Mediaarts

Media Arts Timeline

  • Film and Radio

    Film and Radio
    Film and radio became very popular. Radios became a popular feature in American homes of the 1920s, after being introduced during World War I.Magazines and newspapers marketers did not have to rely on active audience participation: advertisers could target anyone within the radio's scope. A wider audience, on the other hand, meant advertisers had to be more discreet and vigilant not to offend anyone.
  • Transmitting and Receiving Device

    Transmitting and Receiving Device
    Russian-American inventor Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin (1889 – 1982) develops a system of transmitting and receiving information with cathode ray tube.
  • First Television Presentation

    First Television Presentation
    First television demonstration by John Logie Baird. John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gave the first public demonstration of a true TV device in London on January 26, 1926, sparking a media and entertainment revolution.
  • Light-Space-Modulator

    Light-Space-Modulator
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy creates the Light-Space-Modulator.Light Prop for an Electric Stage, one of the earliest electrically powered kinetic sculptures, holds a central place in the history of modern sculpture. Representing the culmination of exploration by Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus, it integrates his interest in technology, new materials and, above all, light.
  • Computer Using Film Tape

    Computer Using Film Tape
    The Z1 was a mechanical computer designed between 1936 and 1937 by Konrad Zuse and produced between 1936 and 1938 by him. The Z1 was the world's first freely programmable machine to use Boolean logic and binary floating-point numbers, but it was in operation unreliable. It was completed in 1938 and funded entirely by private funds. This machine, along with all construction plans, was destroyed in the Berlin bombardment in December 1943, during World War II.
  • First Computer to solve Mathematical Problems

    First Computer to solve Mathematical Problems
    Alan Turing publishes a description of a computer that can solve mathematical problems. Turing also engaged in philosophical debates about whether computers should think like a human brain. He has invented a method for answering the question. He reasoned that if a machine was behaving, responding, and communicating like a human being, then it would be feeling.
  • Television in Households

    Television in Households
    Television becomes big in households. Somewhere in the range of 1953 and 1955, TV programming started to remove a few stages from radio configurations. The Tonight Show, which started in 1953 facilitated by Steve Allen (until 1957). The third system, ABC, turned its first benefit with youth-arranged shows, for example, Disneyland, which appeared in 1954 (and has since been communicated under various names), and The Mickey Mouse Club (1955ð59; see Disney, Walt).
  • The internet was developed

    The internet was developed
    The internet was finally developed but was only used in universities,government secret services,researchers and the military.
  • Affordable Personal Computers

    Affordable Personal Computers
    Personal computers become more affordable and accessible.The dominant microprocessors used in home computers were the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 (Apple, Commodore, Atari, BBC Micro) and Zilog Z80 (TRS-80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 128, Amstrad CPC).
  • Video Games

    Video Games
    Video games became popular. Pac-Man, Battlezone, Crazy Climber, Mystery House, Missile Command, Space Panic, Zork I, and Olympic Decathlon. The Atari VCS (later the Atari 2600) grew in popularity with a port of Space Invaders and support from new developer Activision.
  • PC's

    PC's
    Personal computers become more powerful.
  • Internet Updates

    Internet Updates
    Internet blows up(emailing,publishing,online gaming and file sharing).
  • Media Arts Courses

    Media Arts Courses
    Universities began to offer “New Media and Design”.You would learn how to communicate in different ways of media such as film or radio.
  • Museums and Art Galleries

    Museums and Art Galleries
    Universities began to offer “New Media and Design”.The Art Galleries and Museums displayed forms of media arts that communicate to visitors the meanings and the thinking behind the art.
  • Media Arts Expansion

    Media Arts Expansion
    Media Arts is constantly expanding at a rapid pace. Social media is a big part of media arts because you can communicate everything quickly. Also web design, film and radio still play a huge part today.