Posts Tagged ‘newmedia’
So What IS New Media?
February 08, 2011
The complaints about attempts to define “New Media” are so common that they border on cliché. While many often boil down to petty niggling over semantics, there are some valid points. Time is likely the more resilient of contention-points. On what relative time scale do we understand “new?” When does a form of “New Media” [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art, newmedia
Lev Manovich and the Aesthetics of Data
December 17, 2010
This past October, Lev Manovich gave a talk at Columbia College Chicago. His talked focused primarily on his work in exploring and establishing visual cultures using large datasets. What struck me most about some of his is the way it resembles sequential art or time-based art. You can see this with his mural of Time [...]
2010 | Blog | Tags: data, newmedia, visitingartists, visualculture
Announcing: Creative Code Workshops
September 02, 2010
Creative Code Workshops workShop[0] = Processing; Over the past several decades of advancement in computer technology, a fledgling movement of computational and digital media art has emerged. Initially the province of a handful techno-savvy pioneers, today there is a wide range of tools and resources available to artists and designers, drastically lowering the barrier of [...]
2010 | Blog | Tags: Art, creativecodeworkshops, newmedia, processingComments (0)
crowdSource()
July 18, 2010
This is the beginning of a new series of net.art works called crowdSource(). crowdSource() modifies and recontextualizes video media from pop culture to highlight and explore ideas of Crowd Mentality. The source material drawn from includes music videos, cult cinema, children’s cartoons, and other corners of pop media. Slivers of content that feature crowds are [...]
2010 | Art, Time-Based | Tags: Art, crowdsource, newmediaComments (0)
Nothing ever ends… except when it does
December 20, 2008
I think it’s rather inauspicious that I begin this blog as one of my recent favorite blogs decides to go dark. At a superficial glance, The College of Mythic Cartography can seem a bit outside the scope of a blog focused on new media. Indeed, a fair amount of its subject matter can seem decisively [...]
