ART AND MUSIC DISRUPTION

5. DIGITAL ART & MUSIC

Suggested Reading for next week: Gere, C. (2004), Digital Culture. Reaktion Books: Leonardo Journal http://www.leonardo.info/

Digital Art has a history going back 40 years. Digital music can trace

its roots back nearly a hundred. Music has seen a dramatic

disruption, visual art through video and photography has changed

completely. Tools have revolutionised creation and performance and

they have decimated business models, particularly in music. Digital

music is now the mainstream so why isn’t digital art, or is it? So what

are the key features of the digital aesthetic and how are the arts

being changed?

“Digital is not here to put an end to anything. Rather it is here to expand all things, to combine and to make more things attainable. For the artist, it is the edgiest work of all; the biggest, most exciting challenge in a long history of the synthesis between technology and hand and mind and heart.”

J.D. Jarvis

http://www.dpandi.com/jd/index.html

(WESTERN) ART HISTORY In 5 minutes

Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck,1434 La donna velata, Raphael,1516

The Cardplayers, Paul

Cézanne, 1892 Portrait of Dr. Gachet,

Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Derain 1905 Boats at Collioure's Harbour

Robert Delaunay, Circular forms, 1930 (detail) Pollock, “Autumn rhythm (Number 30)

New

technology

allows

artists to

create new

forms and

new

aesthetics

It [a computer] is a medium that can dynamically

simulate the details of any other medium, including

media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool,

though it can act like many tools. It is the first

metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom

for representation and expression never before

encountered and as yet barely investigated.

[original emphasis] (Kay 1984: 41). Northern Lights Volume 5 © 2007 Intellect Ltd

Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/nl.5.1.39/1

Alan Kay’s universal media machine

Lev Manovich

“Our culture and our species thrive because of our repeated creative innovations in our basic tools and now that we are in this age of computers, where many of our creative minds are now overloaded with information, we must bring creativity support to our tools.”

Marc Vass

Many of the artist contributors noted how working with computers has stimulated

them to move their thinking forward. One discusses the importance that digital

technology has had in encouraging him to shift the very idea of what he considered

to be art.

Others found that using computers caused them to reformulate the boundaries of

their artistic vision, for example, by adding time as a dimension of the work, research

issue.

Many artists have been encouraged to break with established conventions. a core

element of truly innovative practice.

For most artists, the importance of using and having access to expert technological

knowledge cannot be overemphasized. As a study of collaboration revealed, some

find it vital for each member of the team to have a clear and well-defined role. On

the other hand, by their own account, some artists have been struck by the way

digital art collaboration leads to the blurring of the distinction between artist and

technologist.

Ernest Edmonds and Linda Candy

Creativity, Art Practice, AND Knowledge

ISSUES

Ubiquity

Copying

Piracy

Remix

Generative /Algorithmic

Impermanence

Desensitization

Value/Dealing

Interaction

PIECES V&A history of Computer Art

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/computer-art-history/

La Historia de la Animacion Abstracta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8oZ4KE8868

Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg

1969 Interactive Art Objects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-Eyybajfo

John Whitney-Permutations (1966)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA

Future Canvas - iPad Interactive Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehf8o-n23L4&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Live Painting Final Output 720-1.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=jqudpXWVK0M&NR=1

From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SETcTrdcU4

Kinect for Xbox 360 Interactive Art Installation by Seeper featuring Sylvie va

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHG50Z5gQZE

Eye-tracking Interactive Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCHthmDTbyU

ACCESS - an interactive art installation by Marie Sester

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EaXPekFo

Interactive art with wooden mirrors - The wooden mirror (1/4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZysu9QcceM

Life Lights Interactive Art by Morgan Rauscher & Miles Thorogood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMiAlkGWDyQ

Color Gun - Interactive Art Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVsIf1XxZ8

LIQUID SPACE 6.0 Interactive art by Daan Roosegaarde in Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBowlRsyjnE

Face-Scrambling Interactive Artwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dh2ghiwJW0

Century of Light : Early Interactive Sculpture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98-NyYN7CMc

Locative Painting, by Martha Gabriel - Interactive Locative Art presented

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0UYuUU5CMA

[ Stories of a Cell Phone ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99dDTQIsMY

Secret Passions - William Latham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN6ngsckRZs

PIECES Van Gogh Starry Night Interactive Animation (music by Gig McKell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91mSLGOfH2E

Mobile Phone Concert: Artist Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3IhQKRob9g

Multi Touch Music Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmmdGonQW4

Generative music in Supercollider & Processing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbcqv8rxnA

Generative Music in the Blues Scale using AudioCubes and Ableton Operator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cty3inVBbo

Generative Music - Cellular automata and blip blops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYjevNIJztw