understand digital art instantly

LIMA, February 19, 2016

Sandra Fauconniersandra.fauconnier@gmail.com@sanseveria

history of digital art in 20 minutes1. timeline2. (themes)

new media artinformation arts

computer artdigital art

tool vs mediumproduction

storagecharacteristics

1940 1950 1960 1970

Memex

ENIAC (UPenn)

Cybernetics

hypertext hypermedia

ARPANET

interfacemouse

Xerox PARC: GUI

1940 1950 1960 1970

Memex

ENIAC (UPenn)

Cybernetics

hypertext hypermedia

ARPANET

interfacemouse

Xerox PARC: GUI

Dada Fluxusconceptual art

instructions concept, event, audience participation

The ZUSE Graphomat Z64 drawing machine in 1964. Credit: Robert Rohrbach

Frieder Nake, 13/9/65 Nr. 2, 1965 (also known as Homage to Paul Klee). Digital Art Museum, Berlin

A. Michael Noll Gaussian Quadratic © AMN 1965 1962

John WhitneyPermutations, 1966

Frieder NakeMichael A. NollBela JuleszGeorg NeesJohn WhitneyCharles CsuriVera Molnar

Lejaren Hillen at the University of IllinoisIlliac I computer – Illiac Suite for String Quartet, 1957

Howard Wise GalleryComputer-Generated Pictures exhibition, 1965

Cybernetic Serendipityexhibition at ICA London curated by Jasia Reichardt, 1968

Tendencies 4Zagreb, Museum of Art and Work & Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1968-69

Software, exhibition at Jewish Museum organized by Jack Burnham, 1970

launched 1967by Billy Klüver, Fred Wadhauer, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman

Harold CohenAARON at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1977

academiaresearch centers / labs

military-industrial complexconsumer culture

Zomerzegels 1970, graphic design: R.D.E. Oxenaar, in collaboration with the group numerical control of the department business science i.o., Technical University Eindhoven.

Zomerzegels 1970, graphic design: R.D.E. Oxenaar, in collaboration with the group numerical control of the department business science i.o., Technical University Eindhoven.

Edward IhnatowiczSenster robotic sculpture

at Evoluon, Eindhoven1971-74

1980 1990 20002010

academiaresearch centers / labs

military-industrial complexconsumer culture

digital citizenship / activism

Leonardo Journal founded 1968SIGGRAPH, first conference 1974

Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) founded 1979V2_ (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) founded 1981

ISEA, first symposium 1988ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) founded 1989

Aesthetics of the digital • Art and cinematography • Artificial intelligence, intelligent agents • Artificial life •

Bodies, surrogates, emergent systems • Body and identity • Charged environments • Coded form and electronic

production • Cyborg bodies • Databases, data visualization, mapping • Gaming • Generative tools •

Mapping and text • Mobile and locative media • Motion, duration, illumination • Networks, surveillance, culture

jamming • Photo / byte • Public sphere • Simulations and simulacra • Social networking • Sound and image •

Tactical media, activism, hacktivism • Technologies of the future • Telepresence, telematics, telerobotics • Text and

narrative environments • Virtual worlds

Kit Galloway & Sherrie RabinowitzHole in Space, 1980

Lynn Hershman LeesonLorna, 1979-1984Collection ZKM | Center for Art and Media

Robert Adrian XDie Welt in 24 Stunden, Sept 27-28, 1982, Ars Electronica Festival

The Thinginitiated by Wolfgang Staehle, 1991

Jeffrey Shaw with Dirk Groeneveld: The Legible City, 1989-1991

ART+COM: Terravision (1994)

Google Earth initial release: 2001

Antonio MuntadasThe File Room, 1994

Granular SynthesisModell 5, 1994-96

StelarcPing Body, 1995

JODI, wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, 1995?

Martine Neddam, Mouchette.org, 1996

Cory ArcangelSuper Mario Clouds2002collection Whitney Museum of American Art

Tale of TalesThe Endless Forest2005

Aram Bartholl, “Map,” 2013. Aram Bartholl/datenform.de

F.A.T. LabAugust 1, 2015http://fffff.at/rip/