Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Artistamps in the Mailstream and Stamps for Kids Mobile
I talk about some of my thesis-related studio work in this post for Electronic Visualization graduate seminar.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Alexander R. Galloway at University of Chicago
Alexander R. Galloway, author of The Exploit: Network Theory (with Eugene Thacker, University of Minnesota Press, 2007) will be among the presenters at The Material and the Code: Disciplinary Crossings of Cinema and New Media Symposium, Friday and Saturday February 26-27, 2010, Film Studies Center, Cobb 307-310, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
New Thesis Synopsis and Title
compare with http://danielsauter.com/teaching/AD508_F09/?p=1003
Andyland: Network as Metaphor
This thesis paper provides a theoretical backdrop for a related art project, Andyland. It also provides original academic research on interdisciplinary media theory as it relates to network art or net art. The paper contends that critical theory, especially interdisciplinary media theory applied to media arts (generally) and network art specifically yields innovative thoughtful work relevant to today's contemporary art world. In an era when public access to new forms of media is accelerated, media ecology (and economy) takes on new functions and forms. Just as the Internet and computer mediated communication (CMC) have informed the public sphere in attitudes for netizens (referencing, for example, emergent social codes such as netiquette) relevant formulations of media arts aesthetics will comprise critical stances on many forms of new media. Such media exist in a range of public accessibility from ubiquitous to experimental, adding a dimension of complexity to this task. The most interesting, tested, challenged and lasting formulations of aesthetics on the contemporary scene will have characteristics of insight into media theory. Art that comments upon semiotics, physical communications, and media art history will have both resonance in art criticism as well as popular advantage in the marketplace of ideas.
In order to reach its goal, the thesis deals with the following questions: What is net art? What are virtual worlds and how do they integrate into media arts? How can the application of media theory and media archaeology affect formulations of media arts aesthetics?
Andyland: Network as Metaphor
This thesis paper provides a theoretical backdrop for a related art project, Andyland. It also provides original academic research on interdisciplinary media theory as it relates to network art or net art. The paper contends that critical theory, especially interdisciplinary media theory applied to media arts (generally) and network art specifically yields innovative thoughtful work relevant to today's contemporary art world. In an era when public access to new forms of media is accelerated, media ecology (and economy) takes on new functions and forms. Just as the Internet and computer mediated communication (CMC) have informed the public sphere in attitudes for netizens (referencing, for example, emergent social codes such as netiquette) relevant formulations of media arts aesthetics will comprise critical stances on many forms of new media. Such media exist in a range of public accessibility from ubiquitous to experimental, adding a dimension of complexity to this task. The most interesting, tested, challenged and lasting formulations of aesthetics on the contemporary scene will have characteristics of insight into media theory. Art that comments upon semiotics, physical communications, and media art history will have both resonance in art criticism as well as popular advantage in the marketplace of ideas.
In order to reach its goal, the thesis deals with the following questions: What is net art? What are virtual worlds and how do they integrate into media arts? How can the application of media theory and media archaeology affect formulations of media arts aesthetics?
Production Schedule
January 28: 1st Thesis Committee Meeting
January 29: 1st draft of paper due
Week of February 20: 2nd committee meeting
February 26: 2nd draft of paper due
Week of March 15: 3rd committee meeting
March 19: 3rd draft due
March 22-26: Spring Break
March 27-April 5: exhibition installation
April 7: Exhibition Opening
April 19: Final Paper with Thesis show documentation to committee
April 23: Final Paper with Thesis show documentation to A+D office
January 29: 1st draft of paper due
Week of February 20: 2nd committee meeting
February 26: 2nd draft of paper due
Week of March 15: 3rd committee meeting
March 19: 3rd draft due
March 22-26: Spring Break
March 27-April 5: exhibition installation
April 7: Exhibition Opening
April 19: Final Paper with Thesis show documentation to committee
April 23: Final Paper with Thesis show documentation to A+D office
Really Loose Working Thesis Outline
AAAA. By way of defining net art and its antecendents
1. visualizing world wide communications before 1980 (background chapter)
Eduardo Kac: Chapter 1, Moholy Nagy, Roy Ascott, telephone art
. The rise of telematic (net) art
1. Media arts within the oeuvre of cultural production before 1980
2. Beyond Modern Sculpture
3. Net Art today
but before we got too far into the aesthetics of telecommunications, let us step back for a moment and consider other types of networks, the expanded realm that inform current trends in electronic art. (architecture, relational art, virtuality, observer dependancy, raaf)
2. colonialization, civilization, literacy and world economics
the meaning of networks
Carey, etc.
redefining the idea of networks in the age of ubiquity, universalism (modernism)
3. towards universal agency (from experimental to ubiquitous and back again)
C. Bruno LaTour (We Have Never Been Modern)
4. telepresence (being there),
5. interactive art and videogames (hegemony) simulation
6. Postal history as an economic and media history (November Intro Thesis)
1. postal system, defined
2. relationship of postal system to worldwide transportation infrastructure
The implicit duality and hybridity of virtuality (investigation chapter)
4). Transmodern Art and Virtual Communities
A. Artistamps and virtual worlds
1. imaginary places
2. worldbuilding
3. cyberspace
B. Public art and political realities
BBBB.
SEMIOTICS
ALGORITHMIC ART
second life, is full of algorithms and contingency
literary virtual worlds
text as technology
HOLE IN SPACE
The transformation of television 1980-2010
the role of the integrated circuit
Operating systems and cultire machines "Software show" - Shencken
the changing conception of art, 1890 to 1990
techno culture as popular culture
network theory+visual culture=mail art
Investigation --
(Spike) high-performance computing and communication + performance art
(Instant Copies) virtual worlds + media archaeology
(Glimmer) media sculpture + network theory
(Andyland) physical communication + semiotics
CCCC. Building an imaginary world-system (or
A. From post riders to conceptual art (conclusion chapter)
1. from Spreading the News (John) to Elizabeth Heuer
2. conceptual art
3. the early failures of modernism
B. Fluxus and mail art
1. Fluxus vs. Pop art: two strategies
2. subverting the gallery system
3. George Maciunus and ephermerality
4. Ray Johnson: the New York Correspondence School
3). Interdisciplinary Media Theory as Critical Theory
A. Conceptual art and cybernetics
1. impact on media theory
2. impact on critical theory
3. new interdisciplinary directions
B. Dialogic (Bakhtin) and Manovich’s esperanto (Also Kac dialogic)
1. media art and agency
2. semiotics and purpose in Bakhtin and Manovich
C. Marshall McLuhan
1. reception in the 60s
2. rise of secondary literature on McLuhan
3. applied McLuhan
Carey NUMBER TWO
DDDD. Addendum: Media History, Media Theory and Media Design in Art Education
EEEE. Andyland Book and compendium
1. visualizing world wide communications before 1980 (background chapter)
Eduardo Kac: Chapter 1, Moholy Nagy, Roy Ascott, telephone art
. The rise of telematic (net) art
1. Media arts within the oeuvre of cultural production before 1980
2. Beyond Modern Sculpture
3. Net Art today
but before we got too far into the aesthetics of telecommunications, let us step back for a moment and consider other types of networks, the expanded realm that inform current trends in electronic art. (architecture, relational art, virtuality, observer dependancy, raaf)
2. colonialization, civilization, literacy and world economics
the meaning of networks
Carey, etc.
redefining the idea of networks in the age of ubiquity, universalism (modernism)
3. towards universal agency (from experimental to ubiquitous and back again)
C. Bruno LaTour (We Have Never Been Modern)
4. telepresence (being there),
5. interactive art and videogames (hegemony) simulation
6. Postal history as an economic and media history (November Intro Thesis)
1. postal system, defined
2. relationship of postal system to worldwide transportation infrastructure
The implicit duality and hybridity of virtuality (investigation chapter)
4). Transmodern Art and Virtual Communities
A. Artistamps and virtual worlds
1. imaginary places
2. worldbuilding
3. cyberspace
B. Public art and political realities
BBBB.
SEMIOTICS
ALGORITHMIC ART
second life, is full of algorithms and contingency
literary virtual worlds
text as technology
HOLE IN SPACE
The transformation of television 1980-2010
the role of the integrated circuit
Operating systems and cultire machines "Software show" - Shencken
the changing conception of art, 1890 to 1990
techno culture as popular culture
network theory+visual culture=mail art
Investigation --
(Spike) high-performance computing and communication + performance art
(Instant Copies) virtual worlds + media archaeology
(Glimmer) media sculpture + network theory
(Andyland) physical communication + semiotics
CCCC. Building an imaginary world-system (or
A. From post riders to conceptual art (conclusion chapter)
1. from Spreading the News (John) to Elizabeth Heuer
2. conceptual art
3. the early failures of modernism
B. Fluxus and mail art
1. Fluxus vs. Pop art: two strategies
2. subverting the gallery system
3. George Maciunus and ephermerality
4. Ray Johnson: the New York Correspondence School
3). Interdisciplinary Media Theory as Critical Theory
A. Conceptual art and cybernetics
1. impact on media theory
2. impact on critical theory
3. new interdisciplinary directions
B. Dialogic (Bakhtin) and Manovich’s esperanto (Also Kac dialogic)
1. media art and agency
2. semiotics and purpose in Bakhtin and Manovich
C. Marshall McLuhan
1. reception in the 60s
2. rise of secondary literature on McLuhan
3. applied McLuhan
Carey NUMBER TWO
DDDD. Addendum: Media History, Media Theory and Media Design in Art Education
EEEE. Andyland Book and compendium
First Draft of Thesis
The draft version of my thesis (Andyland: Network as Metaphor) is here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYYgvNCDMek0ZGdnNnByc2dfMTIyZGZnaGpkeDU&hl=en
This is about 1/2 written and of what is written about 1/2 is edited. So I guess I'm only a 1/4 of the way done.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYYgvNCDMek0ZGdnNnByc2dfMTIyZGZnaGpkeDU&hl=en
This is about 1/2 written and of what is written about 1/2 is edited. So I guess I'm only a 1/4 of the way done.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Proposed Installation Pics Uploaded to gallery
My initial proposed installation for the Great Space on April 7th can be viewed at the gallery page.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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