Readings 1 - 5

Question 1

Medium is the Message

Answer 1

The technology that communicates the message changes the message and us

Question 2

Body Immersive

Answer 2

Immersion of body into artwork → boundary between self and artwork becomes ambigious

Question 3

Time Continuity

Answer 3

Objects that have been changes over many years and molded by interraction can help dissolve the barrier of human understanding of time continuity and its vastness

Question 4

Transcending Boundaries

Answer 4

Humans create artificial boundaries to understand the world that seperates it into discrete components → some artwork is trying to change this by dissolving these boundaries

Question 5

Ryoji Ikeda - “Micro/Macro” & “Superposition”

Answer 5

“Micro/Macro” - uses lights and sounds to slowly shift a screen from small and quiet components to large and intense ones, makes use of computers and programming

“Superposition” - playing with sounds, codes, old technologies, incripted messaging systems, quickly changing visuals, has a cosmic but electronic vibe

Question 6

Post-media perspective

Answer 6

“Interface #4 / TFT tennis V180” - Virtual tennis game - Toy or artwork? Useful tool or piece of culture? Artifact of the new media art world —> NMA is truly inderdisciplinary, the collision of art and science and tech

Question 7

Dirk Koy: Luftraum

Answer 7

Playing with a highway, buildings, and cars and using visual effects to simulate impossible-looking urban-based structures - possibly discussing the vastness & imprialism of urbanization?

Question 8

Max Hattler: Serial Parallels

Answer 8

Looking at the unity and monotony of urban Hong Kong highrises, how they are just the same, completely, up and down - “gentle and “anxiety provoking”

Question 9

Halo

Answer 9

Scientific visualization of quantum physics - replication of a natural experience through since & tech, showcases actual scientific data of particle collisions

Question 10

“Parting the Wave”

Answer 10

Scientific visualization of quantum physics - show intensity and appearance particle interactions in a quantum system, using sound, color, and shape — essentially wanting to show how nature is mediated through science

Question 11

“The Machine at the End of the Mechanical Age”

Answer 11

Artsists & engineers now are working in tandem - in the past machines were not just for necessity, but for play, symbols, and attractions —> artists will continue to use them for that

Question 12

Inauguration of Experiments in Art and Technology

Answer 12

Industrial revolution forced averageness on man (everyone is the same) - it will be up to artists to bridge the gap and make technology friendly again, and both must work in tandem to create a new world that people are excited about

Question 13

Programming Art:Casey Reas

Answer 13

Creates art with programming and software → code & art as one, logic and procedures behind artwork —> emergence of the unexpected from rules and instructions, unsual way to work with computers

Question 14

Yoko Ono - “Grapefruit”

Answer 14

Instructions for artwork, not the actual artwork —> focusing on the experience and feeling, no production involved from the artist herself, its up to the viewer

Question 15

Alexander Rodchenko - “Constructivism”

Answer 15

Beauty in the construction and the components — antipolitical statements — evoking imagery of political propoganda posters and russian architecture

Question 16

“Perpetual Ocean”

Answer 16

Ocean currents from around the world for two years—> data as art

Question 17

“Global Winds”

Answer 17

Wind currents from around the world —> patterns show directions and colors show speed from dark red to white (high to low)

Question 18

Aaron Koblin Data Visualization

Answer 18

Presentation of data is a great interface to tell stories → data becoming artistic (flight patterns, communication radio waves & data, mechanical turk (easy for people, difficult for robots), ) → crowd sourced data

Question 19

Refik Anadol data visualizations

Answer 19

Can machines dream? - Data as pigments, immersion in art, AI —> using computers and science to describe human experience, blurring the line between AI/robots & humans —> expands the power of AI and humans and thus humans and AI

Question 20

“Infinity: Never Ending Film”

Answer 20

Composed of entirely generative technology - could theoretically go on forever and create an infinite number of characters

Question 21

Bored Ape Yacht Club

Answer 21

NFTs that are supposedly one of a kind that you can own → current lawsuit over the deceptive practices in their marketing and sale → artificially inflating the price?

Question 22

Symphonie Cinetique

Answer 22

Reanimation of metalic & reflective plates in tandem and controlled by music, like a dance with their own feelings and tones - uses reflection, sound, and movement —> movement into sound and sound into movement - essentially objects given life through music

Question 23

Petalclouds in Changi Airport

Answer 23

Kinetic artwork that “dances” to movement - six suspended sky petals

Question 24

Victimless Leather Jacket

Answer 24

Biological artwork - human & mice stem cells that was fed, living, multiplying, growed and changed in a way that no one could predict —> had to be shut down —> meant to be a critique on experimentation that goes on behind labratory doors —> brings up moral and ethical questions, what is life?