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 Artists in this area include Ed Wada, who after being involved in music, switched his focus to working with outdated electrical appliances, and HR Giger, who was a swiss surrealist.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.

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Dance

• Of the 13 years I did dance, did ballet for 10 and jazz for 3

Travel

• Of the places I've traveled, I flew to 18, drove to 8, and took a train to 1

Finances

• Look at back account and look at the breakdown of the different categories

Video Installation

Video installation again overlaps with a lot of the other topics. Many of the artists who are classified in this category are classified in other categories as well, such as Nam Jun Paik. I am seeing that technology-based art is all closely related, it only depends on the context it is presented in. it was interesting for me to see the interactive video installations and the piece being affected by the presence of the viewer. It was also interesting to see the early forms of video installation that required the use of lots of machinery to make the sound work with the video.

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Contemporary Animation

Whenever I think of animation, I think of the newest CGI Disney animated movies, such as "Tangled" or "Frozen". Obviously animation has had a much longer history since before then, and there are many other types of animation. The range of these different types is great, from 2D cell animation, to vector animation, to stop-motion, and 3D animation. They are all unique in their own way. I am curious as to what will happen to 3D animation in the future since is much more expensive to do than 2D vector animation and vector animation is becoming more popular again. I enjoyed seeing the different examples of animations being used as art in a gallery context, and think I would enjoy doing something like that someday!

Electronic Art

Before this presentation I did not know much about what electronic art exactly encompassed. I thought it was interesting that electronic art overlaps so much with areas such as video art. Video art, however, is  form of electronic art. Many of the predominant artists are the same, such as Nam Jun Paik. It was also interesting to learn that electronic art stamps from concept art. You never really think about how much is put into the concepts and ideas that go into a piece of electronic art. I also thought it was interesting seeing how electronic art was used in practical ways, such as in surveillance and how that situation was used to make an art project.