Art in the Fourth Dimension: Digital, Film, Internet

Lecture given February 14, 2012

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1. Art  in  the  4th  Dimension:  
   Digital,  Film,  Internet  
   Reading:  
   Ar,orms,  133-­‐147  
    
   Terms/Concepts:  
   persistence  of  vision,  shot,  
   montage,  mo=on  capture,  
   video  installa=on,  digital  
   art,  interac=ve  art,  
   internet  art,  
   

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2. What  is  the  “4th  Dimension?”:  
   A  Humanis=c  Explana=on  
   The  2nd  Dimension:  
    Exists  on  a  flat  plane.  
    Space  is  only  implied.  
    Mo=on  is  only  implied.  
    Time  is  only  implied.  
    Texture  is  oMen  only  
   implied.  
   2nd  Dimension:  Raffello  Sanzio  da  Urbino,  
   Portrait  of  Lorenzo  di  Medici,  1519.      
   

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3. What  is  the  “4th  Dimension?”:  
   A  Humanis=c  Explana=on  
   The  3rd  Dimension:  
    Image  exists  in  the  
   viewers’  space.  
    Is  typically  more  tac=le.  
    Most  movement  
   depends  on  the  viewer.  
    Time  is  mostly  implied.  
   3rd  Dimension:  Andrea  del  Verrocchio,  
   Portrait  of  Lorenzo  di  Medici,  Cast  Bronze,  
   1480.      
   

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4. What  is  the  “4th  Dimension?”:  
   A  Humanis=c  Explana=on  
   The  4th  Dimension:  
    Time  
    Sound  
    Interac=on  
    Movement  
    Experience  that  is  
   more  than  or  beyond  
   the  visual.   4th  Dimension:  Sylvain  Bernard,  “Ezio  and  
   Lorenzo  di  Medici”  from  Assassin’s  Creed  
   2,  2009.  
   

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5. What  is  the  “4th  Dimension?”:  
   A  Humanis=c  Explana=on  
   The  4th  Dimension:  
    Film  
    Video  Installa=on  
    Sound  Art  
    Digital  Art  
    Performance  Art  
   4th  Dimension:  Sylvain  Bernard,  “Ezio  and  
   Lorenzo  di  Medici”  from  Assassin’s  Creed  
   2,  2009.  
   

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6. Performance   Film/Video  
   Digital  
   

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7. Experimen=ng  with  Movement  
   Eadweard  Muybridge,  The  Horse  in  Mo=on,  1878.    
   

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8. Experimen=ng  with  Movement  
   Eadweard  Muybridge,  The  Horse  in  Mo=on,  1878.    
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9. Experimen=ng  with  Movement  
   Zootrope  with  Running  Horse.  
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10. Film  
    Edwin  Porter,  The  Great  Train  Robbery,  Film  S=ll,  1903  
    

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11. Film  
    Edwin  G.  Porter,  The  Great  Train  Robbery,  1903  
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12. Orson  Welles,  CiCinema  and  Art  
    

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13. Joseph  L.  Mankiewcz,  Cleopatra,  film  s=ll,  1963.  
    Cinema  and  Art  
    

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14. Cinema  and  Art  
    Katsuhiro  Ohtomo,  Akira,  Film  S=ll,  1988.  
    

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15. Guillermo  del  Toro,  Pan’s  Labyrinth,  Film  S=ll,  2006.  
    Cinema  and  Art  
    

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16. Video  Art  
    Salvador  Dali  and  Luis  Brunel,  Un  Chien  Andalou,  c.  1930-­‐1940.  
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17. Video  Art  
    Mahhew  Barney,  Cremaster  3,  Video,  2002.  
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18. Video  Installa=on  
    Nam  June  Paik,  Video  Flag  Z,  Mul=-­‐Media,  television  sets,  videodiscs,  
    videodisc  players,  Plexiglas  modular  cabinet,  1986.  
    

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19. Video  Installa=on  
    Nam  June  Paik,  Video  Flag  Z,  Mul=-­‐Media,  television  sets,  videodiscs,  
    videodisc  players,  Plexiglas  modular  cabinet,  1986.  
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20. Video  Installa=on  
    Bjorn  Melhus,  Men  S=ll  Out  There,  2003  
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21. What  is  Digital  Art?  
    Grahame  Weinbren:    
    “the  digital  revolu=on  is  a  revolu=on  of  random  access  .”  
    ENIAC  1946   Apple  II  1971   First  Website  1990   World  Wide  Web  1993  
    

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22. What  is  Digital  Art?  
    Can  be…  
     Images  
     Films  
     Websites  
     Programs  
     Games  
     SoMware  
     Machines  
     
    Themes:  
     Interac=on  
     Changing  Technology  
     Virtuality  
     Veracity/Decep=on  
    An  artwork  created  and  distributed  by  u=lizing  
    digital  technologies.  
    

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23. Digital  Art  
    Vera  Molnar,  (Des)Ordres,  Ploher  Drawing,  1974.  
    

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24. For  web-­‐based  artworks…  
    Rhizome.org  
    

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