[-empyre-] Re: empyre Digest, Vol 40, Issue 8

[Sean Cubitt]

Further notes on new media art history:
1. there's a link from the page Paul mentions to the Cache project, which he
co-=founded, 
http://www.e-x-p.org/cache/index.HTM

2. there's an internmational movment to establish media art history which
many empyreans are involved with: next conference in melbourne in November
2009, CFP will come round the usual lists in a month or so - see
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

sean


On 12/3/08 9:41 AM, "Paul Brown" <paul at paul-brown.com> wrote:

> Jon (all)
> 
> The lack of good material on the history of the "new media" arts is a
> major problem with people reinventing the wheel every 10 years or so.
> 
> The first person I remember experimenting with computational art +
> games in the UK was Stephen Bell when he was a student of the
> Experimental and Computing Dept at the Slade School of Art in the
> mid-70's.  Stephen is now at the UK's National Centre for Computer
> Animation in Bournemouth and he was the person who posted the
> announcement of the death of Gary Gygax to the CAS (Computer Arts
> Society) elist that I forwarded to empyre.  Back in the 70's Stephen
> was an early player of networked D&D using the early Joint Academic
> Network (JANET) in the UK (using "dumb" terminals networked to an
> Oxford Uni mainframe in downtime - 2 till 4 am) and developed some
> artworks, based on Space Wars for his postgrad show at the Slade in 79.
> 
> Even earlier was the ECOGame by George Mallen et al exhibited at
> Computer 70 and then the First World Economic Forum in Davos (in
> 71?).  Google "ecogame mallen" for links.  An early focus for the CAS
> were games and interaction though sadly a lot of the documentation
> has been lost.
> 
> Maybe I can do a little promotion for the history?  The Digital ArtS
> Histories e-list was set up a few years ago, is pretty quiet but I'd
> like to see it used more, and it's moderated so there's no spam or
> irrelevant posts.  To join:
> 
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk - create an account
> join list DASH - Digital ArtS Histories
> also list CAS  - Computer Arts Society (2008 is the 40th anniversary
> of CAS)
> 
> Also pdf copies of PAGE (the CAS bulletin) going back to 1969 can be
> downloaded via links from here:
> 
>    http://www.computer-arts-society.org/page/index.html
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
> 
> On 12 Mar 2008, at 07:21, jonCates wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:18 AM, John Haber wrote:
>>> It's striking that one of the first artists to incorporate gaming
>>> into his work, Cory Arcangel, did so in a spirit of significant
>>> disruption and a bit of parody.
>> 
>> Cory Arcangel's work is of course an important point of reference
>> but he is certainly not "one of the first artists to incorporate
>> gaming into his work". as we weave these histories of Art Games in/
>> to Media Art Histories it is crucial to keep the context of the
>> last 40 years of experimental Media Art in the forefront of memory.
>> a narrative of Art World gaming can be + is told that frames DADA,
>> Surrealism, Situationism + FLUXUS as important playful predecessors
>> to contemporary Digital, New Media Art + Art Games. for me, again
>> in the nearby pasts, i particularly appreciate"Play it by Trust" by
>> Yoko Ono from 1966 (in terms of gallery-based work) + "Prisoners'
>> Dilemma" by Richard Serra from 1974 (in terms of experimental Media
>> Art) as important/inspirational points of reference + critical
>> engagements.
>> 
>> // jonCates
>> # Assistant Professor - Film, Video & New Media
>> # The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
>> # http://saic.edu/~jcates
>> # Game As Art, Art as Game
>> # http://artgames.ning.com
>> 
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