Misplaced Pages

#969030

52-565: The Stadtwerkstatt was founded in 1979 as an association in Linz with the "aim of critically examining the conditions of life in the city and promoting cultural initiatives on a popular level." In 1980, the association moved into a vacant factory building in the Urfahr district of Linz, near the Danube . The building was used for residential purposes as well as for exhibitions and events. Shortly before demolition

104-481: A common ground that has parallels in other strands of contemporary art practice. Such insights emphasize the forms of cultural practice that arise concurrently with emerging technological platforms, and question the focus on technological media per se. New Media art involves complex curation and preservation practices that make collecting, installing, and exhibiting the works harder than most other mediums. Many cultural centers and museums have been established to cater to

156-612: A houseboat in Linz's Winter Harbor. In 2012, the currency Gibling was initiated under the label punkaustria.at. This depreciating currency loses value every year. Every year an artist is invited to design this currency. The artists were Oona Valerie , Leo Schatzl , Deborah Sengl , Michael Aschauer , Judith Fegerl , Julius Deutschbauer , Eva Grün , Peter Weibel , OrtnerSchinko, Shu Lea Cheang and Franz Xaver . Since 2015, STWST48, an annual 48-hour showcase extravaganza, takes place in September. This international event presents

208-506: A larger context of sensation, communication, production, and consumption. When obtaining a bachelor's degree in New Media, students will primarily work through practice of building experiences that utilize new and old technologies and narrative. Through the construction of projects in various media, they acquire technical skills, practice vocabularies of critique and analysis, and gain familiarity with historical and contemporary precedents. In

260-415: A representation of a two-spirit or non-binary persona that does not fall under the traditional description of drag. The emergence of 3D printing has introduced a new bridge to new media art, joining the virtual and the physical worlds. The rise of this technology has allowed artists to blend the computational base of new media art with the traditional physical form of sculpture. A pioneer in this field

312-555: A significant component of contemporary art. The inter-connectivity and interactivity of the internet , as well as the fight between corporate interests, governmental interests, and public interests that gave birth to the web today, inspire a lot of current new media art. One of the key themes in new media art is to create visual views of databases. Pioneers in this area include Lisa Strausfeld , Martin Wattenberg and Alberto Frigo. From 2004–2014 George Legrady 's piece "Making Visible

364-432: A total of 12 hours of live interactive TV called "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" for six consecutive days, which 320,000 households were able to receive via cable. One of these broadcasts was scheduled to air on a date that normally included a weekly broadcast of radical Christians. In order to initially conceal from the viewers the fact that now "STWST-TV" was doing programming instead of the show usually taking place at this time,

416-514: Is a self-referential relationship with the new technologies, the result of finding oneself inside an epoch-making transformation determined by technological development. New media art does not appear as a set of homogeneous practices, but as a complex field converging around three main elements: 1) the art system, 2) scientific and industrial research, and 3) political-cultural media activism. There are significant differences between scientist-artists, activist-artists and technological artists closer to

468-600: Is an interdisciplinary genre that explores the African diaspora experience, predominantly in the United States, by deconstructing the past and imagining the future through the themes of technology, science fiction, and fantasy. Musician Sun Ra , believed to be one of the founders of Afrofuturism, thought a blend of technology and music could help humanity overcome the ills of society. His band, The Sun Ra Arkestra, combined traditional Jazz with sound and performance art and were among

520-699: Is named after Urfahr, a former city, today a borough of Linz , seat of the district's administration ( Bezirkshauptmannschaft ). Towns ( Städte ) are indicated in boldface ; market towns ( Marktgemeinden ) in italics . 48°24′25″N 14°16′41″E  /  48.407°N 14.278°E  / 48.407; 14.278 New media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art , computer graphics , computer animation , digital art , interactive art , sound art , Internet art , video games , robotics , 3D printing , immersive installation and cyborg art . The term defines itself by

572-475: Is that the formats continuously change over time. Former examples of transitions include that from 8-inch floppy disks to 5.25-inch floppies, 3-inch diskettes to CD-ROMs, and DVDs to flash drives. On the horizon is the obsolescence of flash drives and portable hard drives, as data is increasingly held in online cloud storage . Museums and galleries thrive off of being able to accommodate the presentation and preservation of physical artwork. New media art challenges

SECTION 10

#1732848160970

624-575: The "Independent Filmmakers Linz (ULF)" and participated in exhibitions and the production of plays. But the members and artists of the Stadtwerkstatt also regularly undertook - often unusual - actions themselves, such as an "escalator concert" in the shopping arcade of the Lentia 2000 building complex in 1983 or the "machine room concert" in the Linz " Galerie Hofstöckl" in 1982. Poster exhibitions such as "4 years of optical megaphone" in 1984, as well as

676-730: The Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine or CIC coproduced with Centre Georges Pompidou from Paris and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne the first internet video archive of new media art. Simultaneously advances in biotechnology have also allowed artists like Eduardo Kac to begin exploring DNA and genetics as a new art medium. Influences on new media art have been the theories developed around interaction, hypertext , databases, and networks . Important thinkers in this regard have been Vannevar Bush and Theodor Nelson , whereas comparable ideas can be found in

728-453: The media artists : In 1991 and 1992 "STWST-TV" created broadcasts for Ars Electronica with the mottos "Out Of Control" and "Endo and Nano" , which were shown on 3sat and ORF 2 . In 1993, a STWST-TV presentation was shown live on Channel 5 on Amsterdam cable. In the same year, the media group presented its program "CBB Por Ejemplo" at various universities in Cochabamba , Bolivia. All of

780-611: The 1920s many Cabaret acts began incorporating film projection into performances. Robert Rauschenberg 's piece Broadcast (1959), composed of three interactive re-tunable radios and a painting, is considered one of the first examples of interactive art. German artist Wolf Vostell experimented with television sets in his (1958) installation TV De-collages. Vostell's work influenced Nam June Paik , who created sculptural installations featuring hundreds of television sets that displayed distorted and abstract footage. Beginning in Chicago during

832-526: The 1970s, there was a surge of artists experimenting with video art and combining recent computer technology with their traditional mediums, including sculpture, photography, and graphic design. Many of the artists involved were grad students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago , including Kate Horsfield and Lyn Blumenthal , who co-founded the Video Data Bank in 1976. Another artists involved

884-690: The AIDS virus was depicted on the cover of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications in November 1988. At the University of Illinois in 1989, members of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory Carolina Cruz-Neira , Thomas DeFanti , and Daniel J. Sandin collaborated to create what is known as CAVE or Cave Automatic Virtual Environment an early virtual reality immersion using rear projection. In 1983, Roy Ascott introduced

936-575: The Danube, the Nibelungen Bridge and next to the Ars Electronica Center . The Stadtwerkstatt building houses the café and pub "Café Strom" on the ground floor, a large hall on the 1st floor as well as the studio of Radio FRO and an adjoining room often used as a bar or DJ room during events. In accordance with its goal as an association, the Stadtwerkstatt promoted "cultural initiatives" such as

988-641: The Invisible" displayed the normally unseen library metadata of items recently checked out at the Seattle Public Library on six LCD monitors behind the circulation desk. Database aesthetics holds at least two attractions to new media artists: formally, as a new variation on non-linear narratives; and politically as a means to subvert what is fast becoming a form of control and authority. Many new media art projects also work with themes like politics and social consciousness, allowing for social activism through

1040-558: The Stadtwerkstatt has been able to make its own broadcasting concepts accessible to larger groups of viewers on several occasions. At the Wels Film Festival in 1987, "STWST-TV" presented a five-day live broadcast called "Hoteltelevision" , which could be received in a Wels hotel using the hotel's own TV system. In 1989, "STWST-TV" was featured at the "Querspur" video festival, and in 1990, media activists in Buffalo, New York , broadcast

1092-681: The advanced needs of new media art. The origins of new media art can be traced to the moving image inventions of the 19th century such as the phenakistiscope (1833), the praxinoscope (1877) and Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope (1879). From the 1900s through the 1960s, various forms of kinetic and light art, from Thomas Wilfred 's 'Lumia' (1919) and 'Clavilux' light organs to Jean Tinguely 's self-destructing sculpture Homage to New York (1960) can be seen as progenitors of new media art. Steve Dixon in his book Digital Performance: New Technologies in Theatre, Dance and Performance Art argues that

SECTION 20

#1732848160970

1144-410: The art system, who not only have different training and technocultures, but have different artistic production. This should be taken into account in examining the several themes addressed by new media art. Non-linearity can be seen as an important topic to new media art by artists developing interactive, generative, collaborative, immersive artworks like Jeffrey Shaw or Maurice Benayoun who explored

1196-406: The artistic productions of the Stadtwerkstatt in a concentrated form and also artists working on the respective theme. STWST48 is co-curated by the artist Shu Lea Cheang , among others, and its cooperation partner is Ars Electronica . The Stadtwerkstatt was founded in a building at Friedhofstraße 6 and since 1990 has been located in the neighboring building at Kirchengasse 4, almost directly on

1248-468: The broadcast began with Bible texts and a host dressed as a priest. This way, it was possible to reach an audience that would probably not have followed a program created by "STWST-TV" on its own. A total of seven broadcasts were aired, covering a range of topics from religious fanaticism, youth mania, U.S. invasionism, clichés about Austria, the U.S. image of Europe, punk as a concept of art, as well as an entire broadcast without sound. Some other projects of

1300-544: The building at Friedhofstraße 6. In 1983, Hermann Nitsch read from his "Orgien-Mysterien-Theater". In 1998 Black Market International was in Linz and presented performance and action art from November 16 to 20. In addition to lectures and art events, the Stadtwerkstatt is known to a broad public primarily because of regular concerts by alternative - local and international - bands ( rock , punk , electropop , etc.) and DJs ( electronic music such as drum and bass and techno , hip-hop , reggae , etc.). In this context,

1352-461: The building, as well as Radio FRO, moved temporarily until the reopening in May 2002. In 2006, the Stadtwerkstatt's events drew about 19,000 visitors. On a quarterly basis, the Stadtwerkstatt publishes the newspaper Versorgerin , to which one can subscribe free of charge. In 2015, another cooperation with the newspaper die Referentin was started. In 2010, an annual artists-in-residence program started on

1404-416: The components of the piece. In New Media programs, students are able to get acquainted with the newest forms of creation and communication. New Media students learn to identify what is or isn't "new" about certain technologies. Science and the market will always present new tools and platforms for artists and designers. Students learn how to sort through new emerging technological platforms and place them in

1456-921: The concept of "distributed authorship" in his worldwide telematic project La Plissure du Texte for Frank Popper 's "Electra" at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris . The development of computer graphics at the end of the 1980s and real time technologies in the 1990s combined with the spreading of the Web and the Internet favored the emergence of new and various forms of interactive art by Ken Feingold , Lynn Hershman Leeson , David Rokeby , Ken Rinaldo , Perry Hoberman , Tamas Waliczky ; telematic art by Roy Ascott , Paul Sermon , Michael Bielický ; Internet art by Vuk Ćosić , Jodi ; virtual and immersive art by Jeffrey Shaw , Maurice Benayoun , Monika Fleischmann , and large scale urban installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer . In Geneva,

1508-414: The conventional linear narrative coming from novels, theater plays and movies. Non-linear art usually requires audience participation or at least, the fact that the "visitor" is taken into consideration by the representation, altering the displayed content. The participatory aspect of new media art, which for some artists has become integral, emerged from Allan Kaprow 's Happenings and became with Internet,

1560-531: The design of the facade of the old Stadtwerkstatt building in 1983, or the facade painting "Glowing vehicle" in 1986, were also part of the artistic activities of the Stadtwerkstatt. In 1995 the book for the exhibition of the same name "Stadtwerkstatt in Arbeit 1979-1995" was presented in the Landesgalerie. The artistic examination took place and takes place in all genres above all however in the social plastic and in

1612-414: The dichotomy of beauty and the grotesque in the natural world and their relation to the female experience. The large-scale 360-degree installation featured breast-shaped projectors and circular pink pillows that invited viewers to relax and immerse themselves in the vibrant colors, psychedelic music, and partake in meditation and yoga. American filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson explores in her films

Stadtwerkstatt - Misplaced Pages Continue

1664-468: The early twentieth century avant-garde art movement Futurism was the birthplace of the merging of technology and performance art. Some early examples of performance artists who experimented with then state-of-the-art lighting, film, and projection include dancers Loïe Fuller and Valentine de Saint-Point . Cartoonist Winsor McCay performed in sync with an animated Gertie the Dinosaur on tour in 1914. By

1716-477: The first musicians to perform with a synthesizer. The twenty-first century has seen a resurgence of Afrofuturism aesthetics and themes with artists and cooperation's like Jessi Jumanji and Black Quantum Futurism and art educational centers like Black Space in Durham, North Carolina. Japanese artist Mariko Mori 's multimedia installation piece Wave UFO (1999–2003) sought to examine the science and perceptions behind

1768-499: The interactive nature of the media. New media art includes "explorations of code and user interface; interrogations of archives, databases, and networks; production via automated scraping, filtering, cloning, and recombinatory techniques; applications of user-generated content (UGC) layers; crowdsourcing ideas on social- media platforms; narrowcasting digital selves on "free" websites that claim copyright; and provocative performances that implicate audiences as participants". Afrofuturism

1820-502: The literary works of Jorge Luis Borges , Italo Calvino , and Julio Cortázar . In the book New Media Art , Mark Tribe and Reena Jana named several themes that contemporary new media art addresses, including computer art , collaboration , identity , appropriation , open sourcing , telepresence , surveillance, corporate parody, as well as intervention and hacktivism . In the book Postdigitale , Maurizio Bolognini suggested that new media artists have one common denominator, which

1872-417: The mid-90s, the issue of storing works in digital form became a concern. Digital art such as moving images, multimedia, interactive programs, and computer-generated art has different properties than physical artwork such as oil paintings and sculptures. Unlike analog technologies, a digital file can be recopied onto a new medium without any deterioration of content. One of the problems with preserving digital art

1924-564: The original methods of the art world when it comes to documentation, its approach to collection and preservation. Technology continues to advance, and the nature and structure of art organizations and institutions will remain in jeopardy. The traditional roles of curators and artist are continually changing, and a shift to new collaborative models of production and presentation is needed. see also Conservation and restoration of new media art New media art encompasses various mediums all which require their own preservation approaches.  Due to

1976-537: The participants in the exhibition were then actually named honorary citizens of the city of Cochabamba. All this innovative and creative media work did not go unappreciated, as in 1993 and 1994 there were several awards: From the beginning, the Stadtwerkstatt organized numerous events of various kinds. There were exhibitions , plays , lectures and, of course, numerous concerts . In 1982, for example, Einstürzende Neubauten , Abwärts and also Konstantin Wecker played in

2028-512: The premises of the Stadtwerkstatt can often be rented by local organizers (mostly DJ collectives). In close cooperation with the Stadtwerkstatt, the organizers work on a smooth realization of the respective event. For example, in February 2006 a two-day event of experimental electronic music took place, the "Interferenz 06 Extreme Music Meeting" , which was organized by "Hirntrust Grind Media" and "Artonal" . In addition to local bands, whose playing

2080-679: The preservation and documentation of the fragile media arts heritage (see DOCAM – Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage ). Methods of preservation exist, including the translation of a work from an obsolete medium into a related new medium, the digital archiving of media (see the Rhizome ArtBase , which holds over 2000 works, and the Internet Archive ), and the use of emulators to preserve work dependent on obsolete software or operating system environments. Around

2132-411: The range of the new media . This led to the development of the art and culture server servus.at in 1996 and the non-commercial community radio station Radio FRO in 1998. Both initiatives are independent associations and work in the house of the Stadtwerkstatt. Video productions found their way into various film events and since the founding of "STWST-TV", which was rarely actually seen on television,

Stadtwerkstatt - Misplaced Pages Continue

2184-400: The study of consciousness and neuroscience. Exploring the ways that these fields undertake research in a materially reductionist manner. Mori's work emphasized the need for these fields to become more holistic and incorporate incites and understanding of the world from philosophy and the humanities. Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist 's (2008) immersive video installation Pour Your Body Out explores

2236-419: The term as an approach to looking at varying forms of digital projects where the content relays on the user's experience. This is a key concept since people acquired the notion that they were conditioned to view everything in a linear and clear-cut fashion. Now, art is stepping out of that form and allowing for people to build their own experiences with the piece. Non-linearity describes a project that escape from

2288-498: The themes of identity, technology and the erasure of women's roles and contributions to technology. Her (1999) film Conceiving Ada depicts a computer scientist and new media artist named Emmy as she attempts and succeeds at creating a way to communicate through cyberspace with Ada Lovelace , an Englishwoman who created the first computer program in the 1840s via a form of artificial intelligence. With its roots in outsider art, New Media has been an ideal medium for an artist to explore

2340-438: The thereby created artwork, which differentiates itself from that deriving from conventional visual arts such as architecture, painting or sculpture. New Media art has origins in the worlds of science, art, and performance. Some common themes found in new media art include databases, political and social activism, Afrofuturism, feminism, and identity, a ubiquitous theme found throughout is the incorporation of new technology into

2392-419: The topics of identity and representation. In Canada, Indigenous multidisciplinary artists like Cheryl L'Hirondelle and Kent Monkman have incorporated themes about gender, identity, activism, and colonization in their work. Monkman, a Cree artist, performs and appears as their alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in film, photography, painting, installation, and performance art. Monkman describes Miss Chief as

2444-489: The vast technical aspects involved no established digital preservation guidelines fully encompass the spectrum of new media art. New media art falls under the category of "complex digital object" in the Digital Curation Centre's digital curation lifecycle model which involves specialized or totally unique preservation techniques.  Complex digital objects preservation has an emphasis on the inherent connection of

2496-528: The work. The emphasis on medium is a defining feature of much contemporary art and many art schools and major universities now offer majors in "New Genres" or "New Media" and a growing number of graduate programs have emerged internationally. New media art may involve degrees of interaction between artwork and observer or between the artist and the public, as is the case in performance art . Several theorists and curators have noted that such forms of interaction do not distinguish new media art but rather serve as

2548-506: Was Donna Cox , she collaborated with mathematician George Francis and computer scientist Ray Idaszak on the project Venus in Time which depicted mathematical data as 3D digital sculptures named for their similarities to paleolithic Venus statues . In 1982 artist Ellen Sandor and her team called (art)n Laboratory created the medium called PHSCologram , which stands for photography, holography, sculpture, and computer graphics. Her visualization of

2600-556: Was accompanied and edited by the Japanese Artist KK Null , and DJs from the regional collectives "Chemotaxis" and "Morphed" , other experimental musicians and DJs from Germany, Australia, USA, Holland and Belgium ( Sickboy ) performed. Urfahr-Umgebung District Bezirk Urfahr-Umgebung ( German pronunciation: [bəˈtsɪʁk ˌuːɐ̯faːɐ̯ʔʊmˈɡeːbʊŋ] ) is a district of the state of Upper Austria in Austria . It

2652-466: Was artist Jonty Hurwitz who created the first known anamorphosis sculpture using this technique. As the technologies used to deliver works of new media art such as film , tapes , web browsers , software and operating systems become obsolete, New Media art faces serious issues around the challenge to preserve artwork beyond the time of its contemporary production. Currently, research projects into New media art preservation are underway to improve

SECTION 50

#1732848160970

2704-425: Was threatened in 1983, the association launched the "Sgraffito Alchemia" campaign, in which the entire building facade was designed. Nevertheless, the building was demolished in 1990 in favor of a dormitory, and the association moved to the much smaller building at Kirchengasse 4, which is owned by the municipality of Linz. From March 2001, the building was fundamentally redesigned and renovated. The offices located in

#969030