DIGITAL IMAGING 2
Instructor: Peter Thompson
Research Project Choices
(Revised 9/19/2002)
The Research Project you will carry out is an opportunity is to expose yourself to a wide spectrum of contemporary experimental categories of art and to artists living in many different nations who work in those categories. Your task is to have a good time browsing among the following rather extensive list of options, then to choose one and to research that person, the issues they are dealing with, and finally, to present their works and the fruits of that research to your colleagues. Do an internet search on a name; in some cases you can begin that process by simply clicking on a URL, below.
Due on Week 6 is a typed, spell-checked one paragraph summary of the person, issues and works you wish to deal with in PDF format using the InDesign application program. At that time you will draw lots for your presentation date later in the semester. On that date you will make a 10-minute summary presentation to your colleagues on the essence of what you have learned.
More specifically: on the date of your presentation, bring a digital text file in PDF format with embedded images, as appropriate, of the central concepts, works and resources dealing with your artist. Open the class partition and copy your file into the folder entitled “Research Presentations”. Your digital file should be at least 10-pages in length. Start your presentation by reading a typedone-paragraph summation of the central concept(s). Practice beforehand, because you will have ten minutes, and ten minutes only, to make your points! This opportunity will also be good practice for “pitches” and grant applications that you will have to do, over and over, forever and ever, for the rest of your professional life. Sigh.
The following URLs are from this invaluable resource: Stephen Wilson, INFORMATION ARTS, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002, 945 pages:
EXTENSIONS OF PHOTOGRAHY, CINEMA, VIDEO & LITERATURE
Jim Campbell
Ed Tannenbaum
Studio Azzurro
Su Do-Ho
Graham Harwood
Lisa Prah
Peter d’Agostino
Kevin and Jennifer McCoy
Lev Manovich
Judy Malloy
Jill Scott
Mark Amerika
Lynn Hershman
Peter Weibel
Christine Tamblyn
Joan Truckenbrod
Paul Sermon
Marita Liulia
Shu Lea Cheang
Brandon Project
Perry Hoberman Subdivision of the Electric Light
Marjorie Franklin Digital Blood
Claude Closky
Bill Seaman
Tamas Waliczky Butterfly Effect
Erwin Redl
Joseph Squires
Annette Weintraub
Jean-Louis Boissier
Constance DeJong
“Doors of Perception”
Erik Loyer Lair of the Marrow Monkey
Beverly Reiser
Toshio Iwai
Scott Sona Snibbe
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
ECOLOGICAL ART
Newton and Helen Harrison
Alan Sonfist
Mierle Landerman Ukeles
Agnes Denes
Paolo Soleri
NATURAL PHENOMENA: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS, WATER & WEATHER ART
Ned Kahn
Michael Brown
Athena Tacha
Bill and Mary Buchen
Robert Muolder and Kristi Allik
Mind into Matter exhibition
BODY & MEDICINE ART
Stelarc
Marcerl.li Antunez Roca
Stahl Stenslie
Orlan
Eduardo Kac
Paras Kaul
Catherine Richards
Steve Miller
TELEPRESENCE ART
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Stelarc
Project Taos
WEB ART ARCHIVE & INFO SITES
ZKM Net Condition
Walker Art Center Projects
Walker Art Center
Natalie Bookchin’s NetNetNet
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial Web Art
Pipsqueek Productions
Disinformation web Site
Barbara Lee and Beverly Reiser
Akke Wagenaar
J. Bradley Adams and Steven West
Vitaly Komas and Alex Melamid
Jenny Holzer
Paul Vanouse, Eric Nyberg and Lisa Hutton
Trevor Blackwell
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Amy Alexander
Mark Napier
Peter M. Traub
Bonnie Mitchell
Knowbotic Research
Madelyn Starbuck
Sharon Daniel
Carol Flax
Abbe don
Jodi
Linus Torwalds
Igor Stromajer
Nick Philip
Judy Malloy
C5
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Etoy
Digi-crime
Fred Forest
Herman Hack
Su Lea Cheang
Konrad Becker’s “Remote Viewing”
Jenny Marketou
Steven Greenwood
Jeffrey Shaw
Yahoo Cool Links Directory
MICROWORLD, PLANTS & ANIMAL ART
George Gessert
Athena Tacha
Hubert Duprat
Eric Samakh and David Rokeby
ATOMIC PHYSICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY ART
Shawn Brixey
Felice Frankel
SPACE ART
Tom Van Sant
Michael Heivly
Pauline Oliveros
ALGORHYTHMIC ART
Institute for Artificial Art
Roman Verostko
John Maeda & MIT Media Lab Aesthetics and Computation Group
Stewart Dickson
4-D web site
Clifford Pickover
ARTIFICAL LIFE & GENETIC ART
A-Life on Line
Joel Slayton
Louis Bec
Yves Klein
Thomas Ray
Digital Biodiversity Preserve
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Karl Sims
UCLA A-Life art exhibition
KINETICS, SOUND INSTALLATIONS, ROBOT ART
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California at Berkeley
Rodney Brooks
CONCEPTUAL KINETICS & ELECTRONICS ART
Milton Komisar
Bryan Rogers
Perry Hoberman
Bruce Cannon
KINETIC INSTRUMENTS, SOUND SCULPTURE
Nigel Helyer
Trimpin
Bill Fontana
Bart Hopkins
ROBOT ART
Simon Penny
Survival Research Labs
Robot Wars
Seemen
Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn
Chico MacMurtie’s Amorphous Robotics Works
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