New media art

Newskool ASCII Screenshot with the words “Closed Society II”
Eduardo Kac's installation "Genesis" Ars Electronica 1999
10.000 moving cities, Marc Lee, 2013, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea

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 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 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.[1]

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 a common ground that has parallels in other strands of contemporary art practice.[2] 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.[3] Many cultural centers and museums have been established to cater to the advanced needs of new media art.

  1. ^ Shanken, Edward A. (2005). "Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship and the Creation and Interpretation of Hybrid Forms". Leonardo. 38 (5). MIT Press - Journals: 415–418. doi:10.1162/leon.2005.38.5.415. ISSN 0024-094X. S2CID 55958365.
  2. ^ "Contemporary Art and New Media: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?". 15 February 2011.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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