Notes
Is there a problem simply exploring the artistic potential of a new technology (much of early art/tech work versus “techno fetishism”)
Hardware-based art making has a physicality to craft that software art does not (Raymond Scott building Electronium)
Darwinian nature of new art (what happened to half the artists in early video art shows?)
Does successful public art compromise as art by being so accessible (Christian Moller’s Audio Grove)?
Hacking/Satirizing/Criticizing a new medium versus using it for one’s own (non-mainstream) art
- Photography and Cinema spawned “indy” movements
- Indy video (art) went through a brief TV hacking period
- Most all video game art is hacking/commentary on mainstream video games
- Why is there no “United Artists” for video games?
(UA took 20 years after the birth of cinema)
- Machinima is indy
Leads
--- Artist-made video synthesizers: Paik-Abe, Rutt-Etra, Sandin (all 1970s)
--- works by Andy Goldsworthy