Media+Art

Media Art
Media Art refers to art created using 20th century media. This is a term that is blurred in its uses, and refers to artistic content made using a computer, electronics, the internet, art with features of interactivity, performance art, sound art, video art, etc. Despite the dispute between whether or not Media Art is a new concept, it has a variety of expressive potential for artists. As noted by Lev Manovich, art incorporating new media means that some kind of digital manipulation is involved, however the specific medium does not necessarily have to be new (Manovich, 2002). This means, for example, that an art film or digital photography are both new media. Media Artists > >>
 * David Rokeby
 * //Seen// (2002) - Venice Biennale of Architecture. This is one of David Rokeby's works that incorporates distorted images of passerby's on a street corner. In this artwork one can observe the people's movement, their appearance, disappearance, and absence. The work incorporates a projection of this imaging onto a large rectangular prisms, and produces an eerie, meditative effect.

Sources: Manovich, Lev. //New Media From Borges to HTML//. The New Media Reader, MIT Press. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_art http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/imagesandideas/pages/current/rokeby.html