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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: DEEPSPEED media: Science fiction and fact by Jonathon Minard et al.

URL: http://www.deepspeedmedia.com/

Description: "Jonathan Minard's films, both documentary and science fiction, examine our dreams of the near future, focusing a lens on the relationship between people and technology. How does human nature and the imagination move with the currents of change in our world?" -- from the website, 2/4/2015

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Subject:   Minard, Jonathon Digital art Digital filmmaking Science fiction in art,  Technology in art ,  Multimedia art

Title: Tantalum Memorial

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LlN20Aj--0

Description: "Tantalum Memorial" is a series of telephony-based memorials by the artists group Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, to the people who have died as a result of the "coltan wars" in the Congo. The installation is constructed out of electromagnetic Strowger switches -- the basis of the first automatic telephone exchange invented in 1888. The movements and sounds of the switches are triggered by the phone calls of London's Congolese community as they participate in "Telephone Trottoire" -- a concurrent project also built by the artists in collaboration with the Congolese radio program "Nostalgie Ya Mboka". - from website, 2014 May 02

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Subject:   Mines and mineral resources -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997- Coltan (columbite–tantalite) Mines and mineral resources -- Political aspects Tantalum Digital art,  Technology in art ,  Interactive art Installations (Art) Harwood, Graham, 1960- Wright, Richard, 1963- Yokokoji, Matsuko, 1960-

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: FACULTI - Mr. Graham Harwood - Coal Fired Computers

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

Description: "In 2010, Harwood and Yokokoji, in conjunction with Demars, exhibited their Coal Fired Computers (300,000,000 Computers - 318,000 Black Lungs ) at the AV Festival 10 - Discovery Museum, Newcastle" - from website, 2014 May 02 Harwood discusses the piece Coal Fired Computers

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Subject:   Coal miners -- Diseases Coal Strike (Great Britain : 1984-1985) Digital art Installations (Art) Multimedia art,  Technology in art ,  Interactive art Harwood, Graham, 1960- Demars, Jean Yokokoji, Matsuko YoHa

Title: Visceral: The Living Art Experiment

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzoNE7xESAs

Description: SymbioticA is a life sciences artistic laboratory based at the University of Western Australia Highlights of the February 2011 exhibition "Visceral: The Living Art Experiment" from the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition concerned the previous decade of work by SymbioticA. "VISCERAL incorporates ten years of SymbioticA's challenging work at the frontier between fine art and biotechnology and forms a series of provocations and puzzles around the nature of the living and non-living. Curated by Oron Catts and Dr. Ionat Zurr, the works are occasionally playful, frequently uncanny and may even appear to be sentient." -- from the YouTube video page, 3/16/2015

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Subject:   SymbioticA (Perth (W.A.)) Art and science Digital art,  Technology in art ,  Multimedia installations (Art) Interactive art

Title: László Moholy-Nagy film

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNt39WJQqjg

Description: "This is a section of a short film by Lazlo Moholy Nagy from the 1930's. Moholy Nagy taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and then in Dessau by Walter Gropius." -- translated from the website, 2/12/2015

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Subject:   Digital art Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946,  Technology in art ,  Films

Title: Ping body

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYYJZG0f68

Description: "The Australian performance artist Stelarc employs 'pinging' as a control mechanism for his body. His body movements are not caused by his own movements but by an external data system" - from video

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Subject:   Digital art Interactive art Performance art,  Technology in art

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