Intermedia Art

New Media, Sound and Performance

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53  Entries

Screening Circle, Andy Deck
Text by Alison Colman on Andy Deck’s Screening Circle, as he explores the theme of collaborative creativity, through the metaphor of the quilting bee.
Detail from Heath Bunting's map of A Terrorist
Heath Bunting maps the relationships evident between recent legislation, commerce and systems of control as part of his ongoing Status Project.
Young-Hae Chang
Text by Mark Tribe, commenting on the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries and their commission for Tate, The Art of Sleep
Andy Deck

Andy Deck Interview

Interview
2006
Andy Deck interview - discussing his work, Screening Circle
Matthew Fuller explores the emergence of Net Art.
Blessed Bandwidth

Blessed Bandwidth

Net Art
2003
Net Art Commission by Shilpa Gupta reflecting on the world as divided by faith. The site juxtaposes real and virtual worlds to encourage visitors to consider how these worlds might overlap and merge
Text by Johan Pijnappel on the latest net art piece from Shilpa Gupta, blessed-bandwidth.net in which she uses the medium to reflect on and intervene in activities and issues affecting global society.
Photograph from BorderXing

BorderXing Guide

Net Art
2002
This work by Heath Bunting comments on the way in which movement between borders is restricted by governments and associated bureaucracies. View documentation of his 12 month journey across Europe.
Graham Harwood
Text by Matthew Fuller on Graham Harwood’s butchering of Tate's website
Public Record, Ultra-red
Sadie Plant introduces work by Gustav Metzger, Ultra-red and Heath Bunting. Reviewing art and its social context.
Tilda Swinton, Remixing the Masters

Curing the Vampire

Broadcast
2008
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Tilda Swinton interview Gilberto Gil, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Larry Lessig and Elena Poniatowska on revolution, empowerment and technology
1100 000 Newspapers. A Public-Active Installation by Gustav Metzger 2003 T1+2 Artspace, London, exhibition view
Gustav Metzger enacts one of his newspaper works from 1962 which challenges the passive consumption of media imagery, for The Long Weekend 2008.
Battle of Algiers, Marc Lafia
Daniel Coffeen discusses Marc Lafia's and Fang-Yu Lin's The Battle of Algiers and the new context of non-linear cinema.
Text by Paul Bonaventura examining the role fiction has played in Susan Collins’s work.
Blind Drawings by Four Choreographers, Christof Migone 2007

Foursome

Broadcast
2007
A four-part Radio Art series by Christof Migone in which the artist translates Samuel Beckett’s wordless movement piece Quad, foregrounding incidental matter and the sonic by-products of visceral debris.
Tower of Babel, Jenifer Cross

Hearing in Tongues

Broadcast
2007
An eight-part Radio Art series by Sarah Washington exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness.
Josephine Berry discusses the emergence of Net Art.
Mark Amerika, Immobilité

Immobilité

Interview
2008
Artist interview with Mark Amerika discussing his mobile cinema project, YouTube aesthetics and Net Art 2.0

Kakemono

Text
2007
Text by Bénédicte Ramade on the work of Qubo Gas exploring themes of hybridization, ambidexterity, calligraphy, adventure and landscape.
Le Match des couleurs by Simon Patterson
Net Art commission by Simon Patterson exploring colour theory, its organisation and meaning - as part of his ongoing Color Match series.
Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin

Marc Lafia Interview

Interview
2006
Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin interview - discussing their work, The Battle of Algiers
Marina Rosenfeld performance as part of Musiccircus

Musicircus

Event
2006
Musicircus by John Cage, featuring works by the composer as well as Marina Rosenfeld and La Monte Young, for The Long Weekend 2006, Tate Modern. Including an interview with Musical Director, Richard Bernas
Charlie Gere explores the relationship between Net Art and the cultural institutions.
Inlet Outlet by Achim Wollscheid 2006

Nonrepetetive

Net Art
2011
This sound artwork by Achim Wollscheid seeks to examine how the internet, as a site for interaction, dissolves convention, with regard to the shape, boundary, structure and location of media. 
Noplace, MW2MW

Noplace

Net Art
2008
Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg present Noplace, enabling visitors to construct their own vision of Utopia by drawing image and audio data from the internet and compiling it into a movie
Live performance recordings of compositions by Alvin Lucier and John White performed in collaboration with a group of emerging musicians
Googleplex, Lillian Schwartz
A screening of early computer animation from the 60s and 70s presented in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, for The Long Weekend, 2008
Microfall, Christof Migone 1992
Helen Thorington explores new contexts for sound and radio practice. An introduction to Radio Art works by Christof Migone and Sarah Washington.
Composite photograph by Francis Galton

Raqs Media Collective

Broadcast
2009
View or Download The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet. The prelude to a film installation, recently presented in the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain.
Point of Entry, Heath Bunting
Florian Schneider discusses Heath Bunting'sBorderXing Guide as an art project embodying a carefully calculated politics of public relations.
Screening Circle, Andy Deck

Screening Circle

Net Art
2006
Andy Deck adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle and the participative round table into an online format for producing motion graphics. Participate in its ongoing creation by contributing your own design.
Text by Lev Manovich on Golan Levin’s ‘social data browser’ The Dumpster in which he (with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg) manipulates portraiture, documentary, and new-media genres such as visualisation and database art.
Machine Vision, Steina 1976
Screening at Tate Modern Saturday 20 February, 2010 Highlighting early video works created in the 70s in conjunction with a presentation by the artists about their latest work.
Ryoichi Kurokawa

Synthesis

Event
2007
Live audio-visual performances by AVVA - Toshimaru Nakamura and Billy Roisz, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Sackiko M and Benedict Drew - feedback, decay, assemblage and kinetics. Part of The Long Weekend 2007, Tate Modern

Tate in Space

Net Art
2002
Net Art commission by Susan Collins, touching on matters to do with access, social inclusion, interpretation and the search for intellectual and moral authenticity.
The Art of Sleep, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

The Art of Sleep

Net Art
2006
Net Art commission by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Employing their usual mix of animated black and white typography, jazzy music and humor, the work explores the international contemporary art market from the artists' perspective.
Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin present a continual, interactive re-composition of scenes from the seminal 1965 film The Battle of Algiers, by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo.
Noplace, MW2MW
Text by Charlie Gere, in response to Net Art commission, Noplace by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg
The Dumpster

The Dumpster

Net Art
2006
Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, plot the romantic lives of teenagers, through a dynamic visualisation that draws its data from live Blog entries - an example of social portraiture, documentary and database art.
The Sounds of Christmas
Live performance recording by Christian Marclay, pioneer of the experimental turntable movement and leading artist operating at the intersections of art and music.
Le Match des couleur, Simon Paterson
Matthew Fuller comments on the work Le Match des couleurs by Simon Patterson, as an example of his ongoing Color Match series.
Live performances by Robert Henke (aka Monolake), alva noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Ryoji Ikeda. Ultra-minimalism in electronic music and visualisation for The Long Weekend 2006, Tate Modern
Hogarth, My Mum 1700-2000
Net Art commission by Graham Harwood, pointing towards (A)rt’s role as medicine and the use of aesthetics to negotiate social positioning, race, national identity and economic forces. 
Under Scan by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Under Scan

Event
2008
Public art project by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer involving hundreds of video-portraits projected into London’s Trafalgar Square. Contribute your own portrait at Tate Modern, 19 - 21 September 2008
Tony Conrad performance, Tate Modern

Unprojectable

Event
2008
Projection and Perspective: Cinematic performance and industrial-acoustic sound by Tony Conrad; recording of durational event at Tate Modern
X-Mission by Ursula Biemann 2008

Ursula Biemann

Broadcast
2010
X-Mission is a piece of video research on the extra-territorial status of Palestinian camps and the refugees who inhabit them.
A La Mode 1957, Stan VanDerBeek

VanDerBeek Films

Broadcast
2008
Four animated films by Stan VanDerBeek exploring collage, assemblage and cut-up: A La Mode 1957, Science Friction 1959, Breathdeath 1964 and Poemfield #2 1966
Under Scan camera tracking
Archaeologist, Michael Shanks, discusses public space and the world wide web as theatres of encounter
Qubo Gas, Watercouleur Park 2007

Watercouleur Park

Net Art
2007
Net Art commission by Qubo Gas exploring a virtual archive of collage work. An interactive graphic composition made of random drawn landscapes.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Ultra-red
Sound art series and public encounter by Ultra-red asking: What are the sounds of anti-racism? Part of the Triennial Prologues: Altermodern, Tate Britain 2008.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries interview
Screen grab from agoraXchange

agoraXchange

Net Art
2003
Net Art commission by Natalie Bookchin & Jacqueline Stevens. An online community focused on designing a multi-player game. 'Make the game, change the world'
xerrox, alva noto
A conversation between Carsten Nicolai and Daniele Balit. In context of an alva noto performance for The Long Weekend 2006, Tate Modern

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