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Exhibiting Electronic and New Media Art

New media art encompasses artworks created with new media tech, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, internet art, interactive art, video games, robotics, 3D printing, etc. There are many different organizations in this field including the ISEA (Intersociety for Electronic Arts) Foundation, which is an international  nonprofit organization, and hosts the international symposium of art, which, rotates locations every year. Art Electronica is a festival, and is a combination between an exhibition and art school. The Guggenheim Museum in New York also has a floor dedicated to new media and electronic art. The Art Science Gallery is an art space and science communication hub dedicated to collaboration between artists and scientists, and does work closely related to ecology art and biotechnology. Artists in this area include Ed Wada, who after being involved in music, switched his focus to working with outdated electrical appliances, and HR Giger, who was a swiss surrealist. 

Art and Ecology

The field of art and ecology explores how technology can interface with nature, wether that means to control, observe, or preserve. The Revival Field was one of the most important projects in this field, and used special plants to absorb toxic metals and oxides in the environment to bring life back. In the Biomodd project, plants were used in a symbiotic relationship to power old computers. There have also been many technological pieces, such as the installation that included combinations of the most popular passwords, or Yuk Cosic creating video using ACII characters. Ratios Smits was the founder of RIXC and Biotricity, where a bacteria battery created by RIXC artists and scientists interprets the bacteria "fuel into video and sound. This is also a very broad field that has many different areas within it.

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Projection Mapping

Projection mapping is video mapping and spatial augmented reality. This usually involves projecting animation onto a 3D object or space. Michael Naimark worked with apple and google and did flyovers of the Golden Gate Bridge. Miguel Chevalier exclusively worked with computers and technology and used motion-sensing projection and used projections in large spaces, such as cathedrals. Sougwen Chung's projects used light, sound, and space, and incorporated music. Robert Siedel made abstract animations and projected them onto water, which really reminded me of what Disney does with their water shows. Claudio Sinatti des projection mapping for events and awards shows. There is a wide range of stuff you can do with projection mapping.

Web Art

Web art first makes me think of web design. Web design could be one for mom web art, as it is a profession all on its own, but there is a lot more to web art. The internet in its brief history has rapidly become an outlet for creators and artists. Websites are being used to make interactive pieces, like Alia Ialina does with her web stories. People like Amelia Ulman use social media sites such as Instagram for performance art, as she did with her "Excellence" project. Social media is also becoming a platform for editing and sharing photography as well. in the exhibit Electronic Superhighway, it was interesting to see how the internet has affected how we make art and how art is consumed.