Hi Danny
Mark Hansen & Ben Rubin are reviewing the sources of their landmark piece 'Listening Post'. As we all know the text-based internet it was created against has changed immeasurably and to prolong its life new sources may need to be considered.
Anthony McCall's 'Line Describing a Cone' started life in 1973 as, I believe, a hand held film projector being lifted manually and rotated to create a cone of light in a screening room where audience were advised to smoke to create a mist for the shape to emerge in. Now it's all rather different and a later, easier to preserve version exists in the Tate Collection http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mccall-line-describing-a-cone-t12031
The Wikipedia entry on its history tallies pretty well with stuff I've heard first hand from film and video artists from the time.
all the best
Hannah
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> Hi
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> I have a rather clumsy art history question that I'm hoping someone on the list might be able to help me with...
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> I'm looking for examples of media art works or projects that have changed their medium over time (or perhaps involve different forms of media simultaneously), for which specific forms of media are less important than their being made using (electronic) media generally. Perhaps something as simple as a longitudinal video art project that shifted from VHS to digital video; or maybe something where interactivity came to the fore as new technology became available.
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> This will highlight my ignorance of digital art history, but the nearest thing that I can think of by way of analogy would be the Grand Theft Auto series of video games, which made the shift from a 2D game to a 3D game while retaining the basic themes and objectives of the franchise - ie GTA is a recognisable series, despite the change in the type of game.
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> Thanks in advance for your help. Happy to summarise responses back to the list, of course.
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