DIGITAL IMAGING 2
Instructor: Peter Thompson
Research Project Choices
(Revised 9/19/2002)
The Research Project you will carry out is an opportunity is to expose yourself to a wide
spectrum of contemporary experimental categories of art and to artists living in many
different nations who work in those categories. Your task is to have a good time
browsing among the following rather extensive list of options, then to choose one and to
research that person, the issues they are dealing with, and finally, to present their works
and the fruits of that research to your colleagues. Do an internet search on a name; in
some cases you can begin that process by simply clicking on a URL, below.
Due on Week 6 is a typed, spell-checked one paragraph summary of the person, issues
and works you wish to deal with in PDF format using the InDesign application program.
At that time you will draw lots for your presentation date later in the semester. On that
date you will make a 10-minute summary presentation to your colleagues on the
essence of what you have learned.
More specifically: on the date of your presentation, bring a digital text file in PDF format
with embedded images, as appropriate, of the central concepts, works and resources
dealing with your artist. Open the class partition and copy your file into the folder
entitled “Research Presentations”. Your digital file should be at least 10-pages in
length. Start your presentation by reading a typed one-paragraph summation of the
central concept(s). Practice beforehand, because you will have ten minutes, and ten
minutes only, to make your points! This opportunity will also be good practice for
“pitches” and grant applications that you will have to do, over and over, forever and
ever, for the rest of your professional life. Sigh.
The following URLs are from this invaluable resource: Stephen Wilson, INFORMATION
ARTS, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002, 945 pages:
EXTENSIONS OF PHOTOGRAHY, CINEMA, VIDEO & LITERATURE
Jim Campbell http://www.kemperart.org/dwessy.htm
Ed Tannenbaum http://www.et-arts.com/index.html
Studio Azzurro http://www.imprese.com/video/net/st.htm
Su Do-Ho
Graham Harwood
Lisa Prah http://web.aec.at/infowar/PROJEKTE/bernadette.html
Peter d’Agostino http://www.temple.edu/newtechlab/TRACES/
Kevin and Jennifer McCoy
Lev Manovich http://visarts.ucsd.edu/~manovich/FLN
Judy Malloy http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/
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Jill Scott
Mark Amerika http://www.grammatron.com/about.html
Lynn Hershman
Peter Weibel
Christine Tamblyn
Joan Truckenbrod
Paul Sermon
Marita Liulia http://www.medeia.com/
Shu Lea Cheang
Brandon Project
Perry Hoberman Subdivision of the Electric Light http://www.Hoberman.com/perry/
Marjorie Franklin Digital Blood http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/ejournals/Leonardo/isast/wow/wow303/digital.html
Claude Closky http://www.diacenter.org/closky/intro.html
Bill Seaman http://research.umbc.edu/~seaman/
Tamas Waliczky Butterfly Effect
Erwin Redl
Joseph Squires
Annette Weintraub http://www.turbulence.org/Works/pedestrian/intro.html
Jean-Louis Boissier
Constance DeJong http://www.diacenter.org/rooftop/webproj/fprayer/fprayer2.html
“Doors of Perception” http://www.doorsofperception.com/doors/
Erik Loyer Lair of the Marrow Monkey http://www.marrowmonkey.com/
Beverly Reiser http://www.idiom.com/~beverly/
Toshio Iwai
Scott Sona Snibbe http://193.170.192.5/prix/1996/E96azI-motion.html
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio http://www.ace.co.uk/seriousgames/diller.html
ECOLOGICAL ART
Newton and Helen Harrison
Alan Sonfist
Mierle Landerman Ukeles
Agnes Denes
Paolo Soleri http://www.arcosanti.org/
NATURAL PHENOMENA: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS, WATER & WEATHER ART
Ned Kahn
Michael Brown
Athena Tacha http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/athena/tacha2.html
Bill and Mary Buchen
Robert Muolder and Kristi Allik
Mind into Matter exhibition http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/mindmatter/mimtitle.html
BODY & MEDICINE ART
Stelarc
Marcerl.li Antunez Roca
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Stahl Stenslie
Orlan http://www.cicv.fr/creation_artistique/online/orlan/manifeste/carnal.html
Eduardo Kac http://www.ekac.org/amach.html
Paras Kaul http://www.well.com/user/parasw/
Catherine Richards
Steve Miller http://www.stevemiller.com/
TELEPRESENCE ART
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer http://www.telefonica.es/fat/elozano.html
Stelarc
Project Taos http://www.sensorium.org/
WEB ART ARCHIVE & INFO SITES
ZKM Net Condition
http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/
Walker Art Center Projects http://www.walkerart.org/
Walker Art Center http://aen.walkerart.org
Natalie Bookchin’s NetNetNet http://calarts.edu/~ntntnt
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial Web Art
Pipsqueek Productions http://www.TheTherapist.com
Disinformation web Site http://www.disinfo.com
Barbara Lee and Beverly Reiser http://www.ylem.org/private_loves/public_opera.html
Akke Wagenaar
J. Bradley Adams and Steven West
Vitaly Komas and Alex Melamid http://www.diacenter.org/km/
Jenny Holzer http://www.adaweb.com/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi
Paul Vanouse, Eric Nyberg and Lisa Hutton
Trevor Blackwell
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio http://www.diacenter.org/dillerscofidio/index.html
Amy Alexander http://shoko.calarts.edu/~alex/recycler.html
Mark Napier http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/
Peter M. Traub http://music.dartmouth.edu/~peter/bits/
Bonnie Mitchell
Knowbotic Research http://www.khm.de/people/krcf/IO/
Madelyn Starbuck http://www.cyberopera.org
Sharon Daniel
Carol Flax http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/Ex/ex_changing_right.html
Abbe don http://www.bubbe.com/
Jodi http://www.jodi.org
Linus Torwalds http://www.linux.org
Igor Stromajer http://www.intima.org
Nick Philip http://www.best.com/~nphilip/instal.htm
http://www.potatoland.org/landfill/
Judy Malloy
C5 http://www.c5corp.com/
Noah Wardrip-Fruin http://www.cat.nyu.edu/agent/
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Etoy http://www.etoy.com
Digi-crime http://www.digicrime.com/dc.html
Fred Forest http://www.gpdoc.com/htm/filnet05.htm
Herman Hack http://www.hack-roof.de
Su Lea Cheang http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org/
Konrad Becker’s “Remote Viewing” http://www.t0.or.at/~konrad
Jenny Marketou http://smellbytes.banff.org
Steven Greenwood http://members.tripod.com/sgwood
Jeffrey Shaw http://escape.lancs.ac.uk
Yahoo Cool Links Directory
MICROWORLD, PLANTS & ANIMAL ART
George Gessert http://www.geneart.org/gessert.htm
Athena Tacha http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/athena/tacha2.html
Hubert Duprat http://mitpress.mit.edu/ejournals/Leonardo/isast/articles/duprat/duprat.html
Eric Samakh and David Rokeby http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby/pt.html
ATOMIC PHYSICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY ART
Shawn Brixey http://digitalmedia.berkeley.edu/shawn/brixey.html
Felice Frankel http://web.mit.edu/felicef/http://web.mit.edu/felicef/
SPACE ART
Tom Van Sant
Michael Heivly http://academic.csubak.edu/~mheivly/deepspace/bio.html
Pauline Oliveros http://www.deeplistening.org/pauline/writings/moon.html
ALGORHYTHMIC ART
Institute for Artificial Art http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/members/bern/algoart.html
Roman Verostko http://www.verostko.com/
John Maeda & MIT Media Lab Aesthetics and Computation Group
Stewart Dickson
4-D web site
Clifford Pickover http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/ad6.html
ARTIFICAL LIFE & GENETIC ART
A-Life on Line http://Alife.santafe.edu/
Joel Slayton
Louis Bec
Yves Klein
Thomas Ray
Digital Biodiversity Preserve http://www.biota.org
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Karl Sims
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UCLA A-Life art exhibition
KINETICS, SOUND INSTALLATIONS, ROBOT ART
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California at Berkeley http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu
Rodney Brooks http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/
CONCEPTUAL KINETICS & ELECTRONICS ART
Milton Komisar
Bryan Rogers
Perry Hoberman http://www.hoberman.com/perry/
Bruce Cannon http://www.siliconcrucible.com
KINETIC INSTRUMENTS, SOUND SCULPTURE
Nigel Helyer http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe/issue7/nhtxt.html
Trimpin http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery291/trimpin.html
Bill Fontana http://www.resoundings.org/
Bart Hopkins http://windworld.com/emi
ROBOT ART
Simon Penny
Survival Research Labs http://www.srl.org
Robot Wars http://www.robotwars.com
Seemen http://www.seemen.org
Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn http://www.billvorn.com
Chico MacMurtie’s Amorphous Robotics Works
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