I spent the day working with my presentation partner, Maria, to prepare for our presentation to our Seminar in Art Education, which we all fondly call "Multimedia" on the topic of- no less than- "What is Multimedia?" Our job is to facilitate a "lively" discussion on the topic. We read chapters from Inventing the Medium by J. Murray and Principles of New Media by L. Manovich and we looked at two interesting web sites www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/index.html and www.sfmoma.org/msoma/index.html .
We decided to facilitate by inventing a game around 10 questions. Here they are for your consideration. Weigh in if you have any brilliant insights.
1. What is the defining principle(s) of new media? What is a new media object and what distinguishes it from an old media object?
2. Discuss the influences of the Industrial Revolution and Postmodernism on the development of new media?
3. What were the parallel tendencies in modern art and computing technology after WW II.
4. What are the moral implications of new media?
5. Is it true that without discrete units that there is no languange and therefore no communication? Why or why not?
6. Why do we struggle to make computers coherent and expressibe despite all that can be said of their inhuman rigidity? How does our interst in engaging with computers reflect our culture and humanity?
7. Is it possible for human intentionality to be completely removed from the creative process? What are the implications of such a possibility?
8. How do modularity, automation, variablity, and transcoding depend upon new media being mathematical and programmable? How is that different from old media?
9. If the computer is a universal machine capable of representing anything, then can it represent all of human knowledge?
10. What is the "Yin and Yang" of the new media collaboration between engineer and artist?
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y0u have completely outgrown your mamma. Half the questions I didn't even recognize the terminology. Go girl.
no, we can never capture all the knoledge on the computer because so much of it is still within us.
Love and welcome back. Mom
ps. I can spell but typing is another thing. Mom P.S. that would be knowledge.
What's the difference between human intentionality and human intention? Sounds like one of them fancy-pants words only smart-asses use.
I trust you will learn all of this stuff, filter it down, throw out the nonsense, and then teach us?
Intentionality? Is it really a word?
Actually, this is right up my alley. I have several books on New Media and have lots of links and there are some GREAT galleries and artists that deal in New Media. Lev Manovich is a great start into New Media. I made my Indy Study students read a short article by him last year and I plan to make the AP kids read it as well. You are making me envious. This wasn't on the radar at UH when I was there. I desire some good debate/conversion on this topic.
I am so glad you got to experience it.
Nina
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