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Nov 8, 2022 · They show how games are expanding the horizons of fine art, not just in subject matter but also by providing new tools that radically increase the scope and scale of what a single artist can...
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Jun 17, 2022 · The role of video games, or more specifically online gaming, is becoming increasingly prevalent in our everyday lives, especially as platforms like Roblox and Fortnite take on a bigger role in online communication. What was the inspiration behind this exhibition and how is it relevant now?
- New Media Art Is Not New
- All Media Were Once New Media
- Art and Technology in The Late Industrial Age
- The Dada Precedent
- The Fluxus and Neo-Dada Precedent
- The Feminist Art Precedent
- The Industrial Age Becomes The Information Age
- How Is New Media Art Different from Traditional Art?
- New Media and 4-D Art
- Conclusion
So, what is New Media Art? By now you know that this question has multiple answers. Some contradict each other and some have yet to be proposed. The word “new” suggests novelty, but many elements of New Media Art were first explored by artists more than a century ago, and some even earlier. So many elements of New Media Art are not really new at al...
Because this book is meant as an introduction to New Media Art, we will examine projects that make use of emerging technologies with a focus on projects that are concerned with the cultural, political and aesthetic possibilities of those tools. But we will also examine New Media Art in the broader context of more traditional art media, drawing on t...
We can find the conceptual roots of New Media Art in early twentieth-century Europe, because artists in this time of turmoil invented entirely new artistic languages and techniques that form the foundation of New Media strategies and are still used by artists today. In the 1900s when the first motion pictures were made, there were many other radica...
Many historians link the history of New Media Art to the early twentieth-century, when the Dada movement emerged in Zurich, then Berlin, Cologne, Paris, and New York. Dada artists were highly critical of traditional institutions and the bourgeois culturethat they felt led Europe into the First World War. They were horrified by the industrialization...
In this book, we also consider approaches that engage the Elements of New Media Art and were influenced by Dada, John Cage, and the groups he influenced, including the development of Social Practice Art. Social Practice Art fully engages the New Media strategy of active viewer participation by trying to erase the notion of a viewer and proposing th...
For a generation of artists in the 1950s and 1960s who had witnessed the destruction of the Holocaust and the atomic bomb, the body and specifically their own body, offered a powerful medium to communicate shared physical and emotional experiences. In the politicized environment of the 1960s, many artists used performance art specifically to addres...
The formative years of New Media Art followed the end of the Cold War, when many artists were critical of capitalism and the victory of free-market ideology symbolized by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Many left-leaning artists saw the Internet as an opportunity to realize progressive, anti-capitalist ideals, including embracing a “gift econo...
New Media Art reflects dramatic changes in traditional ideas about how and why art should be made. New Media Art is often made by artists who aspire to question traditional notions of what art is, what art can be about, who makes art and why. As we will see in this book, these are questions that many artists were beginning to ask long before the Di...
Before the twentieth-century, art history used to focus on two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. Two-dimensional art like painting and drawing has a flat surface, with shapes that are given an illusion of mass and an illusion of space and movement by an artist using value, line and color. (See the Visual Analysis chapter for more information o...
We will continue to consider the various ways that New Media Art both differs from and is building on traditional art media throughout the rest of this textbook. As you explore the other chapters in this resource, you’ll also have many opportunities to consider how the works of art you’re examining relate to the proposed Elements of New Media Art a...
Dec 23, 2023 · While artists like A.M. Darke make interactive video games that people can play in the gallery or online, other artists take a different approach by using popular video games as a canvas...
Feb 22, 2024 · Eager creatives were soon creating video game art for early adopters of the medium such as Sega, Atari, and Nintendo. Let’s explore the history of video game art from the pixels of Pac-Man to the hyperrealism of games like The Last of Us Part I (2022) and Red Dead Redemption II (2018).
Jun 15, 2022 · Art & Tech. How Artists Are Increasingly Blurring the Lines Between Fine Art and Video Games. A new exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf unpacks the expanded role of virtual reality games in contemporary art. Lawrence Lek, Nepenthe Zone (2021–ongoing). Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles, London.
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Sep 8, 2022 · Explore the fascinating journey of video games, from their nostalgic roots to their influential place in modern art history. Discover how this digital medium has evolved into a significant cultural phenomenon.
