Week 6: post Fall Break
Last Look at Developments Toward a New Media Art
Before we move into the 1980s-90s with the 'Digital Revolution' etc, we will linger for a moment longer on the 1970s and the precursors to digital art and new media.
- To begin, we will consider the chapter in Stephen Wilson's Information Arts on Research-based art.
- We will look at several essays by Robert Smithson in conjunction with an article in the September ARTFORUM by Caroline A. Jones on the Systems Esthetics of Jack Burnham.
- We will read an essay by David Salle on the work of Jack Goldstein.
- We will read a recently published essay by the video artist and thinker Tom Sherman.
READINGS: PDFS // LINKS:
Wilson, Stephen. "Information-Arts-Elaboration on the Approach of Art as Research," Information Arts (2002) Download Stephen-Wilson-Information-Arts-Elaboration on the Approach of Art as Research
Smithson, Robert. >Fragments of a Conversation, edited by William C.Lipke. February 1969
___________, >Entropy Made Visible, interview with Alison Sky On Site # 4, (1973)
___________, >A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites, 1968
___________, >Cultural Confinement, Artforum, 1972
Jones, Caroline A. (2012) "System Symptoms; On Jack Burnham's System Esthetics (1968)" ARTFORUM September 2012 Issue LINK
Above: Jack Goldstein.
Salle, David (1978). Jack Goldstein: Distance Equals Control. Hallwalls, exhibition catalogue essay.
Download Jack-Goldstein_Distance Equals Control 1978
Sherman, Tom. (2012) Video is a Perceptual Prosthetic.
Download Tom Sherman essay >
Some info: The Centre for Art Tapes just launched a new critical text on video, the medium and art form, by Tom Sherman. Video is a Perceptual Prosthetic lays out a scientific sense of video as it relates to human perception, exploring a medium that has the ability to literally provide us with a replay of our experiences as we are living them. The artist begins with an analysis of perception and its historical relevance to the evolution of video technology from analogue tape to HDV through to cybernetic technology. Sherman also analyzes the impact of video technology on other media technologies, in particular tracing the devolution of television, a topic explored throughout his writing over the years, such as his Video 2005: Three texts on video.
Tom Sherman is an artist and writer. His interdisciplinary art has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale. He received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010. Sherman is a professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University in New York.
The catalogue is available free of charge, and can be downloaded from the CFAT website here:
http://centreforarttapes.ca/downloads/tom_sherman--video_is_a_perceptual_prosthetic.pdf
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