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Baird Mechanical Television
In 1926, John Logie Baird invented the Baird Mechanical Television. It screened only 30 lines of resolution and image was barely recognizable. However, the impact was huge, as it lead to the invention of the wireless TV system, which were the first steps towards the "global village" culture. -
Oscillon 40
In the 1950s, artists have widely started experimenting with mechanical devices and analogue computers. One of the earliest examples is Ben Laposky's work under the name Oscilion 40. Laposky photographed numerous electromagnetic waves on fluorescent screen. The waves moved on the screen, but there was no way of recording these movements on paper at this time. By photographing them, the artist was able to capture these images and record them for history.They were also used in medicine later. -
Exposition of Music-Electronic Television
Nam June Paik, a member of the Neo-Dada / Fluxus movement is considered to be the founder of video art and has coined the term electronic superhighway which describes the future of telecommunications. EMET was his big debut where he scattered televisions and used magnets to distort their images.With his other works, he influenced the creation of MTV and MTV aesthetics. -
Hommage à Paul Klee 13/9/65 Nr.2
The artist Frieder Nake was interested in the relationship between the horizontal and vertical elements of Paul Klee's Highroads and Byroads. He created an algorithm that instructed the computer to plot a series of shapes in order to produce a work of art. This was one of the earliest attempts at digital art. -
Videoplace
One of the first user oriented AR works was Krueger's Videoplace. It was an experiement of how an activity preformed by a computer can be an artform. In the videoplace, the participant's shadows were able to play with a computerized Critter, making sure that the interaction with the computer surpasses the mouse and the keyboard. Other interaction was also when two shadows touched and made a sound. -
Untitled Computer Assisted Drawing
In the early 1970s the Slade School of Art in London created a department called the Experimental and Computing Department. This department was one of the first ones to try and integrated the digital with the art, which is what makes it a mileston. Paul Brown studied at Slade and his drawing reflect his development of a tile-based image generating system. -
Media Burn
AntFarm is a group of artists which produce experimental works for 10 years in the 70s. The group combined a number of interdisciplinary branches and documented their activites in the form of video art. Media Burn is their work where two artist drove a Cadillac in the wall of the flaming TV sets. It was one of the biggest criticisms of the American media culture and future. -
Tablotin 327 6
Vera Molnar was a Hungarian artist who ditched the canvas and replaced it with a computer. She is one of the pioneers of computer and algorithmic arts. Her interest in post-constructivism allowed her to create Tablotin 327 6, which is an ode to the first generation of computer artists which integrate classical art standards with mathematics and computing. -
Good Morning Mr. Orwell
Another amazing work by Nam June Paik was the television broadcast under the name Good Morning Mr. Orwell. Paik waned to create a sense of connection while exploring ideas surroinding Orwell's Big Brother. -
Forest Devils’ Moonlight
This reimagination of Pittsburghs' Forest Devils' Moonlight by Kenneth Snelson is one of the first uses of scientific modelling on a computer. This allowed him to explore his imagination and make structures that stand for themselves and not for a purpose. It is a great example of creating art for art, and not art for practicality. -
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War
Made by Olia Lialina, My boyfriend came back from the war was one of the first browser-art pieces to transform a story into an online work of art which is everlasting. The story is navigated through clicks on texts and images and has been reimagined by numerous New Media artists. The value of her artpiece is infinite and leaves a digital footprint she will be remembered by forever. You can experience it here: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/ -
Every Icon
Created in 1997 by John F.Simon, Every Icon is a unique piece of artwork. Inspired by Sol LeWitt and Suprematism, this artoworks tries to realize every pictorial icon in a 32-by32 grid of black and white squares and give the computing power in 1997 they calculated that it could take them several hundred trilion years to complete. It is unique and everlasting and you can visit it here:http://numeral.com/appletsoftware/eicon.html -
0100101110101101.org at Venice
An italian collective known as 0100101110101101.org released a computer virus called Biennale.py. The virus caught everybody's attention and blew the event out of proportion. It was a criticism to the way the new media could create hysteria and provocation, with the question: can something as destructive as a virus still be considered art? Especially art that is still relevant today? -
Eyebeam
Although not the creator of Eyebeam, Joseph deLappe is an Eyebeam's virual worlds artist who customized a threadmill and walked the enitre 240 miles of the original Mahatma Ghandi's Salt March. This is one of the early examples of online protests and digital exploration - even our wars are now led online. -
ABE AND MO SING THE BLOGS
Collaborative work by Marias Olson and Abe Linkoln is the first piece of work called post-internet art, which Olson coined herself and considers art made after getting inspiration from the internet. It is an important indicator of early use of the internet to explore the nature of the online experience. It highlighted the global impact of the net as well as the way it is possible to find your podium on the platform and live a new, online life. -
My Generation
In a utopian world, Eva and Franco Mattes created My generation, featuring a compilation of online videos showing games, connected to a smashed computer displayed on a monitor. They manipulate human emotions, whilst using the tools of the internet and computer, whether it is online games, virtual worlds or faking a suicide. They said: “I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t use today’s tools,Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel for example is ancient virtual reality, 3D immersion in a simulation.” -
How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File
Hito Steyerl combines CGI, video and YouTube to create video essays (which he is a pioneer of) that critique war, capitalism, globalization and technology. Steyerl claims that to "not be seen” by omnipresent drone surveillance, one must “become smaller or equal to one pixel” since that’s the smallest unit of measurement detected by pixel-based resolution charts. Other ways “not to be seen” include “living in a gated community” or “being female and over 50.” -
Excellences & Perfections
Amalia Ulman held a perfromance on her instagram over the course of several months in 2014. In her performance, she pretended to get implants, altered her features and followed a diet. Navigating this kind of social medial landscape put her on the map while she criticized celebrities and influencers with carefully picked personas. Her work is important because of the future of the market which is based on social media appearances. Her hoax predicted the way we use social media right now. -
Life is Right Now
Steve Roggenbuck is a poet who became first obsessed with social media - and then obsessed with criticizing it. Since 2010 he has been making video poetry under the name of the series "Life is Right Now". Roggenbuck indulges in nature as well as egocentric thoughts as he spews his poetry in a vlog like manner. He has been called "the youtuber who might save the world" and his digital footprint is truly remarkable. Have a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENZ2zRB-0AI&feature=emb_title -
Rising
Marina Abramović's Rising addresses the theme of Global Warming. While wearing a headset, the participant confronts Marina in a virutal set-up drowning in a tank. To produce the artwork, Acute Art developers captured the artist’s unique facial expressions to create a realistic looking avatar of Abramović. Embracing new technology in an endeavour to transmit the presence of the artist virtually, Rising allows users to directly interact with the artist virtually from anywhere in the world. -
Serial Parallels
Max Hattler is an experimental filmmaker which uses CGI to explore our own space and the limitations of the simulation that is our world. The film is showing Hong Kong and its density. In an interview with Dezeen, Hattler explained that “Through this animation approach, the cityscape is reimagined as a living machine, a machine for living, and also a space which is all-encompassing and cannot be escaped."
