Monday, September 28, 2015

Contemporary Issues in New Media!

Ben Grosser

- assistant professor of art and design!

- 10 years works with Beckman Institute!
- focuses on the effect of software!
- new media is media that has not yet become old!
- painting and photography used to be new media, now its old!
- investigation of the now!
- apps, games, interactive art, social media!
- understanding technologies (code, web, hardware, storytelling, performance)!
- through repeated exposure to technology they learn how to understand how tech
works and who technology is working for!

- study whether of not tech changes who we are and what we do!
- a lot of memes!
- practice based research (make new media in order to investigate how new media
works in the world)!

- crowd sourcing: using groups of people as a source of information (example

wikipedia)!

- technology can control what you do, how you do it, and where you do it!
- somebody app !
- technology challenges predisposition to the question what is art?!
- Citizen Four movie!
- students come up with ideas for apps and present them without actually making an
app. They present how an app might work without the app actually working.!

- teach how to learn to adapt, manipulate, analyze, understand