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NEW MEDIA
New Media is a relatively new field of study that has developed around cultural practices with the computer playing a central role as the medium for production, storage and distribution.
New Media studies reflect on the social and ideological impact of the personal computer, computer networks, digital mobile devices, ubiquitous computing and virtual reality. The study includes researchers and propagators of new forms of artistic practices such as interactive installations, net art, software art, new interfaces for musical expression, the subsets of interaction, interface design and the concepts of interactivity, multimedia and remediation.
'Media' (the plural of medium) refer to technologies used to communicate messages and include mass media (newspapers, TV, radio), popular media (film, books) and digital media (computer games, the World Wide Web, virtual reality) and others.
'New' in this context means:
- the relative novelty of digital computing;
- the unprecedented speed of evolution and mutation of devices and technologies;
- undeveloped, imperfect and experimental environments;
- subjective novelty, most of the artists and theoreticians currently studying digital culture have migrated from different disciplines.
New media are also the common denominator of such disciplines as (new) media art (from Nam June Paik to net.art), (new) media activism, (new) media studies (from Marshall McLuhan to Lev Manovich) and journalistic media criticism (from Neil Postman to Howard Rheingold).
Artists
Artists who specialize in new media include:
- Melinda Rackham "is a new media artist who publishes on the Internet. You have to interact with her work in order to appreciate the outcome. Rackham likes having the global reach of an Internet-based gallery" Time|CNN.
- Ken Rinaldo. Works with natural systems and robotics to find poetic relationships. He is interested in a co-evolved coupling between natural and technological systems.
- Ian Haig. His work Web Devolution "invites the viewer to point and click, while it parodies the digital utopia." Time|CNN.
- Jeremy Hight has developed concepts for earthquake driven text and image work "Carrizo parkfield diaries" (in whitney artport) and several other projects linking science,technology and art through new media
Festivals
- STRP Eindhoven, Netherlands
See also
Related books
Online articles
- Media-N the Online Journal of the New Media Caucus. The journal reflects current discourse in New Media art practice, theory and education.
External links
- NMC.org A consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies
- Rhizome.org A website dedicated to Connecting Art and Technology
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