Reading Response January 14, 2014

Beverly J. Williams 2602_sp19

New Media Art

           To discuss how new media is inclusive and exclusive of traditional media, a compilation is needed. Some new media could be the world wide web, google images, digital camera, graphic design, flicker, computer software, twitter, games, Facebook, television, and radio. Traditional media could include film camera, newspaper, television, radio, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and games. A comparison of different artist will show how they include or exclude the new and traditional medias. Providing an insight of art that is inclusive, exclusive, and may have overlapping aspects of new media and traditional media..

    New media games intersect with the traditional media of board games and card games. Both types of games are prolific in today’s society and can be played online with others or in the privacy of your home. The gaming artist uses the same design principles that any other artist would us. Let us examine the media of video games and Cory Arcangel. He used traditional medium of the game super mario brothers. He accessed the software to isolate the clouds for his image. This digital image was displayed on numerous panels in the Lisson Gallery in Switzerland along with an digital image of a M29 soviet fighter jet. Cory excluded some of the images used in the traditional game and included the new media of digital images.

    Radio is an example of traditional medium. This technology is still very relevant today. With the ever increasing use of the internet, there is a high demand for internet that has very fast download and upload speeds. A lot of older buildings are not wired for current internet use. It would be very costly to wire these buildings for this. In order to met the demand for internet in Boston, without using one of the monopoly companies, Brough Turner came up with way to bring high internet to Boston. Turner did this  without the high monthly cost associated with the monopoly companies. No need to attach things to poles or dig up large areas to install underground cable. Turner uses 19th century technology, Radio airwaves, which are free. With the current availability of low cost high powered antennas, which are capable of transmitting the signal to a wide area, it is now possible to bring low cost high speed internet to the masses.

    One of the oldest medias is drawing. Whether it be stone to stone or graphic to paper, drawing is one of the materials easiest to obtain. Whether an artist wishes to render a sketch, an abstract image or representational image, drawing is the base medium for most all artworks. You might think it has been excluded from the new media. Think again. Drawing is being done with computers with the assistance of  new high powered graphic design programs.

    It is really difficult to think of a media whether it be new media or traditional media that excludes the other. Most new media uses something from traditional media. We continue to look to the past for inspiration. Create on.