Subject Through the History of Genres - Time for New Media
People often ask me how the new media films differ from, for example, the 1960's genre of short films; is there anything in common? I usually reply that for me it is a direct continuation of the history of genres. Also the subject matters have altered very little, as if they had only changed into new clothes. Only the production tools have developed among other things in the world. For artists this situation is of course intriguing as new tools enable many new ways for expression, while the tradition of the subject matter remains almost constant. As Andy Warhol once famously stated: "I paint anybody, anybody that asks me".
Indeed the subject matter has not radically changed; the world around us, landscapes, people, sublime, fused with everyday, souvenirs, memories, internal landscapes or visions, address in a critical as well as a poetical manner to one of the eternal questions of art - the place of human in the world of changes, is still intriguing artists. Some artists also portray these subjects by interlacing traditional imagery to digital animation. This approach may also sometimes provide with a see-saw of calm and terror, containing the imaginary moment, distance and characters into an accelerating visual torrent.
In the current world of new media the instruments to realise and experience art are developing faster than ever. In the very near future it could become a fashion to collect and exhibit new media art also in a domestic context. It could also be possible that the owners of such art could easily, literally, enter the worlds of such work, become the subjects in this new art. Imagine the new subject - you, as well as original the subjects of artwork, confronting each other in the space-time continuum of the new media art.
It may blow your mind!
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Who do you think is the leading New Media Artist at the moment?
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- DavidKnight DavidKnight Jan 20, 2009 @ 10:34 am
- It blows mine!! Like the quote from Cage, personally my favourite is the one that goes on about boring things...
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