What does the term New Media mean and how has it affected the study of Art History during its growth in the last six years? New Media means many things to many people but simply put, it’s an open to semi-open community for interactive dialog and relationships. “[New] media […] is increasingly more a site of coordination, because groups that see or hear or watch or listen to something [that “something” in particular to this essay, is Art History] can now gather.” (Shirky) The New Media has become a type of social communications tool, used in the ever-evolving world of the Internet. New Media in its most popular form, Social Media became embedded in our culture sometime within the last six years. It has changed academia in numerous and varied ways, enough so that many universities have added the study of New Media to their disciplinary offerings. New Media has sanctioned a place within the Internet to establish a community of sorts that transcends geographic as well as academic boundaries that allows members of different types of social groups with certain interests to connect, collaborate and create. Through the lens of the academic discipline that studies the development of the visual arts, known as the study of Art History, we will focus on how New Media has lifted the curtain on this once somewhat obscure world of academia and carried it through into the world of modern technology.
At one time, the only means for a perspective student interested in studying Art History to become familiar with the various aspects of the discipline was to aggressively search library catalogs for sparse and scattered information that may or may not really delve deep enough into the matter. This is because; the truly illuminating information as w...
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New media art is redefining what it means to be an Indigenous artist in Canada. New media art is exploring a new realm of mediums and simultaneously fusing their history with them. The following paper will discuss distinguished artist who are shaping the future of Indigenous art in Canada with the creative uses mediums. Trailblazing artists includes KCs Adams cybors photography which explores the hybridzation of humans and technology , Barry Ace's Trinity collection which features the fusion of traditional beading with electronic components and Andy Everson who explores digital media with Northwest Coast techniques.
Even thought in the last years new activities and new research opportunities have emerged from the intersection between the humanities and the world of digital technologies, what we call today digital humanities, represents an undefined and heterogenous set of studies and practices that aims at understanding the implications and the opportunities that digital technologies can provide as media, tools, or objects of study in the humanities [1, 2].
Conversely, upon investigating the artwork’s factual information such as the painting’s context, the artist’s background, the genre and the school or movement associated with the painting, it is possible to obtain knowledge that combines objective information and subjective opinion, confirming that some degree of objectivity, albeit with our ‘cultural imprint’, is possible as an art observer.
Social media is a web-based tool that allows people to communicate, share interests and activities and consume information. There are many types of social media such as virtual games, publishing websites and communication websites. In “Connectivity and Its Discontents,” Sherry Turkle talks about how technology has taken over communication. In “Mind over Mass Media,” Steven Pinker talks about the growing controversies of technology and media. In “Reality is Broken,” Jane McGonigal talks about how games can bring a change to the world.