Electronic Art
dha...@zac.riv.csu.edu.au
Here in a smallish (50,000) country town in Australia in a university that
spends more time teaching animal husbandry than it does art history we run
a brand spanking new major called Electronic Art. We already have an arts
school which does rather craft oriented stuff like jewellery and ceramics
but has a fine arts major and a Television production major. The computing
school, an information sciences course to be correct, povides us with access
to the nets (obviously) and teaching labs that include 486s, macs, mainframes
(DEC VAX and others), some rather posh workstations and a couple of rooms full
of Amiga 2000's. All these P.C labs run on novelle LANS.
So we end up with an arts school mentality coupled with professional television
production facilities, 2 16 track recording studios, SMPTE timecode based video
and audio editing and rooms full of Amiga's.
What do we do? Well we are new but so far I spend a lot of time talking about
John Cage (I specialise in Audio) and the likes, we play about with reiteration
and cellular automata, MIDI, we emphasise performance, multi media works and
generally have a good time.
Why do I post. INPUT, INPUT, INPUT. We are always looking for works by other
electronic artists be it computer, video, audio or whatever. We are highly
interested in entering into interactive discussion about the genre, techniques,
forms, exhibitions any thing that enhances electronic arts both in our small
environment and the world in general.
CYBERSPACE. Love that word. The use of the networks (in this case AARNet
linked to Internet) for both communication and the creation of Cyberart forms
is highly interesting as well.
I attended the 3rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts in Sydney last
year and gained much inspiration but more is desired.
I would guess that we are one of the better facilitated Electronic Art
majors around considering our access to professional level video and audio
equipment. We are extremely interested in any contact with others in this
field and anyone interested in what we are doing. Electronic Art often gets a
dubious response from traditional artists who tend to say things like
"You mean computer graphics" or "you mean video clips for rock music" both of
which are and are not Electronic Art depending on your philosophy man.
Looking foward to hearing from you preferably on this grouip so as to try to
spark some discussion.
DERI HADLER
Ed Stastny
>Why do I post. INPUT, INPUT, INPUT. We are always looking for works by other
>electronic artists be it computer, video, audio or whatever. We are highly
>interested in entering into interactive discussion about the genre, techniques,
>forms, exhibitions any thing that enhances electronic arts both in our small
>environment and the world in general.
>CYBERSPACE. Love that word. The use of the networks (in this case AARNet
>linked to Internet) for both communication and the creation of Cyberart forms
>is highly interesting as well.
I invite all electronic artists to at least visit the FTP sites of OTIS
(Operative Term Is Stimulate). OTIS is a collection of visual
artwork...scanned photos, drawings, animation and graphics (computer
based/created works). A digital gallery. Dumping ground for
exhibitionists....persons looking to display their works. OTIS files
are echoed to BBSes around the globe also...hinting of digital
immortality. Data-images living forever as information storage
increases astronomically.
OTIS also provides for feedback...utilising the interlinking powers of
the network to bring like-minded folk together.
I don't mean to sound like an "advert" or anything, just thought it
should be said.
The reason I started OTIS is, as Deri said, to use "cyberspace" for new
things...(if not new, at least interesting). There are far too many
"porno" images floating around out there....it's time to force-feed
these net-izens with some originality and culcha!
OTIS provides an archive of images...and info on the artists who create
them. I encourage you all to contribute...and make it work. The space
is there...graciously allowed by the SunSite and UWI administrators....
use it, won't you?
...e
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Ed Stastny...ed@cwis.unomaha.edu or e...@sunsite.unc.edu [[ [ [[]] ] ]]
END PROCESS, SOUND N&A, OTIS PROJECT, MAGNESIUM SMELTER, ANT FARMER
Want GIFs? Want to distribute your own? FTP to: sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/
multimedia/pictures/OTIS) or 141.214.4.135 (projects/stmulate)....it's FUN!