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Hi list_members, my name is Sarah Thompson, a.k.a Aurora Lovelock, and since January this year, I've been attempting to develop some 'serious critical analysis of new media art'. It's a personal enthusiasm/obsession, I'm unofficial, not part of 'the media' but am working purely in *the style* of the media as a 'net.columnist'. Is this activism? i don't know, but i'm definitely a small producer. Having studied Computer Animation in the early 90's, in order to inform myself (as an artist) about computer technology, i would say that the language of 'new media' involves being able to write about the digital mechanisms: programming, networks, how graphic images are constructed, input/output devices etc. As Matt Locke points out, Lev Manovich is one of those at the forefront of this practice. His texts are based on digital structures and their aesthetic & social significance, e.g. "Database and Narrative in New Media Art", and "The Mapping of Space: Perspective, Radar, and 3-D Computer Graphics", of 1993, and "The Freud-Lissitzsky navigator" (brilliant) 'New Media', as distinct from digital art, seems to be where the digital processes meet Old Media, e.g. TV, radio, film, narrative(?), & at the moment I believe there is a media/art identity crisis taking place, caused by the partial crystallisation of net art and the new media industries. ... www.content-type.org.uk is inside the media<->art identity crisis, analysing patterns of production and techniques of dissemination. There _is a new vocabulary evolving & it's a complex & very rich mix. Which is why it's so good to see Crumb online. best~ Sarah >this is linked to something else that came up at momentum - the paucity of >serious critical analysis of new media art. when there is little evidence >of a critical vocabulary around the specific qualities of new media art, >the only tools you have left refer to the aesthetics of previsouly existing >art forms. that's partly why i'm enjoying lev manovich's 'the language of >new media' at the moment, as he is attempting to propose just such a >vocabulary: > >http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133741/ > >matt > > > >----------------------------------- >Matt Locke >Artistic Director >The Media Centre, Huddersfield >www.test.org.uk Sarah Thompson_Re: www.content-type.org.uk ~~~~~~format="flowed"