Notes
Artists backing off from high tech (woody allen, peter campus)
Artists doing tech visualization for commercial apps (connection machine)
Cheap tech in expensive environment (videodrome trailer made on C64)
Popularity clusters at high cost (blockbuster) and low cost (blair witch)
Is expensive flash a corporate/western/progress conspiracy? (Lev M’s point about Flash and E Europe)
New media:
Emulate past media (cinema wrt theater, tv wrt radio)
Critique past media (video art wrt tv, game art wrt video games)
Show off its unique features (3D movies)
Artists exploring new media turned from positive (1950-60s) to negative (1970-80s)
“techno fetishism” / “technocentrism” /post-modernism
examples exist of both technocentric and critical
(where does spiritualism fit in?)
In-your-face personal work
Too much = what about beauty or criticism of world?
Too little = lacking voice
Leads
--- peter campus works
--- visualization of internet