, ¹"replace[ing] his presence with 5 crystals symbolizing his physical
coordinates".