Janet Cardiff Janet Cardiff is an installation artist based in Canada and also lives in Germany with her husband, and collaborator, George Bures. They’re best known for their multi-media installations that involve the use of audio to submerge the audience in narrative and acoustic environments that are meant to tell a story and transport the…

Janet Gardiff

In Janets works she really makes her audience feel as if the situation that they are listening to is actually going on while they are there. She makes her audience feel a certain way while she is talking to them and telling them exactly what they should be thinking. I like how by hearing her…

Gunther and Matthews

The first new media artist I found was Jake Matthews. He is a motion graphic designer. I love the vibrant colors and even flow of his work. He has helped out with artwork in commercials for various companies such as Aldi, Miller Lite, GM, and other television shows and Internet sites. www.jakematthews.com Another new media…

Lichtenstein and Sollfrank

In the reading of Art in the Age of Digital Distribution, an artist that I enjoy looking at his artwork is Roy Lichtenstein. His Pop Art reproduced like it was in comic books, and the use of using primary colors to make his artwork standout. In 1962 his painting “Blam” he  shows an airplane getting…

Lichtenstein/Kac

One artist that caught my eye was Roy Lichtenstein, a man who created comic book-inspired works on various mediums. Lichtenstein’s work is considered to be some of the earliest examples of pop art. I studied his piece ‘Whaam!’, which was inspired from an image in DC Comic’s All-American Men of War, and is also arguably one…

Digital Age Artists: Eduardo Kac and Graham Harwood

By Angela Zarek After reading the article, Art in the Age of Digital Distribution, the first artist I became interested in and researched was Eduardo Kac. After noticing in the article, he had a work, Rara Avis, which combines the robotics into the form of a bird. It was an interactive experience in which viewers…

New Media: Natalie Bookchin and Michael Mandiberg

by Carlos Cuevas While reading Art in the Age of Digital Distribution, one artist that caught my attention was Natalie Bookchin. Bookchin creatively utilizes the strategy of appropriation, borrowing elements to create something new, in her work. Upon researching some of Bookchin’s work, I came across Zorns Lemma2. Zorns Lemma2 is a 12 minute remake of…

Two Mentionable Artists

Ashley Villagrana, for AD 100  One of the spectacular notable New Media artists was Cory Arcangel who created a cartridge that was related to another cartridge game idea. The name of it was Super Mario Clouds of whom the other artists with Cory developed a game where it would only show the cloud and sky…

New Media Artist Research

One artist mentioned in “Art in the Age of Digital Distribution”that interested me was Mark Napier. Napier’s interest in internet-based works is what grabbed my attention. The thing about the internet is that it is accessible by millions of people all around the world. Through my extended research of Napier I came across his “Digital Landfill” project.  The…

Hannah Höch and Michael Mandiberg

While reading Art in the Age of Digital Distribution, I came across Hannah Hoch who was sort of a familiar name to me. Hannah Hoch was a dadaist who was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage involved gluing images onto paper and creating full images made out of cutouts. Hoch who was influenced by…

New Media: Two Artists and Their Work

          While reading Art in the Age of Digital Distribution, one of the artists who I became interested in researching was Allan Kaprow. Known for his revolutionizing contributions to art in the 1960s, Kaprow is especially remembered for his “happenings”. His works go beyond the traditional canvas work and focus greatly on…

Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin, an installation artist who started in the 1960s, is most closely tied to the light and space movement. His work deals directly with light and space. As he himself puts it: “It’s about everything existing in a context.” He believes that art plays a role in which it changes our perception. The goal…