Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In offering up Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes, Gordon Winiemko notes: I could perform on cue myself, and provide a list of “new media” work that I like. I just recently took Janet Cardiff’s video walk-through of San Francisco MOMA again and, like the first time, it did not fail to move me. […]

Years after I acquired a bootleg of it on VHS tape, I can now watch the NBC Tomorrow Show interview with John Lydon on crisp (albeit riddled with lossy compression) DVD. DVD (digital versatile disc) is the long awaited improvement over the long-standing home video format, VHS (vertical helical scan). What the former gains […]

TRC 2-50 contributor Gordon Winiemko writes, in his essay Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes: I suppose there must have been a time when “performance art” seemed new or fresh. Still, it’s hard for me to understand how anyone could do a performance, as in “Now I will perform for you,” when everything […]

As someone who works with video, both as an artist and for hire, I [Gordon Winiemko] sometimes find myself documenting events, performances, art installations, and the like. Not long ago I provided my services for an artist renowned for confrontational, sometimes shocking performances. The whole thing was very multimedia. Well, now one would say “new […]

As TCR 2-50 guest editor Andrew Klobucar writes in his essay Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies: a more critical approach to current artistic interests in networks and digital media appears in Gordon Winiemko’s account of New Media installation art, where he shows how a clearly fetishised response to information networks can result in […]

In his essay The < body > of Net Art TCR 2-50 Jim Andrews reviews writings and artworks that share a creative interest in exploring these key aspects of the Web as important aesthetic qualities. He writes:
What I’ve tried to do here is look at the main types of resources and storage that contemporary […]

Another extension of the < body > of net art is its facilitation of growth and change over time according to what different people do with it collectively. For instance, a Wiki allows people to edit the pages of a website. Perhaps the most significant Wiki is wikipedia.org; for more Wikis, google the term. […]

As TCR 2-50 contributor Jim Andrews writes in his essay The < body > of Net Art: “Works of software art always make use of services available not remotely over the net, but rather from the operating system of the local computer. These range from tapping the computer’s graphic display device to its input/output devices […]

A work of net art has access to any number of web services that allow it to retrieve media and also analyze and respond to the language or other actions of the viewer. Web services are not just a type of memory for the brain of a work of net art, but provide some of […]

The < body > of net art can be conceptualized in many ways. In this essay Jim Andrews considers it as a kind of architecture.
But, first, let’s note that while the term “net art” has widely been identified as “web art,” i.e., art that you experience on the web in a browser, it […]