New Media in Late 20th-Century Art
Michael Rush
Chapter 1 & 9
The chapters title is "Digital art". Interactive art, which in the book refers to art on the web, and computer-based art that requires viewers participation to be complete is a pretty new art form. A young art form especially when compared to paintings and sculptures. The art form have been crititisized that it lacks the depth of interest and is superficial in its trickery.
The American photography critic A. D. Coleman reacted to what he saw at the International Festival of the Image 1993 in New York as too many buttons to push which resulted in to much sounds, flickers and changes. This kind of critic is part of peoples fear of new things out of their control. Interactive art is a glimpse into the future where the artists uses the technology with playfullnes and fearlessly alter forms and lets the user be a participated creator. To be a critic of Interactive Art is to be a brake pad of upcoming technological enhancements.
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Yeah, there's a kinda conservative people to whom it is difficult to see that there can be art forms that are experimental, polemical and linked to technology. Even more difficult for them is probably that the art expects participation. But it is obvious that media art is here to stay. One indication of that is that modern art museums are hugely popular places to go and people like to explore anything new.
ReplyDeleteI've been to a couple of modern art museums and it always makes me curious when there is an installation in digital format in the ongoing exhibition. I think there could be a lot of obstacles for Interactive Art being part of the exhibition since the museum directors wants to preserve classic paintings, and not let the interactive art take over too much. Every exhibition in modern art museums i've been to there has always been just one or two digital installations. As you say there is a huge interest in new things, so i'd like to see new museums that is a mix of Modern Art Museums and Museums of Science and Technology.
ReplyDeleteThe most interesting exhibition I've seen in the field was at Tate Museum in London where 4-5 big screens looped a movie scene with a tint of the basic colours. The colours and scenes switched after each 6 minutes, so that one movie scene could be watched in blue, then red, then purple and so on. The interesting part is how the participator perceived each scene depending in which color tint. Was the red color creating more emotions? Did the green create a more soft feeling? Did the purple create ambiguous interpretations?