Media Arts:A Brief History

Rama C. Hoetzlein

Nov 23rd, 2011

Department of Architecture and Media StudiesAalborg University Copenhagen

Early History of the Digital Object

Digital Image as Shape: Michael Noll, Bridget Riley's Painting Currents, 1966 (Bell Labs)Image Processing: Manfred Schroeder, Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, Studies in Perception I, 1966 (Murray Hill)Motion & Behavior: William Reeves, Fuzzy Objects (1983), Craig Reynolds, Flocks, Heards, Schools (1987)Surfaces: Jack Bresenham (1965), Pierre Bezier (1962), Ed Catmull (1973) Rendering: Bui Phong (1973), James Blinn (1976), Don Greenberg (1971), and Turner Whitted (1980)

signals

devices

behaviors

models

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Craig Reynolds, Boids, 1986

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John Conway, Game of Life, 1970

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Joshua Epstein, Modeling Civil Violence, 2002

red protestorgrey jailed protestorgreen civilianblue cop

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Pac Man, 1980, Namco, Toru Iwatani

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Galaga, 1981, Namco

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Sommerer & Mignoneau, Interactive Plant Growing, 1992

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Karl Sims, Evolving Virtual Creatures, 1994

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Processing (tool), Casey Reas & Benjamin Fry

The Creators Proximity of Needs Birds Manifest

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Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, Memo AtkenRoots, 2008

Biology(Natural Science)

Biology(Natural Science)

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genesis of new field through merging disciplines

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Biology(Natural Science)

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evolution through growth and commercialization

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Entertainment

Tool Makers

New Science

Art

Interactive Art

Digital Image as Shape: Michael Noll, Bridget Riley's Painting Currents, 1966 (Bell Labs)Image Processing: Manfred Schroeder, Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, Studies in Perception I, 1966 (Murray Hill)Motion & Behavior: William Reeves, Fuzzy Objects (1983), Craig Reynolds, Flocks, Heards, Schools (1987)Surfaces: Jack Bresenham (1965), Pierre Bezier (1962), Ed Catmull (1973) Rendering: Bui Phong (1973), James Blinn (1976), Don Greenberg (1971), and Turner Whitted (1980)

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Marcel Duchamp, 1920, Rotary Glass Plates

Interactive Art

Jean Tinguely, 1960, Homage to New York

Interactive Art

Naim Jun Paik, Video Art, 1970s

Interactive Art

Interactive Art

Scott Snibbe, Blow Up, 2005

Interactive Art

Ken Feingold, Autopoesis

Interactive Art

Stelarc, Hexapod, Third Hand, Ear on Arm

Interactive Art

Ken FeingoldAnimal, Vegetable, Minerals and Everything, 2004

Scott Snibbe, Boundary Funcitons, 1998

Interactive Art

Interactive Art

Golan Levin, Messa di Voce, 2003

Daniel Rosin, Wooden Mirror, 1999

Interactive Art

Interactive Art

Camille Utterback, Text Rain (1999), Active Ecosystem (2011)

Interactive Art

Joshua Kirsch, Concentricity 96, 2011

Interactive Art

Aegis Hyposurface, Media Architecture Institute, 2010

Sculpture

ComputerScience

InteractiveArt

ComputerScience

InteractiveArtSculpture

Grafitti Research Lab, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, 2009