NEW MEDIA An Introduction

TRADITIONAL MEDIA

Image, sculpture, architecture Painting, drawing Carving, molding, fabricating Planning and building

Live performance Music, spoken word Time-based May integrate image, sculpture, architecture

TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Printmaking Duplication of images

Photography Images from life Duplication of static images

TRANSITIONAL MEDIA

TECHNOLOGY

Plate from Animal Locomotion book by Eadweard Muybridge, 1884.

TRANSITIONAL MEDIA

TECHNOLOGY

The Horse in Motionby Eadweard Muybridge, 1878.

View as animation.

TRANSITIONAL MEDIA

TECHNOLOGY

Kinetoscope:Developed by William Dickson for Thomas Edison, 1889-1892.

TRANSITIONAL MEDIA

TECHNOLOGY

Film:Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888.Earliest surviving celluloid film, recorded by Louis Le Prince (12 frames per second, runs for 2.11 seconds)

NEW MEDIA (DIGITAL MEDIA) Media technology combined with computing

Media technology:Signal processing and transmission (sound, image, data)

Computing:Use and/or development of computer software and hardware

NEW MEDIA A Very Brief History

MECHANICAL COMPUTER

Charles Babbage (1792-1871) invented the first mechanical computer to tabulate polynomial functions.

None of his designs were ever built during his lifetime.

ADA BYRON, LADY LOVELACEConsidered to be the first computer programmer.

Created plans for how Babbage’s Analytical Engine could calculate Bernoulli numbers.

U.S. Department of Defense named a language “Ada” in her honor in 1979.

A VERY BRIEF HISTORY, CONCLUSION• Computer

• Internet

• World Wide Web

NEW MEDIA GENRES

Digital artComputer graphicsComputer animationVirtual artInternet artInteractive artVideo gamesComputer roboticsArt as biotechnology…and more!

LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA

Lev Manovich:

Numerical Representation

• Eric J. Heller• Shaurya Kumar

Modularity• Cyriak• Android Jones

Automation• Aleph Null• Six Sided Strange

Variability• Theyrule.net• Google Maps

Cultural Transcoding

"Since new media is created on computers, distributed via computers, stored and archived on computers, the logic of a computer can be expected to have a significant influence on the traditional cultural logic of media......The result of this composite is the new computer culture: blend of human and computer meanings ..."

NEW MEDIA

Still image:How does it compare to painting and drawing? Printmaking? Photography?

Interactive:How does it compare to film? Theatre? Still image?