Art in the 4th Dimension:Film and Performance

Reading:Artforms, 133-147

Terms/Concepts:persistence of vision, shot, montage, motion capture, video installation, digital art, interactive art, internet art,

What is the “4th Dimension?”:A Humanistic Explanation

The 2nd Dimension:Exists on a flat plane.Space is only implied.Motion is only implied.Time is only implied.Texture is often implied.

2nd Dimension: Raffello Sanzio da Urbino, Portrait of Lorenzo di Medici, 1519.

What is the “4th Dimension?”:A Humanistic Explanation

The 3rd Dimension:Image exists in the viewers’ space.Is typically more tactile.Most movement depends on the viewer.Time is mostly implied.

3rd Dimension: Andrea del Verrocchio, Portrait of Lorenzo di Medici, Cast Bronze, 1480.

What is the “4th Dimension?”:A Humanistic Explanation

The 4th Dimension:TimeSoundInteractionMovementExperience that is more than or beyond the visual. 4th Dimension: Sylvain Bernard, “Ezio and

Lorenzo di Medici” from Assassin’s Creed 2, 2009.

What is the “4th Dimension?”:A Humanistic Explanation

The 4th Dimension:FilmVideo InstallationSound ArtDigital ArtPerformance Art

4th Dimension: Sylvain Bernard, “Ezio and Lorenzo di Medici” from Assassin’s Creed 2, 2009.

Performance Film/Video

Digital

What is Performance?

Incorporates elements of…TheaterDanceMusicRitual

Media of Performance:TimeMotion & ActionVoice & SoundThe Artist’s BodyThe EnvironmentThe Audience

Artforms: Dramatic presentation by visual artists (as distinguished from theater artists such as actors and dancers) in front of an audience, usually not in a formal setting.

What is Performance?

Incorporates elements of…TheaterDanceMusicRitual

Media of Performance:TimeMotion & ActionVoice & SoundThe Artist’s BodyThe EnvironmentThe Audience

Creation of an artwork using the artist’s body and extensions of that body (time, motion, action, sound, etc.) that only exists in real time and space among spectators/participants.

Performance

Hugo Ball, Karawane (Caravan), 1916.

Performance

Oskar Schlemmer, Triadic Ballet, Berlin, 1926.

Performance

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965.

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Performance

Joseph Beuys, I like America and America likes me, 1974.

Performance

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), David Zwirner Gallery 2002 (Left), 1992 (Right)

Performance

Thomas Hirshhorn, Bataille Monument, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002.

Experimenting with Movement

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.

Experimenting with Movement

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.

Experimenting with Movement

Zootrope with Running Horse.

Film

Edwin Porter, The Great Train Robbery, Film Still, 1903

Film

Edwin G. Porter, The Great Train Robbery, 1903

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Cinema and Art

Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, film still, 1941.

Cinema and Art

Katsuhiro Ohtomo, Akira, Film Still, 1988.

Cinema and Art

Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth, Film Still, 2006.

Film

Salvador Dali and Luis Brunel, Un Chien Andalou, c. 1930-1940.

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Film

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3, Video, 2002.

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Video Installation

Nam June Paik, Video Flag Z, Multi-Media, television sets, videodiscs, videodisc players, Plexiglas modular cabinet, 1986.

Video Installation

Nam June Paik, Video Flag Z, Multi-Media, television sets, videodiscs, videodisc players, Plexiglas modular cabinet, 1986.

Video Installation

Bjorn Melhus, Men Still Out There, 2003

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What is Digital Art?

Grahame Weinbren: “the digital revolution is a revolution of random access .”

ENIAC 1946 Apple II 1971 First Website 1990 World Wide Web 1993

What is Digital Art?

Can be…ImagesFilmsWebsitesProgramsGamesSoftwareMachines

Themes:InteractionChanging TechnologyVirtualityVeracity/Deception

An artwork created and distributed by utilizing digital technologies.

Digital Art

Vera Molnar, (Des)Ordres, Plotter Drawing, 1974.

Digital Art

Lynn Hershman Leeson, DiNA, 2004, Artificially Intelligent agent, network connection, custom software, video and microphone.

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