Sg2009wc:art
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Title: Art and Emerging Technology
Session: 3-H Bay Area Jan 2009
Convener: Sasha Harris-Cronin
Attendees:
Notes:
What’s the coolest combination of technology and art that you’ve seen?
- virtual art galleries\
- designing on computer and printing onto silk
- costumes at the China Olympics
- digital art in healing
- machine-plant systems (created by artist in SF)
- PushDance: combining dance, technology and social issues
- Wearable technology
- Joseph Boyes exhibit (artist who uses a lot of video)
- Learning to Love You More: website that brings people together through assignments and art projects
- online searchable video archive
- InfiniteCat: collaboration with pictures of cats looking at pictures of cats looking at cats, etc. Now up to ~10,000
- ArtScope: Look through SF MOMA’s archives, including links and information
- National Archives: will be able to create movies using their images
- ZoomQuilt.nikki.net: Dive into one image which leads to the next, which leads to another, etc.
Observations:
- Technology has transformed textile manufacturing
- Technology has transformed design (including architecture)
- Technology is making collaboration between artists much easier (ex: writing, songwriting)
- Tools for joining art and technology are becoming much more accessible. This includes both software and hardware (ex: sensors that move sculptures based on # of people in the tool)
- Technology has changed our expectations. Ex: interactions with Wii and iPhone are becoming the standards
- The computer doesn’t allow the tactile experience of working with artistic media (paint, clay, metal, fabric). However, it does allow more control over design.
- How will technology change what we know as “art”?
Challenges:
- Funding: difficult to write (and interpret) grant applications when they are for art using technology
- Maintenance of technology (such as interactive installations at museums)
- How to archive (ex: art saved on media 10 years ago may not be readable with today’s hardware/software)
- How to license and sell art if it’s accessible on line
- The art world is not used to talking about project management, which will be needed more and more