Sunday, February 16, 2014

Internet Art: Introduction

The two artists that I found particularly interesting in the introduction of the book Internet Art were Allan Kaprow and Nam June Paik. 










ALLAN KAPROW

What I found most interesting about Allan Kaprow is how he incorporated the audience in his work. Kaprow is a pioneer of performance art because of his work that he called "Happenings". The term Happening was first explained in an essay Kaprow wrote as an idea that art should contain perishable material and that art doesn't need to be permanent.  These art pieces started out as strictly scripted events where the audience had to follow cues in order to experience the art of the "Happening". The viewers reactions decided the where the piece went. I love his mindset and the thought that beauty can be perishable. Kaprow makes a statement regarding the Happenings, "And the work itself, the action, the kind of participation, was as remote from anything artistic as the site was." I found it extremely interesting to learn that Kaprow rarely recorded the Happenings, making them a one time occurrence and unable to replicate.









NAM JUNE PAIK

Nam June Paik is very well known for his revolutionary work that fused digital media into a new form of creative expression. Paik realized the up and coming technology and transformed peoples perception on it.  "Through television projects, installations, performances, collaborations, development of new artists' tools, writing, and teaching, he has contributed to the creation of a media culture that has expanded the definitions and languages of art making." His work explored the many possibilities that technology and the moving image could do. He did this by altering the materiality and composition of an electronic image on a television screen. When I think of Nam June Paik I automatically think of the magnetic television. He discovered a way to change the image on the TV screen with the use of a magnet. Paik is known as the inventor of video art. 



















Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow
http://allankaprow.com
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/performance-art-101-happening-allan-kaprow
http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/allankaprow.htm
http://www.paikstudios.com
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/paik/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/obit/2006/02/nam_june_paik.html

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