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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: Ken Rinaldo

URL: http://art.osu.edu/people/rinaldo.2/

Description: The Ohio State University faculty page for media artist Ken Rinaldo "Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology...[,] interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging." - http://www.kenrinaldo.com/frame_bio.html, accessed 2014 May 02

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Subject:   Rinaldo, Ken Digital art Interactive art Multimedia installations (Art),  Robotics

Title: Audiovisual Academy : Robotic Art Chronology, p.4: 1990-2000s

URL: http://audiovisualacademy.com/blog/ja/2012/08/30/robotic-art-chronology-p-4-1990-2000s-jp/

Description: Post concerning late-20th and early 21st century Robotic Art on the Audiovisual Academy blog; "Audiovisual Academy is a comprehensive educational program for new media and audiovisual studies." - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Digital art,  Robotics ,  Installations (Art) Performance art Electronic art

Title: Bill Seaman / Recombinant Poetics

URL: http://billseaman.com/

Description: Website devoted to the work of Bill Seaman. "Bill Seaman is Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies... [and] a member of the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences.... His research in part focuses on Neosentience..., a potentially new branch of scientific and poetic inquiry related to artificial intelligence. " - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Installations (Art) Performance art Virtual reality in art Computer art Computer programming Video installations (Art)

Title: Bill Vorn - Robotic Art

URL: http://billvorn.concordia.ca/

Description: Website concerning the work of Bill Vorn. "Based in Montreal, Bill Vorn is active in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation and performance projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research and creation on Artificial Life and Agent Technologies through artistic work based on the Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors." - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Installations (Art) Performance art Interactive art

Title: Face Music by Ken Rinaldo

URL: http://facemusic.us/

Description: "Fusiform Polyphony is a series of 6 interactive robotic sculptures that compose their own music with input from participant facial images. Micro video cameras mounted on the ends of these robots, move toward people’s body heat and faces while capturing human snapshots. These images are digitally processed, pixelated and turned into a constantly evolving generative soundscape, where facial features and interaction are turned into sound melody, tone and rhythm." -- from the website, 2/3/2015

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Subject:   Rinaldo, Ken Interactive art Installations (Art),  Robotics ,  Digital art Computer programming Electronic music Sound installations (Art)

Title: futurefemmes

URL: http://futurefemmes.tumblr.com/

Description: "A blog showcasing the work of women in digital culture." -- from the website, 2/3/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Computer games -- design Women artists,  Robotics ,  Kinetic sculpture Interactive art Installations (Art) Performance art Cyberfeminism

Title: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

URL: http://lozano-hemmer.com/

Description: Website devoted to the work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Lozano-Hemmer, an "electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are 'antimonuments for alien agency'." - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael,  Robotics ,  Digital art Interactive art Electronic art Installations (Art) Performance art

Title: Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors

URL: http://newmediaartist.org/

Description: "Ken Rinaldo has provided this text as a gift to artists, inventors and experimenters." -- from the website, 2/4/2015

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Subject:   Rinaldo, Ken Interactive art,  Robotics ,  Electronic art Installations (Art) Kinetic sculpture

Title: Pask Present

URL: http://paskpresent.com/

Description: Documentation of the March 26 - April 4 2008 exhibition on the work of Gordon Pask.

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Subject:   Pask, Gordon Cybernetics Digital art,  Robotics ,  Multimedia art Electronic art

Title: Simon Penny

URL: http://simonpenny.net/

Description: "Simon Penny is an Australian practitioner in the fields of Digital Cultural Practices, Embodied Interaction and Interactive Art. His practice has included artistic practice, technical research, theoretical writing, pedagogy and institution building. Over the last twenty-five years, he has made interactive and robotic installations which address critical issues arising at the intersection of culture and technology, informed by traditions of practice in the arts including sculpture, video-art, installation and performance; and by theoretical research in enactive and embodied cognition, ethology, neurology, phenomenology, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, robotics, critical theory, cultural and media studies. Informed by these sources, he designs and builds artworks utilising custom sensor and effector technologies." - from website, 2014 April 24

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Subject:   Penny, Simon Digital art Interactive art,  Robotics ,  Installations (Art) Electronic art Kinetic sculpture Sound installations (Art) Video installations (Art)

Title: Mars Rover Research

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/ARCHIVE/old-projects/mars-rovers/

Description: Robotics development for planetary exploration from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Mars (Planet) Space robotics Digital art

Title: The Ants: A Community of Microrobots

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/

Description: "The Ants are a community of cubic-inch microrobots at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. There are two main goals for this project. The first is to push the limits of microrobotics by integrating many sensors and actuators into a small package. The second is to form a structured robotic community from the interactions of many simple individuals. The inspiration behind this idea comes from nature -- the ant colony." - from website, 2014 May 21

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Microrobots Artificial intelligence Biomimicry Digital art

Title: Boadicea : a small, pneumatic walking robot

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/boadicea/

Description: Boadicea's "mechanics are modeled after a cockroach, Blaberus Discoidalis. Like real insects, Boadicea's front, middle, and rear legs are all different, and the legs have large, overlapping workspaces. Each leg uses a pantograph mechanism to produce Cartesian foot motions." - from website, 2014 May 21

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Biomimicry Digital art Artificial intelligence

Title: Retired Robots - Genghis

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/genghis/

Description: Site devoted to the Genghis, a robot developed by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and transferred to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Artificial intelligence Biomimicry

Title: Retired Robots : Hannibal and Attila

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/hannibal/

Description: "Attila and Hannibal were built in the Mobot Lab in the early 1990s. They are the first robots constructed by our lab to serve as experimental platforms for autonomous planetary exploration. The robots are identical, differing only in color (Hannibal is red, Attila is gold). As can be seen in the pictures below, each is a small, six legged robot--the "progeny" of Genghis, our lab's first legged robot." - from website, 2014 May 21

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Space robotics Digital art Artificial intelligence

Title: Humanoid Robotics Group

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/

Description: Information concerning the work conducted by the Humanoid Robotics Group of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Biomimicry Artificial intelligence

Title: Retired Robots

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/retired-robots/

Description: Site devoted to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Retired Robots

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Artificial intelligence

Title: Mobot Group

URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/mobile-robots/

Description: "The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory performs a broad range of research on mobile robots and autonomous systems. Efforts range from basic research on topics such as vision or natural language to the development of key supporting technologies, such as low cost hardware and powerful software development environments." - from website, 2014 May 21

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Mobile robots Digital art Artificial intelligence

Title: Eduardo Kac, KAC

URL: http://www.ekac.org/

Description: "Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac... emerged in the early '90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world." - from website, 2014.04.24

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Subject:   Kac, Eduardo Digital art,  Robotics ,  Biology in art Interactive art Multimedia installations (Art) Biomimicry Performance art Visual poetry

Title: Flong - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators

URL: http://www.flong.com/

Description: "This is the web site of Golan Levin, an artist and educator living in Pittsburgh. I teach at Carnegie Mellon University, where I also direct the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, an interdisciplinary arts-research center." -- from the website, 2/4/2015

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Subject:   Levin, Golan Digital art Interactive art Multimedia installations (Art) Projection art Electronic art Computer art Computer programming,  Robotics

Title: Futurefarmers

URL: http://www.futurefarmers.com/

Description: Started in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers is a design studio. "While we collaborate with scientists and are interested in scientific inquiry, we want to ask questions more openly. Through participatory projects, we create spaces and experiences where the logic of a situation disappears... We use various media to create work that has the potential to destabilize logics of "certainty". We deconstruct systems such as food policies, public transportation and rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics." - from website, 2014 April 29

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Subject:   Futurefarmers (Firm) Technology -- Social aspects Digital art Performance art Interactive art Installations (Art),  Robotics ,  Sculpture

Title: Ken Rinaldo : Interactive installation intersecting organic and technological cultures, Emergent Systems

URL: http://www.kenrinaldo.com/

Description: "Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology...[,] interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging." - http://www.kenrinaldo.com/frame_bio.html, accessed 2014 May 02

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Subject:   Rinaldo, Ken Biology in art,  Robotics ,  Digital art Multimedia installations (Art) Installations (Art)

Title: The NorMill

URL: http://www.normill.ca/

Description: "Here in the Normill, I [Norman T. White] design and construct appliances which, unlike toasters, are clearly pointless and useless. Hopefully they are every bit as efficient, loaded down as they are with new technology." "Norman White is a Texas-born Canadian New Media artist and pioneer of using electronics and robotics in art." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_White (accessed 2014.04.24)

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Subject:   White, Norman, 1938-,  Robotics ,  Digital art Multimedia art Electronic art Computer programming Installations (Art)

Title: Feral Robotic Dogs

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/

Description: Feral Robotic Dogs is a project with the mission to "build a networked (knowledge) community interested in the transformation of robotic dogs from their intended entertainment use to activists instruments for exploring (and contesting) local material conditions." - from website, 2014 April 29

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art

URL: http://www.paparazzibot.com/

Description: " The Paparazzi Bots are a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple cameras, sensors and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using infrared sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots." -- from the website, 2/9/2015

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Subject:   Rinaldo, Ken Digital art,  Robotics ,  Digital photography Internet -- Social aspects

Title: The Senster, Cybernetic sculptor - Edward Ihnatowicz - The Senster

URL: http://www.senster.com/

Description: "Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the late 1960's and early 1970's. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant, Philips, for their permanent showplace, the Evoluon, in Eindhoven in 1970. The sculpture used sound and movement sensors to react to the behaviour of the visitors. It was one of the first computer controlled interactive robotic works of art." - from website, 2014 April 29

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Subject:   Ihnatowicz, Edward Cybernetics Digital art,  Robotics ,  Multimedia art Electronic art

Title: A Tribute to John Cage, Robot K-456 in Berlin

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QIm7EgNlM

Description: Nam June Paik's Robot K-456 on the street in Berlin.

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Subject:   Digital art Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006 Cage, John,  Robotics ,  Multimedia art Public art Interactive art Technology in art

Title: Tumbling Man

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3xRbnyojo

Description: "The 'Tumbling Man' is a humanoid pneumatic robot that not only tumbles, but with the aid and cooperation of two participants can attain contorted poses,sit up, and play his body as a percussion instrument." - from website, 2014 February 23

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Subject:   Digital art Sayre, Ric McMurtrie, Chico,  Robotics ,  Interactive art Technology in art

Title: Psycho Cyber

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD7fhxlw9xE

Description: "The Documentary 'Stelarc Psycho Cyber' was made in the year 1996 and directed and produced by Mic Gruchy.It is a comprehensive one hour documentary of the 30 year body of work of Australian electronic media and performance artist Stelarc." -- from the website, 2/12/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Performance art Cybernetics Multimedia art Electronic art,  Robotics ,  Stelarc, 1946-

Title: Chronos 5

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh5zmrupixg

Description: Video documentation of Nicolas Schöffer's piece: Chronos 5

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Subject:   Digital art,  Robotics ,  Installations (Art) Kinetic sculptures Computer programming Schöffer, Nicolas, 1912-1992

Title: The Helpless Robot

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyAHOxY7jU

Description: Video documentation of Norman White's "The Helpless Robot" captured during the 1995 Net@Works exhibition of Canadian New Media Art at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City. - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Digital art White, Norman, 1938-,  Robotics ,  Interactive art

Title: A Calculated Forecast of Ultimate Doom : sickening episodes of widespread devastation accompanied by sensations of pleasurable excitement

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM

Description: Documentation of a robotics Show staged at Pier 70, San Francisco on May 28, 1994

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Subject:   Robotics ,  Digital art Interactive art Multimedia art

Title: Simon Penny Interview

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdUiE9vYx4

Description: Interview with Simon Penny concerning his robotic sculpture Petit Mal

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Subject:   Digital art Hauser, Jens Penny, Simon Interactive art,  Robotics ,  Sculpture Computer programming

Title: L'Art et L'Abstrait, Nicolas Schoffer - Cyspe

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJD27tJLoaQ

Description: "D'abord peintre, puis sculpteur, urbaniste, architecte, théoricien de l'art, Nicolas Schöffer a été un des artistes les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXème siècle. Pionnier de l'art cybernétique, artiste non commercial, on le connaît moins que d'autres, car, consacré à la recherche fondamentale en art, il crée surtout à l'échelle de la ville, dans laquelle il veut redonner aux hommes de notre époque le plaisir de vivre à l'abri de toutes sortes de pollutions visuelles autant qu'auditives." -- from the website, 2/12/2015 "Originally a painter and sculptor, urban planner, architect, art theorist, Nicolas Schöffer was one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Pioneer of cybernetic art, not a commercial artist, is known less than others, as devoted to basic research in art, he created especially across the city in which he wants to give back to the people of our then the pleasure to live free from all kinds of visual and auditory pollution as much." --translated from the website, 2/12/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Schöffer, Nicolas, 1912-1992 Cybernetics,  Robotics ,  Multimedia art Interactive art

Title: Grey Walter's tortoises

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

Description: Documentary clip concerning Dr. Grey Walter, "... a neurologist, [and] robotics pioneer... he built reactive, autonomous robots that could wander about and avoid obstacles. Each robot had two simulated neurons, sufficient for them to display complex behavior. Significantly, Walter's tortoises represent the first real world demonstration of artificial life." - from website, 2014 April 18

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Subject:   Digital art Walter, Dr. Grey,  Robotics ,  Cybernetics

Title: ROSA BOSOM at Kinetica Art Fair

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTMNiYV5yIE

Description: "... outtake from the film about the almost unbelievable life of Bruce Lacey, made by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams, showing Bruce and his robot ROSA BOSOM at the Kinetica Art Fair in 2010." - from website, 2014 April 21

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Subject:   Digital art Lacey, Bruce,  Robotics ,  Interactive art Computer programming Multimedia art

Title: Meat, Metal, Code

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBMk72mwsg

Description: Lecture by Stelarc "Famed for pushing the boundaries of performance art and biotechnology, Stelarc previews startling new scientific developments set to transform our relationships to our bodies and our selves." -- from the website, 2/13/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Stelarc, 1946- Institute of Art and Ideas Human biology Computer animation,  Robotics ,  Biotechnology Nanotechnology

Title: TeleGarden

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQE-qJ_aYPw&lr=1

Description: "The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm." - from website, 2014 February 21

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Subject:   Digital art Goldberg, Ken Interactive art Biology in art,  Robotics ,  Installations (Art)

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