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Mark Tribe's "Defining New Media Art" is a compelling read. Of course many might argue that statement, but I am continually being pulled towards the New Media Arts aesthetic. I personally feel that the old models of art making and propagation have become passé and redundant. The art world as we know it is collapsing under it's own self imposed importance. From my naive perspective, it is the New Media artists that have pulled out the foundations of the stagnant and stale art world- paving inlets to new possibilities of human expression.
Artists have always led the vanguard of change. This current digital upheaval is no different than the cultural revolutions of the past. Of course the elements of change have evolved, but it is still the wide eyed artists at play that spur the tide forward. Tribe's introduction to New Media Arts gives historical reference to this current movement and offers a "Who's Who" list of the dominant players.
Check out the videos and links below to further your understanding of this current cultural movement.
ACCESS - an interactive art installation by Marie Sester
Ouija 2000 Art Opening
Mendi + Keith Obadike - 4 Electric Ghosts
Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States. Founded in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
Eva and Franco Mattes are the artist-provocateurs behind the infamous website 0100101110101101.ORG. Since meeting in Madrid in 1994 they have never separated, living a nomadic life throughout Europe and the US.
Among the pioneers of the Net Art movement, they are renowned for their masterful subversion of public media. They first gained notoriety by snagging the domain name Vaticano.org (1998) in order to undermine the Catholic Church’s official website. They then went on a cloning spree, copying and remixing other artists’ works, targeting “closed” websites, and turning private art into public art.
Over time the Mattes have turned from virtual to physical space for their surreal artistic interventions. They caught the mainstream art world with its pants down with the invention of Darko Maver: this reclusive, radical artist achieved cult status and was featured in the Venice Biennale before turning out to be pure fiction.
Among the pioneers of the Net Art movement, they are renowned for their masterful subversion of public media. They first gained notoriety by snagging the domain name Vaticano.org (1998) in order to undermine the Catholic Church’s official website. They then went on a cloning spree, copying and remixing other artists’ works, targeting “closed” websites, and turning private art into public art.
Over time the Mattes have turned from virtual to physical space for their surreal artistic interventions. They caught the mainstream art world with its pants down with the invention of Darko Maver: this reclusive, radical artist achieved cult status and was featured in the Venice Biennale before turning out to be pure fiction.
Their performances include affixing fake architectural heritage plaques (An Ordinary Building, 2006), rolling out a media campaign for a non-existent action movie (United We Stand, 2005) and even convincing the people of Vienna that Nike had purchased the city’s historic Karlsplatz and was about to rename it “Nikeplatz” (Nike Ground, 2003). Recently Franco committed suicide on a chat webcam, sort of (No Fun, 2010).
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