Some New Media Art
We won’t be starting “at the beginning” today, nor even getting a total overview, but rather, jumping in to just a few different slices of the contemporary scene. Many many important things have been omitted!
Generative art.
- Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994, Karl Sims)
- Nokia Friends (2009, Toxi + Universal Everything)
- Furry & Furry’s Posse (2009, Matt Pyke)
- Field Showreel (2015, Field.io)
- Partitura (2011, Quayola + Abstract Birds)
- Forms (2012, Quayola + Memo Akten)
- Work & tools by Nervous System
- Generative wood Puzzle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrosenk/6071710142/
- Growing a Hyphae Lamp process and results
- Written Images (2011, d_effekt)
Information visualization.
- Baby Name Voyager (2005, Martin Wattenberg)
- Zipdecode (2004, Ben Fry)
- Wind Map (Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas)
- Works by Amanda Cox:
- NYC Street Trees (Jill Hubley, 2015)
Interactive art.
- Boundary Functions (1998, Scott Snibbe)
- Text Rain (1999, Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv)
- Rain Room (2012, Random International)
- Access (2003, Marie Sester)
- 21 Balançoires (Daily Tous les Jours / Mouna Andraos & Melissa Mongiat. 2012)
- Hand from Above (2008, Chris O’Shea + video)
- Sandbox and Under Scan (2010, 2005, Rafael Lozano Hemmer)
- Delicate Boundaries (2008) and Base8 (2011, Christine Sugrue)
- le Monde des Montaignes (2008, Camille Scherrer)
- Sniff (2011, Karolina Sobecka & Jim George)
- The Treachery of Sanctuary (2012, Chris Milk et. al)
- Puppet Parade, Rise and Fall, Night Bright (2006 -, Theo Watson + Emily Gobeille)
Critical Making & Tactical Media.
- Solar Sinter (2011, Markus Kayser)
- People Staring at Computers (2011, Kyle McDonald)
- Laser Tag (2006, Grafitti Research Lab)
- Nuage Vert (2008, Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen + video)
- The Eyewriter (2009, Evan Roth et. al)
- Follower (2017, Lauren McCarthy)
Other.
- IQ Font (2009, Zach Lieberman et al.)
- Receipt Racer (2011, Joshua Noble + d_effekt)
Claire’s Faves
An incomplete list of media art (and media art-adjacent) projects that inspire our teaching assistant, Claire Hentschker:
- Addie Wagenknecht, “Optimization of Parenthood, Part 2,”2012
- Ujoo+limheeyoung, “Machine with Hair Caught in It,” 2015
- Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn, “Inferno”, 2015
- Heider and Simmel Movie, 1944
- OK Go [Daito Manabe & Rhizomatiks Research], Obsession (Music Video), 2017
- Arca x Jesse Kanda, “Fluid Silhouettes” 2014
- SEVDALIZA [Pussykrew] – ‘That Other Girl’ 2015
- Jacolby Satterwhite Animations
- Luke Dubois, “A More Perfect Union” 2011
- Jean-Benoit Lallemant “Trackpad, US drone strikes” Wasiristan 2013
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg, ‘Stranger Visions’ 2012-23
- Kyle Mcdonald & Jonas Jongejan, Light leaks, 2013
- Yung Jake, “http://e.m-bed.de/d/” 2012 (turn off all popup blockers)
- Orlan, ‘Self-Hybridations’ 2014
- Jon Rafman, “9 Eyes”, Ongoing
- Cory Arcangel “Super Mario Clouds” 2002
- The New Inquiry, “White Collar Crime Risk Zones” 2017
- Zach Lieberman, “Landlines” 2016
- Gabriel Goh, Image Synthesis from Yahoo’s open_nsfw, 2017
- Tale of Tales, The Endless Forest, 2005
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Body Movies, 2001
- Prokop Bartoníček & Benjamin Maus “Jller”, 2017
- Maddy Varner, Kardashian Krypt, 2014
- Steve Lambert, Add-Art, 2008
- Bret Watanabe, San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, 2015-16