New Media Art Reference

New Media Art entry in Wikepedia provides a concise introduction which links to more subcategories and practices within New Media Art.

Bitforms Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, The Knockdown Center, Pioneer Works, Flux Factory frequently feature career artists who work with digital and computational media.

Elektra is the world’s largest electronic music festival hosted annually in Montreal, Canada. It features electronic musicians and video artists who create original audio visual effects using software and hardware.

Leonardo is a professional academic journal published by MIT Press. It features electronic art theory and practice on a regular basis.

Eyebeam and SFPC(School for poetic computation) are leading New Media Art education and research centers located within New York city.

Prix Ars Electronica is a major electronic art award, incorporated in Linz, Austria.

Blogs like Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Creators, Creative Applications frequently feature projects that fall within the space between Art and Technology.

Below is a list of New Media Artists who frequently use code and digital technology in their artistic practice. Hopefully, their unique practices crossing multiple disciplines could inspire you and your own students to combine technology and art in your own way.

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Generative Arts

Project Critique

2:00 - 4:00 PM

2 Hours

1. Web Game: Mollenindustria
2. Bio Art:  Heather Dewy-Haborg, Zach Blas
3. Generative Art: Casey Reas, Raven Kwok
4. Interaction Art and Design: Zach Libberman
5. Robotics: Simone Girtz, Bill Vorn
6. Net Art: Sam Lavign, Ying Miao  
7. Gif Art: Carla Gannis
8. Digital Fabrication: Roopa Vasudevan, Addie Wagenknecht
9. Net Art: Sam Lavign, Ying Miao
10. Electronics Art: Nam Jun Paik
11. Physical Computing: Jean Tinguely
12. Hacktivism: loophole4all(more image), deaddrops, Aram Bartholl

Workshop

4:30 - 6:00 PM

1.5 Hours

Examples:

1. Matrix: for loop demonstration
2. RGB: rgb crawler
3. Painter: advanced crawler

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Interactive Arts

Workshop

7:00 - 9:00 PM

2 hours

Examples:

1. Glitch a picture
2. Poster: Face Detection
3. Simple Black Box: Skeleton Tracking
4. Sound Point Cloud: Depth + Mic Input
5. Infinite Window: Browser console JS

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Game Arts

Project Critique

1. Web Game: Mollenindustria
2. Simulation Art: Ian Cheng, John Gerrard
3. 3D Animation: David O'reilly
4. 3D Scanning: Ziv Schneider
5. Multidiciplinary: Jacolby Sadderwhite

Workshop:

Examples:

1. Tv on a plane: texture, model, fog, lighting
2. 一人跳多人广场舞: Kinect Skeleton tracking + rigging