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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is
today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when
it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other
twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile
response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and
critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as
digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science,
the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the
myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is
able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually
fragment the computer art movement.
"A.S. Eye See It" is a visual wonderland of digital sketches. The
images speak for themselves. It includes art drawn with the use of
an eyegaze enabled augmentative communication device, as well as
hand drawn digital art. The artist is 7 years old and has
Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy. "A.S. Eye See It" transcends physical
reality, and projects a brand new digital landscape.
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Origin of Birds
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Kathy McTavish; Notes by Sheila Packa
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A fully bilingual catalogue (English/Japanese) for an exhibition of
the Japanese video/film artist Yu Araki, at The Container, Tokyo.
The catalogue explores in writings and images Araki's practice and
the exhibition "Wrong Translation," featuring a video installation
inspired by Araki's recent residency in Santander, Spain, summer
2013. The video installation, entitled "ANGELO LIVES," makes
references to Shusaku Endo's novel "Silence" (1966), and
fictitiously narrated by Anjiro, a Japanese convicted murderer who
fled Japan to the Malaysian state Malacca in the 16th century,
returning later back to Japan with Saint Francis Xavier and two
additional Jesuits, as an interpreter, in what is documented as the
first Jesuit mission to Japan. The installation also forges false
connections between the spread of Christianity to the new world and
the export of olive oil. The Container, as the name suggests, is no
more than a constructed shipping container (485x180x177cm) in
Nakameguro, Tokyo. The exhibition space, the brainchild of
Tokyo-based curator Shai Ohayon, invites Japanese and international
artists to make site-specific installations four times a year. Each
installation remains on view to the public for two-and-a-half
months. www.the-container.com
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Birdland
(Paperback)
Kathy McTavish; Introduction by Sheila Packa
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Composer and cellist Kathy McTavish writes about her music and
experimental film. This book features sequences of black and white
photo images from the film "birdland," photographs of cello
performance and includes a long poem, or score, for her unique
fusion form. McTavish has received Jerome Foundation, American
Composers Forum commissions and several awards from the Arrowhead
Regional Arts Council.
In *Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary,"* Elayne Zalis
explores personal and cultural memories of life in the United
States during the second half of the twentieth century. Blending
fact and fiction, the retrospective brings together artistic,
multimedia, and literary texts from her repertoire. A childhood
diary that Zalis kept in the mid-1960s inspired these transmedia
experiments. The book includes reproductions of more than twenty
color and black-and-white images. For additional background, see
www.TheMemoryChannel.com.
The 0ne Rupee Film Project is an independent and ultra-low-budget
crowd-funded feature length docu-fiction out of India. The makers
of the film had to go through a 474 day long fundraising campaign.
They asked for a minimum contribution of one rupee from everyone
they came across. Thus, 2,85,000 Indian rupees could be raised to
complete the production and the initial stages of post-production.
The film is titled Aashmani Jawaharat aka Diamonds in the Sky but
the campaign had been so huge that it is still popularly recognized
as the one rupee film. The books of this series contains stories,
backgrounds and experiences the makers of the 0ne Rupee Film
Project had during this extra-ordinary journey of theirs. If you
are interested in what kind of reality the marginal independent
filmmakers have to face or what unique face of reality they see
everyday, this book will surely amuse you.
The catalog of an exhibition at the Los Angeles Center for Digital
Art, November, 2012 consisting of photographs, abstract images, and
videos.
A collection of digital art renderings of British Columbia.
A fabulous, vivid and spectacular display of full color artistic
renderings by Jewels Gold. From Outer-Space to "Out-of-Place"
geometric designs, these may-day modern marvels will brighten your
day and please your palette for the new and unconventional Superb
stylish variety Enjoy this large sampling of the graphic art you
will enjoy for ages to come, many other editions coming soon All of
these graphic renderings were created on the best loved drawing App
of the year: Trippin Fest
What's Hollywood like behind the scenes? How does real life
compare to reel life? Do the stars create more drama off-screen
than on? Is the local social network really full of desperate
housewives? How can an English writer find work?
Setting up home in Los Angeles involved some real shocks,
several of which registered really high on the Richter scale. Only
in California would an entire school be taken outside on Halloween
to dance to "Ghostbusters." Only in LA would an 8 year-old know
that the man at the carwash had three teardrops tattooed beneath
his eye because he'd killed three rival gangmembers. Only in
Hollywood would a woman have a sign at the end of her drive saying,
"Honk if you've had me." Only in this crazy city would they make it
illegal for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church.
In this refreshingly frank memoir, English screenwriter Tim John
reveals how his family survived their seven year adventure living
and working in LA-LA land.
Shoot Me Now - Making Videos to Boost Business, outlines what's
happening in the online world of video and how to make videos that
engage your audience. The easy to read structure of this book
allows you to jump to the section most relevant for you. In 2012,
video accounted for 34% of internet traffic. In 2017 it will be
69%. This book outlines how to make videos that stand out from the
noise and what types of productions are most suited to you and your
business. Online video is here to stay and if you are serious about
being in business you need to be watched and be watchable. With
online video you only have a few seconds to grab the attention of
your audience. And once you have their attention how do you
maintain it and convert that interest into business for you? Shoot
Me Now covers how to prepare and plan your video, how to
efficiently produce it, the traps to avoid, what types of videos
are best suited for your needs, how to distribute your video and
how to look like a million dollars without spending it.
By 1937, Cary Grant had invented a man-of-the-world, the epitome of
sophistication, class, and refinement. In his words, "I pretended
to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or
he became me. Or we met at some point."This fizzy cocktail of a
book lifts the veil off the debonair screen persona to reveal a
real-life man full of inconsistencies and incongruities. It
provides an unvarnished portrait of someone constantly in conflict
- antic, serious, funny, poised, and a romantic who struggled in
his own love life. You get a little history and a bit of sociology.
But the most fun comes from an abundant helping of bon mots. His
contemporaries as well as subsequent observers have plenty to say
about the man who became Cary Grant. And his own undisguised words
provide a sublime, truthful, and candid portrait of a curiously
uncommon character.
Why embodied approaches to cognition are better able to address the
performative dimensions of art than the dualistic conceptions
fundamental to theories of digital computing. In Making Sense,
Simon Penny proposes that internalist conceptions of cognition have
minimal purchase on embodied cognitive practices. Much of the
cognition involved in arts practices remains invisible under such a
paradigm. Penny argues that the mind-body dualism of Western
humanist philosophy is inadequate for addressing performative
practices. Ideas of cognition as embodied and embedded provide a
basis for the development of new ways of speaking about the
embodied and situated intelligences of the arts. Penny argues this
perspective is particularly relevant to media arts practices. Penny
takes a radically interdisciplinary approach, drawing on
philosophy, biology, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience,
cybernetics, artificial intelligence, critical theory, and other
fields. He argues that computationalist cognitive rhetoric, with
its assumption of mind-body (and software-hardware) dualism, cannot
account for the quintessentially performative qualities of arts
practices. He reviews post-cognitivist paradigms including
situated, distributed, embodied, and enactive, and relates these to
discussions of arts and cultural practices in general. Penny
emphasizes the way real time computing facilitates new modalities
of dynamical, generative and interactive arts practices. He
proposes that conventional aesthetics (of the plastic arts) cannot
address these new forms and argues for a new "performative
aesthetics." Viewing these practices from embodied, enactive, and
situated perspectives allows us to recognize the embodied and
performative qualities of the "intelligences of the arts."
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