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Unsorted
- Thoughts on the Information Arts
A Guide to Sonic Acts 10
With contributions by Mitchell Whitelaw, Lev
Manovich, Stephen Wilson, Arthur Elsenaar, tobias c. van Veen, goodwill,
Taco Stolk, Arie Altena (ed.).
Art reflects the society which gave birth to it. It is therefore not
surprising that many new art forms have emerged in recent years (from
computer art to neo-conceptualism and from business art to genomic
art) which in form and content are rooted in the information society:
the information arts. These information arts often defy several paradigms
on which traditional art forms are based. Therefore we have to pose
the question if there are other models of categorization that provide
us with a better insight in the arts.
The traditional images of the skilled craftsman or the individual
artistic genius do not fit information artists very well. They pose
themselves as directors, mediators or researchers, and often organsie
themselves in collectives. To many young artists, these paradigm shifts
come naturally. They react creatively on the society in which they
live. It can be foreseen that the art world will evolve in directions
which fit the new arts. This will however only happen when we develop
new insights on the differences and similarities of these arts.
Unsorted contributes to the emerging discussion in this field. Rather
than having the pretensions of sorting it all out, this publication
discloses some of the relevant questions. It focusses on the characteristics
of the information arts – on the level of the work of individual
artists and collectives, as well as on the level of their mutual relations.
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Arie Altena
[NL]
publication
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Casey
Reas [US]
publication
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Driessens
& Verstappen [NL]
publication |
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Goodwill
[UK]
publication |
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Lev Manovich
[RU]
publication
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Mitchell
Whitelaw [AU]
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Stephen
Wilson [US]
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tobias
c. van Veen [CA]
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Other SONIC ACTS PUBLICATIONS
SONIC ACTS: THE ART OF PROGRAMMING
edited by: Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden and Jan Peter van der
Wenden
© 2002 Sonic Acts Press / de balie / 177 pages / color / inc.
cd + dvd
The conference The Art of Programming was held during the 9th edition
of the Sonic Acts festival which took place from 6 - 9 December
2001 in Paradiso in Amsterdam and in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
in The Hague. The conference covered a range of subjects concerning
recent international developments in digital art and digital music.
The last day of the conference concentrated on the way these issues
are dealt with in art education in The Netherlands.
During the conference a number of provoking questions was raised
concerning the role of art and the artist in the 21st century. Will
the technological revolution and the biological revolution become
paralleled by a revolution in the arts? Will 'moist media' emerge
in which dry silicon computers and wet living biology will be brought
together? Will interactive art forms lead to new arts practice in
which organic life, the human body and human consciousness will
be re-connected in essentially new ways? Will all this lead to a
new convergence of art and science?
These and many other thrilling questions are dealt with by a great
number of artists working in electronic music and the media arts.
The conference book contains contributions by:Roy Ascott, Paul Berg,
Robert Henke, Micheal Punt, Casey Reas, Robin Rimbaud, Joel Ryan,
Thecla Schiphorst, Chris Speed, Adrian Ward and by a dozen of artists
and scientists working in Dutch art schools and universities.
The DVD contains a registrations of the festival (18:49)
The CD contains tracks by : Slub/ Claustrum / Dadata / Funckarma
/ Kent / Wanga(vs. Quality.filtersystem) / Needle / Out of Data
/Monolake/ Perspects /Scanner (49:48)
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PIXEL • PROGRAMMING
edited by Frans Evers
© 2002 Sonic Acts Press / 36 pages / bw / inc. cd-rom
This is the first Sonic Acts Press publication, with three lectures
in it by Vincent Icke, Dick Raaymakers and Taco Stolk. It is accompanied
by a cd-rom containing remixes of the XorC project by Out of Data.
The audio part of the cd-rom contains tracks by: Peter Max, Ernst
van der Loo, Ingmar Pauli, Xavier van Wersch, Thijs Scheele and
Robert Pravda.
The rom part of the cd-rom contains video clips by: Robert Pravda,
Tappo Kontakt, Arthur Ivens, G. Oddens and Minuszero.
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