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Museums of New Media Art

1) New Media Art Museums should effectively incorporate technology and information to create new forms of art that allow the user to interact with the art piece. 

2) There should be a sense in which New Media Art Museums differ from the traditional museum both in the way that it displays its artworks as well as what qualifies to be displayed as artwork. 

3) The incorporation of art and technology should flow seamlessly together in a New Media Art Museum, where the two serve to compliment and elevate one another. 

4) Artworks curated in a New Media Art Museum should allow for maximum user interaction and manipulation, decreasing the distance between the spectator and the artwork itself. 

5) New Media Art Museums ought to encourage the collaboration of new forms of art with existing forms of art. 

6) New Media Art Museums should display art that effectively uses some form of technology to manipulate previously existing information into a new presentation of data. 

7) Because New Media art is so interactive, New Media Art Museums should not be able to exist without the participation of viewers who in a sense, become a part of the museum. 

8) Within a New Media Art Museum should exist artworks that would not be able to be hung up and displayed in a traditional art museum. 

9) New Media Art Museums should cause participants and viewers to question what constitutes as an artwork and where the boundaries of an art world begin and end. 

10) New Media Art Museums should comprise both of digital and physical components. 

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HaRdWaRe – Marc Garrett 2002

http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/hardware/index.htm

This  is by no means an easy piece to swallow. Artist Marc Garrett transforms the secret data of a computers hardware into art, striving to expose all the dirty things that people look at while on their computers. His idea that the content of computer history simply reflects the human thoughts is a scary one indeed, and forces one to question what it would be like if someone were to look inside of our technological database. Pairing images with different parts of the inside of a computer hard drive, Garrett challenges the viewer to imagine their computer search history come to life. 

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Your sFace or Mine? – Reginald Brookes 2004

http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/26910/webpage/Reginald_Brooks/Code/Html/5face/netart6.htm

Brookes explores the idea of the perfect, and sometimes not so perfect, geometric features of the human face and how each part of a face can contribute so much emotion to the whole face. With the concept “The parts make up the whole”, this interactive artwork takes apart the human faces and replaces each part with various different renditions and recreations of that specific part of the face, allowing the user to create constantly changing and unique faces. 

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The Photographic Diary – Jimmy Owenns 2001 

http://www.dontstareatthesun.com/2001/photographic-diary/

“The Photographic Diary” is a journal of over 60,000 photographs over the course of one year in order to bring to life a human experience in a different way. Through this interactive form of one’s life, the project is able to highlight experiences that are significant and capture it in a way that is unique to photography. It becomes a virtual memory and diary that allows one to view very personally and accurately what happened. 

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Search by Image – Sebastian Schmieg

December 9, 2011

http://sebastianschmieg.com/searchbyimage/

“Search by Images” is a series of algorithmic and experimental videos generated by a compilation of images from the Google image search function. Schmieg starts off with an empty image and the image search acts as the basis of another image search. After this process was completed nearly 3000 times, all the images were complied into a video. The purpose is to get an idea of Google’s image database and their “secret” algorithms for how they conduct their searches. 

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Arts 12 Research Paper

Lanier, Ranciere, and Foucault all bring up important and different perspectives on the engagement between a viewer and a participant. This could be either between a viewer and an artwork, a viewer and a show, or even between two people with distinguished roles. Each calls to question the role of the viewer and how they are to engage with what’s in front of them, if at all.

Lanier explores the idea of “flatness” in the digital world, and the difference between the real and ideal computer. While ideal computers allow one to freely create whatever program they wish, an actual program cannot exist without a real computer that has limitations and rules. These real computers are often based off of existing programs and restrict the amount of freedom that a user has.  This is why Lanier refers to the ideal computer as a “flat” global world – people are able to create and program from the ground up with no previous boundaries or rules that they have to base off of. This “flatness” should be any opportunity for users to create something new, to expand their horizons and build a world of their own, which is what Lanier suggests should happen. Regardless of this fact, it seems that people like to just base their work off of existing art or media, not using the true purpose of ideal computers to create something that is completely unique and original.

Ranciere looks not at the relationship between a person and an object, but more the relationship between a person and performance. Dance or theatre, as an art form, would not exist without viewers and people who watch what is unfolding before them. In his work titled “Emancipated Spectator”, Ranciere questions the role of a spectator as a paradoxical role that can lead to one of two realities. He suggests the word spectator implies that that their role is passive and that they are unable to interact with the performance before the, and thus implying that theater or performance is dull and lifeless. The other reality is that the spectators are an essential part of the show and that it is “the living body of a community enacting its own principle.” They are a crucial in the whole experience of the theatre and the performance as an art, and therefore the art is dependent on them just as much as it is on the actual performance.

Foucault applies the idea of the Panoptic building to our everyday life. The Panoptic building, created by English philosopher Bentham in the eighteenth century, allowed an observer to observe people of an institution without those people knowing if they’re being watched or not. This gave the observers great authority and power because the inmates never knew when they needed to be on their best behavior giving the observer control over the behaviors and actions of those inmates. Similarly, this directly applies to our society today and how we are constantly being tracked and watched without our knowledge. Whether it’s where we spend our money, what we surf on the web, or what we’re doing at the shopping mall, we are constantly being observed. Regardless of if we are aware or it or not, society shapes our behavior in this way and is able to control what we do. 

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SEE YOU ALL THEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

One of our headliners for Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012 is IaMmE crew! They were the winners of America’s Best Dance Crew Season 6.

Members include Phillip “Pacman” Chbeeb, Di “Moon” Zhang, Brandon “747” Harrell, Emilio “Millie” Dosal, Olivia “Chachi” Gonzales, and Džajna “Jaja” Vaňková.

To see them perform in SoCal, check out Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012! It’s going to be this Sunday, April 29th at the Bren Events Center in UC Irvine. You can buy regular tickets or the VIP Package, where you can meet IaMmE + the other headliners, priority seating, and more!

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New Media Manifesto

New media is bold. New media is evolving. New media is innovation. New media is collaboration. New media is avant-garde. New media is challenging people to think bigger, think better, think brighter. New media is technology. New media is more than technology. New media is the accessibility of information. New media is the manipulation of data into more data. New media is the fusion of cultural conventions and software conventions. New media is, as Gere states, important for its capacity to reflect our current technological condition. New media is the transformation of old art into new art. New media is the manifestation of aesthetics. New media is what you want it to be. Or what he wants it to be. Or what she wants it to be.

New media is creating new outlets for art. New media is challenging the traditional view of art and the art world. New media is creating a new type of gallery and a new arena for New media is progression from the past. New media is propelling us into the future. New media is making a statement. New media is New media is what helps us engage with the process, not just the product. New media is pushing boundaries and drawing your own. New media is art. 

But how do we approach new media? Do we passively look at it? Do we engage with the software, the interface, the expressions, and the information? Do we categorize it into a type of art? Do we even see it as art? New media art is meant to be free and limitless, giving people the power to create and manipulate information. To change what they see and enhance what they know. It's not to be neatly hung in a gallery or filed into a taxonomy of art. New media art is meant to 

Gere

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Hey guys! If you haven’t already heard about Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012, I’ll tell you about it right now!

Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012 is a charity dance showcase. 100% of proceeds will be used toward Kenya Dream, a community based organization that raises money to renovate school and enhance students’ education in Kenya!

Our headliners this year are: I.aM.mE., Instant Noodles Crew, and Kaba Modern! There are other plenty of awesome local crews performing as well. Come check out the event page here for more info! If you attend UCI, presale tickets are $15 and non-UCI students pay $20. Buy your tickets from me and hope to see you there! 

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So...what is New Media?

Manovich and Borges have the answer to that! And even though they are quite different perspectives on the use and meaning of New Media, both help in getting a better understanding of this extreme vast and expanding area of art. Manovich explores the meaning and uses of New Media as an art form and his underlying point throughout his eight propositions is that New Media is a combination of cultural and computing components that provide new ways to access and manipulation information. Borges, on other hand, discusses New Media as a historical and cultural archive that allows us to access previous art works as well as preserve pieces that will be influential to our future development as a society. Through their discussion of the history, development, goals, and examples of New Media, Manovich and Borges help to paint a fuller picture of exactly what types of art fall under the arena of New Media. Interestingly enough, they both make use of a form of New Media in their articles that allow the reader to both access culturally sensitive information and view a “gallery” of information that they feel is relevant through the integration of hyperlinks. 

Hyperlinks are embedded throughout the body of their articles and help to point the reader to even greater bodies of information beyond the essay itself. The authors are able to mention a variety of different artists, art works, terms, and references without having to go into great detail about what they are because the reader can simply click on the link and learn more themselves. Instead of explaining what a photomontage is, they can simply include a hyperlink that take the reader to a site all about photomontages. This is the aspect of New Media that allows more access to information that Manovich discusses, as well the aspect of New Media that allows the use of computer technology for greater distribution and exhibition of information (second proposition). It also ties in Manovich’s second aspect of New Media that allows for the manipulation of information and Borges’ idea that New Media allows one to preserve information or work that can shape future generations. The links take the reader to very specific sites and therefore, allows the author to manipulate what type of information the reader immediately sees and allows them to shape their view of a particular topic. This collection of links, sites, and information ultimately becomes a “virtual gallery” of information on the topic of the article that people can later access. These hyperlinks affirm Borges’ view of New Media functioning as a tool for people to view certain information and even look back on it as a part of art history.

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Heiko Daxl

Born in 1957 in Germany, Daxl is a multimedia artist who has revolutionized the world of media art. After gaining a degree in media studies, Daxl set out to create a name for various forms of media art through two main projects. 

In 1980, he founded The Experiential Film Workshop Osnabrück, which was a film festival for experimental film art, which is an avant-garde style of filming that was popularized in the 1920s. This event later became known as the  European Media Art Festival and played a significant role in the history of this media art form. He was also the curator and director for several other art exhibits including the International Symposium and Exhibition for Media Art and The INFERMENTAL 10. 

Along with his wife and fellow artist, Ingeborg Fulepp, he began an influential exhibition series called Media Scape and have been working under the title mediamotion since 1990. Their work includes all forms of media art, such as film, photo, graphics, video art, and digital media. Since the beginning of their partnership, they been featured in multiple art exhibitions, film shows, and award ceremonies. Their unique work combining art and technology have gained them recognition in the artworld and have consistently push the boundaries of their art world. 

http://www.mediainmotion.de/mim_movies/s_movs/s_docu4.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiko_Daxl

http://www.mediascape.info/seiten/2007/daxl.htm

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Hey guys! If you haven’t already heard about Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012, I’ll tell you about it right now!

Ken-Ya Dance SoCal 2012 is a charity dance showcase. 100% of proceeds will be used toward Kenya Dream, a community based organization that raises money to renovate school and enhance students’ education in Kenya!

Our headliners this year are: I.aM.mE., Instant Noodles Crew, and Kaba Modern! There are other plenty of awesome local crews performing as well. Come check out the event page here for more info! If you attend UCI, presale tickets are $15 and non-UCI students pay $20. Buy your tickets from me and hope to see you there! 

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STAY WITH MEEE <3 I will be with you forever, girrrrl. :)

oookkaayy you are my only booboo <3

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tmarsuperstar:

butterfliesgoboom:

Gotta get down at formal.

This is awesome.

Yes. Win. 

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sad life

when I realize I'm tired of always hanging out with the boys and I try to think of some girls I can just kick it with and I can't think of any. 

dang it. 

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It's been awhile. 

And it's been pretty crazy how many blessings God has given me in just these last few weeks. After not getting the RA position, I won't lie. I was pretty crushed. But God, in all His sovereignty, was already planning a different path for me next year.

In just this last month, I have gotten called back for second rounds of interviews for every job I've applied for and God has graciously given me positions as a CORE Consultant for Dean of Students and as a Student Housing Advisor for Housing Outreach Services next year. More glory to Him. It is definitely not anything I'm doing, that's for sure!! On top of everything, being the advisor for Kenya Dream has been a wild ride with Ken-ya Dance coming up in 8 days. It's taught me so much and given me the opportunity to work with some pretty amazing people. All in all, I don't even have enough time to give God due worship before he blesses me in another way. And regardless of what happens with this last internship, He has already been more gracious to me than I deserve.

But.

Am I of this world? No, my home is in heaven. Then why does my heart keep desiring things of this world? As much as these blessings have caused my heart to respond in worship and thanksgiving, a part of me begins to strive after worldly success. "Come now, you who say 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit' - and yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes." James 4:13-14

Working with some really talented, ambitious and successful people has been quite the experience, but slowly, I start to desire and strive after the things they strive after. Career success, recognition, financial stability in the future. Relationships become ways to get ahead and job opportunities become resume builder and slowly, I find myself thinking of ways to get ahead. Anxiousness arises about my future and suddenly, I find myself lost in sin. All these blessings should simply be used as a means to glorify God, not to glorify myself. My hope and treasure is found in Christ, not in the things that I do and the ways I may succeed in the world. 

And in everything, God continues to show me how sinful my heart is. 

I know this is old school, but this is truly my prayer:

Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 

Proverbs 3:4-5. 

Word. 

On the other hand, look at these crazy kids I'll be living with next year.

teehee :)