Lecture - 04.02.2013

CYBER ART:

Talematic Art : Science & Technology- transmit long distances - Data, Info, Images, Videos stay in cyber space for a long time in any distance
It is a different way of looking at works - the real work is not in front of us (like in a museum) bur it is a different way of interaction.
Cyber Art is invented from tools in computer hardware and software:

• The PC (personal computer)
• Internet
• Graphical User Interface

Cyber Art, archives, presents and disseminates

WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation) 1951 - Computer that reads information using dots (oldest digital computer) :

FROM THE FIRST -  IMB PORTABLE PC 5100 - 1975

TO NOW - APPLE MACINTOSH - 18

GUI - Icons - Graphical art - Susan Kare created many of the interfaces - known as the Mother of the Mac Trash can.

She created the sketches on graph paper - simple and understandable.

Some of the icons designed by Susan Kare

Internet was initially called ARPANET - concept of "packet switching"

NO. 1 in the world - fastest network - HONG KONG 

NO. 2 - SINGAPORE

GOOGLE DATA CENTRE - PEOPLE SEND DATA ONLINE, IT IS TSORED IN THAT CENTRE AND THEN TRANSMITTED EVERYWHERE :

CYBER SPACE - as a real dimension not a virtual one - allows us to enter the gallery and interact with the art work. Using our finger, we scroll and explore the gallery space.

FBI listed the type of cyber crime - hacking, fraud etc (Mostly in Europe and USA)

Since cyber art is so open, it is being abused.

Internet traffic slots around the world have been archived for many years.

ZHANGA GA - People's Portrait (SAM, 2004) - Used cameras to capture pictures of people passing by and these were displayed on billboards in various countries together:

MASHUP - Nowadays the concept of extracting parts from existing artworks to create your own.

"GOOD ARTISTS COPY, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL"

(COPYRIGHT allows to use work)

ERIC WHITACRE - VIRTUAL CHOIR - The world's largest online choir - he got everyone to post videos on YouTube of them singing in a loud shrill voice. Then he compiled all of these to form one final song.

Now, the concept of Cyber Art is developing and spreading across the world, and is a very new and interesting media of communicating art to the audience, in my opinion. Artworks like the People's portrait and the Virtual choir is interactive, brings all the common masses together and makes them an integral part of the production. Cyber art gives such opportunities to explore various techniques and mediums of art and brings the non - art background people together, which widens the scope and knowledge of art.