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Digital Art Web Archive

Collected by: Cornell University Library

Archived since: Feb, 2014

Description:

Many artists and works represented online are indispensable to the history of digital media art; however, web sites are ephemeral and artworks posted on websites and its documentation frequently disappear. The insecurity of access to these materials presents serious obstacles to teaching courses on the history of digital media art. To facilitate future scholarship and classroom teaching, Cornell University Library is preserving and making accessible selected websites identified as important in understanding the history of digital media art. The items in this collection are intended for use in the teaching of Digital Media Art at Cornell University.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Computers & Technology Digital art Interactive art New media art

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Title: Opus 147, Multidimensional

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xHuOKxGyvg

Description: "Watch a clip from the video of Thomas Wilfred's recorded Lumia Composition Opus 147 'Multidimensional" (1957). Though best seen in person, this high definition excerpt offers a glimpse into Wilfred's extraordinary composition of light, color, and form that transforms slowly overtime, exhibiting a delicate array of ephemeral beauty." -- from the youtube page for the video, 2/11/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Projective art,  Light art ,  Wilfred, Thomas, 1889-1968

Title: Varetra

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOfaQME1KPw

Description: "Demonstration of Varetra Nicolas De Schöffer. Workshop with Mrs. Barraux and testing of renaud ruhlmann." -- translated from the website, 2/12/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Schöffer, Nicolas, 1912-1992 Projection art Multimedia art,  Light art

Title: 1930 Clavilux made by Thomas Wilfred, in operation

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icGdtUQy5qQ

Description: "... Thomas Wilfred['s] Clavilux in operation. This was the first day it has operated in nearly 50 years.... There were 14 of these small units built and only seven are known to exist. This one has just gone through a mechanical and cosmetic preservation." - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Digital art Wilfred, Thomas, 1889-1968 Projection art,  Light art

Title: Lumino Variations

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHcZl4yL7g

Description: Demonstration of the work "Lumino," by Nicolas Schöffer.

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Subject:   Digital art Schöffer, Nicolas, 1912-1992 Projection art,  Light art ,  Installations (Art) Sound installations (Art) Multimedia installations (Art)

Title: Opus 161

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqb88gdCM4Q

Description: "Wilfred gave his first performances on this new instrument in New York in 1922 and toured with the Clavilux in US and Europe often drawing audiences in the thousands during the 1920s. In the 1930s, he shifted his focus from performance to composition for his recently invented Lumia box, an automated device that looks similar to a television but functions like a player-piano. The Lumias slowly morphing light patterns unfolded for weeks without repeating. This shift from performance to exhibition, recontextualized Wilfreds work from the domain of music to the domain of art. Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon, 2009)." -- from the website, 2/13/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Wilfred, Thomas, 1889-1968,  Light art ,  Projection art Performance art

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