20071108

New media and the modernist concept of progress

20071108
_nahyun cho

Today's lecture was hard to me. I completely understood only 'what are the pictorialists'.

Modernist are concerne about 'meaning' more than 'way'.(=>im-mediacy) And avant garde is concerne 'way' and 'meaning'.(=> hyper-mediacy) And I think new media includes all.

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I thought about 'am I conputer scientist or artist?'. ahaaaa, I'm student.


# NOTE


Deferred future of new media

  • because of technological underdevelopment?
  • be used and nuderstanding according to older, existing practices and ideas

The veiw of modernist aesthetic

  • mediun has its own kind of essence
  • medium has to be genuinely new from the past and old media

experimentalism

imperialist

Pictorialists














left : Asahachi Kono, Untitled (Tree and Hills), late 1920s, gelatin silver print, 7 3/8”x 11 7/8”. Dennis Reed Collection
right : Margrethe Mather, Florence Deshon, 1921, bromide print, 9 1/2”x 7 1/2”. Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles

- Do media proceed by a process of ruptures or decisive breaks with the past?

- Can a medium transcend its historical contexts to deliver an 'entirely new language'?

- Do media have irreducible and unique essences?


** Gene Youngblood

  • The full aesthetic potential of this medium will be realised only when computer artists come to the instrument from art rather than computer science
  • be rescued from the tyranny of perceptual imperialists

** Steve Holzmann

  • existing uses of new media fail to 'exploit those special qualities

** Clement Greenberg

** Raymond Willams

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