Finishing Second Life exercises

Our classroom on Anteater Island

David Denton new site

The Cetus Institute

Cedonia

Lovink Chapter Two "The Cool Obscure"

Net Art: Portal to Web-Related Art

Examples of New Media Art: Harwood of the Mongrel Collective, Jodi, Anna Munster, Mark America, John Maeda, etc.

Defining "new media art" as "a transitional, hybrid art form, and a multi-disciplinary cloud of micro-practices. Historically, new media arose when the boundaries between clearly separated art forms such as film, theater, and photography began to blur, due to the rise of digital technologies." (41)

Having to impress "both computer scientists and art curators" (44)

"middle class consumer spectacle and the experience economy" (45)

"Audiences are no longer looking for empty entertainment; they seek help." (51)

"Instead of taking the heroic stand of the avant-garde, many new media practitioners have chosen to simply drift away in clouds of images, texts, and URLs." (56)

"If new media art has such an emphasis on experimentation and collaboration with engineers, biological scientists, and innovative interfaces, then why is it not simply giving up this tragic alliance with the arts and ruthlessly seeking to integrate itself in the world of it business and computer science?" 57

Defending open standards (58) and DIY (59) and globalization (63) and a resistance to Hollywood and the dotcoms (64-67)

"Artists that developed expensive, proprietary VR installations, built for museum purposes only, inded play no role in "reshaping the world." Perhaps it is time for the virtual artists to step down, give up their obsession with the future, and catch up with contemporary uses of technology." (79)

Chapter Nine "Axioms of Free Cooperation"

The Internet is "more than a tool -- it is a social environment" (207)

"a mix of knowledge and group dynamics and the legal arrangements around collective ownership" (208)

"What is the political after its decentralization?" (218)

"We cannot merely praise collaboration as if it were a product -- or deconstruct it as just another ideology (which it is). What we are looking for is nothing less ambitious than laws, underlying mechanisms, common experiences that can be boiled down to strong, everlasting memes . . ." (219)