New Media Art (Leaving Cert Art): Flashcards
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New media art definition
New media art definition
Artworks created using electronic & digital technologies
A key characteristic of new media art
A key characteristic of new media art
Often interactive, engaging viewers as active participants
Examples of new media art forms
Examples of new media art forms
Virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive installations
Origins of new media art
Origins of new media art
19th-century tech like praxinoscope and phenakistiscope
Robert Rauschenberg's 'Broadcast' (1959)
Robert Rauschenberg's 'Broadcast' (1959)
One of the first examples of interactive art
Non-linearity in new media art
Non-linearity in new media art
Multiple pathways & audience interaction, not linear
Afrofuturism definition
Afrofuturism definition
Deconstructs African diaspora using sci-fi, tech, & fantasy
Sun Ra's role in Afrofuturism
Sun Ra's role in Afrofuturism
Pioneer who used synthesisers in Sun Ra Arkestra
Main preservation challenge
Main preservation challenge
Format obsolescence as technology becomes outdated
Vera Frenkel's themes
Vera Frenkel's themes
Forced exile, migration, and diaspora
Jeffrey Shaw's nationality & specialty
Jeffrey Shaw's nationality & specialty
Australian artist, pioneered digital media in interactive art & VR
Maurice Benayoun's media
Maurice Benayoun's media
Computer graphics, video, Internet tech, and 3D printing
Alexei Shulgin's focus after 1990
Alexei Shulgin's focus after 1990
Internet art, formed Moscow-WWW-Art-Lab
Petra Cortright's movement
Petra Cortright's movement
Net-Art movement and post-Internet artist
Ada Lovelace's contribution
Ada Lovelace's contribution
Wrote the first computer programme in the 1840s