Network Aesthetics

Celia Pearce

lcc4730

Spring 2009

William GibsonNeuromancer, 1984

What are the material properties

of the network?

Proto-Network Art

Electronic Cafe InternationalSatellite Arts Project

"A Space With No Geographical Boundaries,” 1977

Objective: To demonstrate (for the first time), that several performing artists, all of whom would be separated by oceans and geography, could appear and perform together in the same live image (The image as place). Everyone would see themselves all together, standing next to each other, able to talk with each other, and alas, perform together -- "A performance space with no geographic boundaries".

Electronic Cafe InternationalHole-In-Space

A Public Communication Sculpture, 1980

A live video link between Los Angeles and New York.

• ART-COM was a multi-disciplinary laboratory at Loyola Marymount University in which graduate students used performance as the mode of investigation to study and comment on their experiences of "living in" a composite-image space. Students also explored performing everyday tasks, and collaborative problem solving, and theatre skits mimicking life situations with their fellow students who were at a remote site on campus.

Electronic Cafe International

Aesthetic Research in Telecommunications, 1982

Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.

In 1984, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival, Galloway and Rabinowitz designed Electronic Cafe, which utilized a variety of communications technologies to link five ethnically diverse L.A. communities—ten years before the Internet.

Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.

"Local residents communicated with each other, creating art, discussing the world, and sharing words and images using the equipment.” -- Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994

Gumbo HouseSouth Central L.A.

Electronic Cafe InternationalElectronic Cafe 1984/Olympic Arts Festival, L.A.

"In a city noted for its geographical divisiveness, the project helped forge links between people who might not otherwise have become acquainted.” -- Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994

East L.A. Venice, CA

The Internet as Mass Medium

Tim Berners-LeeWorld Wide Web

First web sever, CERN, 1991

Marc Andreessen and Eric BinaMosaic, 1993

First we-browser

David BlairWaxweb, 1993

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wax/

ART+COM

Terravision, 1995

http://www.artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acprojects&page=6&id=5&Itemid=144&details=0&lang=en

Google Earth

Jane Prophet, Gordon Selley, and Mark Hurry

Technosphere, 1995

http://www.janeprophet.com/technosphere1.html

Bruce Damer/Biota.org

Nerve Garden, 1997

Robotic Garden controlled via Internet

http://www.telegarden.org/tg/

Ken Goldberg, Joseph Santarromana & TeamTelegarden

Maurice BenayounThe Tunnel Under the Atlantic

A virtual tunnel between Montreal and Paris

Josh PortwayNoodle, 1999

Network music collaboration

Lise Autogena & Josh PortwayBlack Shoals, 2001

Stock Market Planetarium

The Aesthetics of Community

StephensonSnow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1992

First web sever, CERN, 1991

ActiveWorldsLucasArts Habitat, 1986

Chip Morningstar & Randy Farmer: “Avatar”

ActiveWorlds, 1995

ActiveWorlds

OnLive, 1995

OnLive, 1995

DigitalSpace Traveler(Bruce Damer)

VRML

Bliss.comBlitcom w/ Celia Pearce (1997)

Time magazine Editor

Richard Stengel