Digital Art

Read from Digital Art: Chapters Intro-3. In your blogs, research two relevant figures/artists/artworks referenced from each chapter and share your findings. Do NOT copy and paste from Wikipedia. Demonstrate your research, processing, and responses to their roles/contributions/artworks. Images/Source URLs/multi-media posts encouraged.

Intro

Douglas Davis orchestrated a performance via satellite telecast to over 25 countries. He took part in one of the first international satellite telecasts with his live performance The Last Nine Minutes. Along with himself, Nam June Paik a couple other artists preformed. I think that this was the beginning of the digital age because Davis wanted his art to reach as many people as possible at once. He was one of the first to utilize satellite telecasting in an art performance piece. 

Keith Sonnier's Send/Review Satellite Network was the first artistic project to connect groups of artists via public satellites. There are two parts to the project: Part 1 studies the politics of using satellite networks for two-way communication for the public instead of controlled by large industries and mass media. Part 2 takes a live, interactive, satellite feed that stretches between NYC and San Francisco and lasted about 15 hours total. The point of this project was to express concerns about peoples right to access satellites. 




Chapter 1





Chapter 2





Chapter 3