Digital Arts ::: week 3 notes

Alva Noto
Sound artist (Carsten Nicolai) who generates music and animation using mathematical processes, typically for live performance. Often highly minimalist work that closely connects sound and image that is inspired by self-organising processes such as the growth of snow crystals. In 2001, a collaboration with Marko Meljhan entitled 'polar' was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica. This was a space that used multiple projectors, speakers and other devices to visualise both the interaction of people in the space and a matrix of information.

ref: alva noto website | polar interactive artwork


Lee Bul
Korean artist that works mainly with sculpture inspired aspects of contemporary pop culture such as anime and sci-fi. These typically take the form of room sized installations in which the audience can walk through an exploded monster or cyborg. Although these works use the seductive aesthetic usually associated with advanced technology, they take a critical position and question the culture from which they originate.

ref: work at The NGV International


John Madea
Graphic designer, artist and computer scientist based at the MIT Media Lab. Maeda is a pioneer in the application of programming to solve design problems, including the development of interactive motion graphics at a time when the Internet was largely static text and image. His work was featured in a major retrospective at the ICC (Tokyo) in 2001 that explored his software, design and installation works. An excerpt from his most recent book 'Laws of Simplicity' is included in the reader.

ref: Post-Digital a retrospective of Maeda's work in 2001


Jonah Bruckner-Cohen
Artist / researcher interested in questioning our current perceptions of networked communication and experience, typically by making digital events tangible and perceptible by connecting them to a physical event or representation. His work spans across the domains of media art and academic research including workshops and exhibitions at events such as Siggraph, ISEA and Arts Electronica. Equally adept at the interface design, technology development, concept and exhibition aspects of media arts projects.

ref: Coin-operated website


Joshua Davis
Inspired by Jackson Pollock, Davis is an experimental and highly successful web designer who works with chaos and chance as a major element of his design process. Credited as illustrator, author, artist, coder and designer on many projects. Also known for his praystation project that made public his studio process (before weblogs were mainstream) and source code for many creative projects.

ref: art meets commerce in the BMW Z4 Coupe