network aesthetics celia pearce lcc4730 spring 2009
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Network Aesthetics
Celia Pearce
lcc4730
Spring 2009
William GibsonNeuromancer, 1984
What are the material properties
of the network?
Proto-Network Art
Electronic Cafe InternationalSatellite Arts Project
"A Space With No Geographical Boundaries,” 1977
Objective: To demonstrate (for the first time), that several performing artists, all of whom would be separated by oceans and geography, could appear and perform together in the same live image (The image as place). Everyone would see themselves all together, standing next to each other, able to talk with each other, and alas, perform together -- "A performance space with no geographic boundaries".
Electronic Cafe InternationalHole-In-Space
A Public Communication Sculpture, 1980
A live video link between Los Angeles and New York.
• ART-COM was a multi-disciplinary laboratory at Loyola Marymount University in which graduate students used performance as the mode of investigation to study and comment on their experiences of "living in" a composite-image space. Students also explored performing everyday tasks, and collaborative problem solving, and theatre skits mimicking life situations with their fellow students who were at a remote site on campus.
Electronic Cafe International
Aesthetic Research in Telecommunications, 1982
Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.
In 1984, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival, Galloway and Rabinowitz designed Electronic Cafe, which utilized a variety of communications technologies to link five ethnically diverse L.A. communities—ten years before the Internet.
Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.
"Local residents communicated with each other, creating art, discussing the world, and sharing words and images using the equipment.” -- Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994
Gumbo HouseSouth Central L.A.
Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.
"In a city noted for its geographical divisiveness, the project helped forge links between people who might not otherwise have become acquainted.” -- Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994
East L.A. Venice, CA
The Internet as Mass Medium
Tim Berners-LeeWorld Wide Web
First web sever, CERN, 1991
Marc Andreessen and Eric BinaMosaic, 1993
First we-browser
ART+COM
Terravision, 1995
http://www.artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acprojects&page=6&id=5&Itemid=144&details=0&lang=en
Google Earth
Jane Prophet, Gordon Selley, and Mark Hurry
Technosphere, 1995
http://www.janeprophet.com/technosphere1.html
Bruce Damer/Biota.org
Nerve Garden, 1997
Robotic Garden controlled via Internet
http://www.telegarden.org/tg/
Ken Goldberg, Joseph Santarromana & TeamTelegarden
Maurice BenayounThe Tunnel Under the Atlantic
A virtual tunnel between Montreal and Paris
Josh PortwayNoodle, 1999
Network music collaboration
Lise Autogena & Josh PortwayBlack Shoals, 2001
Stock Market Planetarium
The Aesthetics of Community
StephensonSnow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1992
First web sever, CERN, 1991
ActiveWorldsLucasArts Habitat, 1986
Chip Morningstar & Randy Farmer: “Avatar”
ActiveWorlds, 1995
ActiveWorlds
OnLive, 1995
OnLive, 1995
DigitalSpace Traveler(Bruce Damer)
VRML
Bliss.comBlitcom w/ Celia Pearce (1997)
Time magazine Editor
Richard Stengel