New Media Art Answers

 What is New Media Art ? 

1) Identify Techniques Used 

- Technology based equipment, 

2) Terms Learnt 

- Encompassing - incorporate, embrace and integrate. 

3) - Discuss and explain the plural meaning of ‘media’, what does ‘media’ mean to you?

- Media - form of mass communication ( social media platforms ) - Technology 

4) - How about Historical Media ? 

- Paintings and sculptures 

5) What categories make up ‘new media art’ ? 

- Everything and anything Technological (e.g camera, video, surveillance, video games etc..) 

- More recent methods - Robots, Drones, Go Pros. ( further developed technology) 

6) Analyse the impact of the invention of photography on other mediums such as sculpture and painting

- New Media art challenged painting and sculpture and became more popular as it grew

7)Describe Camera Obscura 

- early form of mass media production, image of an external object is projected upside down, inside through a small hole 

8) What is Cubist, Abstraction, Futurist ?

- Cubist - Focused on Painting 

- Abstraction - Developed by paintings from Cubist artists 

- Futurist - Technology Based 

9) Describe the movement Fluxus and who was involved ?

- technological advances in film and video to create multimedia art

- visual artists, writers, film makers and musicians 

10) List new technologies and their contribution to experimental and technological advanced media 

- Computers and WWW

- Advances in Military Defence technology in WW2 and Cold War 

- Also allowed artists to migrate easily from one medium to the other 

11) What is Obsolescence ? How does this relate to New Media art ? 

- challenges for production, presentation and preservation of new media art.