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Alternative Art Media?

Posted by Cliff on from the beyond-words-paints-and-sculpture dept.

Anonymous Reader asks: "I'm writing an article on how creative uses of previously unexploited media are changing the way we think about art. My current examples include Telesymphony, Blinkenlights, and the KTH lasershow. Do Slashdotters know of any other projects that should find their place in my list?"

28 comments

  1. don't forget by tps12 · · Score: 2

    Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers.

    Seriously, these kinds of things were cool when someone thought to do one for the first time, but it's getting old. And the "art" was never very good, just kind of clever.

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    1. Re:don't forget by Krelnik · · Score: 2
      Along the same lines, the group Man.. or Astroman? does a song called "A Simple Text File" that is just that....a text file run through an old Apple ImageWriter II printer. (It's on their album "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale"). They've even been known to perform it "live".

      As for it getting old, well thats the nature of new forms. It takes a while for them to achieve something more than novelty. Patience!

  2. oh, and by tps12 · · Score: 0, Troll

    fp

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  3. New Yamaha CD writer. by AntipodesTroll · · Score: 1

    Yamaha DiscT@2 is at least a rather new creative example of a media (CD dye) getting an artistic application.

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    1. Re:New Yamaha CD writer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      RMS-free software is like a Kenneth-Starr-free blowjob.

      Do you mean the blowjob is free of Kenneth Starr or that Kenneth Starr gives a free blowjob?

      Frankly I'll take either at this point.
    2. Re:New Yamaha CD writer. by pruneau · · Score: 1
      Your link gives a 404.

      They are not slashdotted already, so please could you update the link ?

      And gOOgles gives this, for examples. I assume that's what you are mentionning in your post.

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  4. Dear Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I've been assigned to solve a certain problem for work. I put in half a day of effort and got a few pitiful answers. I'm tired of doing the work, though, so please do my work for me so I can take the credit. Thank you."

    Anyone else getting a little tired of these Ask Slashdot questions? You're a reporter: go find the answers yourself!

  5. Wrong forum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And this is "News for Nerds", why exactly?

  6. YES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That was a good troll wasn't it? I'm proud of myself.

  7. Demoscene by Bastian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check out the demoscene. Not really previously unexploited media so much as using an existing and well known medium in an interesting way.

  8. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Do Slashdotters know of any other projects that should find their place in my list?"

    It should be "there".
  9. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    My current examples include Telesymphony, Blinkenlights, and the KTH lasershow.

    That should be "Blinkenlichten".
  10. Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    medii?

  11. Net.art by Florian · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could depart from this link page; particular recommendations: jodi.org, easylife.org, irational.org.

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  12. Synchronicity art by Krelnik · · Score: 2

    Some of the folks who brought us the old Pink Floyd / Wizard of Oz synchronization have investigated others, and some among them think this is a new form of art called synchronicity art.

  13. I could answer by inerte · · Score: 1

    If I knew what constitutes an "unexploited media". I am serious, I really didn't understand your question.

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  14. hmmm.... by RedWolves2 · · Score: 1

    The only thing that comes to mind is Homer Simpson's art piece after he failed at putting together a grill in his backyard.

  15. chicks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I knew what constitutes an "unexploited media". I am serious, I really didn't understand your question.

    I think he means like pictures of chicks where they actually keep their clothes on and don't bend over and show us their goodies so they're not being exploited. Yeah, I know, sounds pretty far fetched to me too...

  16. LHPO - Large Hot Pipe Organ by Krelnik · · Score: 2
    Not sure if this is a new media, but I thought it was cool when I first saw it. According to the LHPO web site: "The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ."

    Basically controlled blasts of ignited propane create music in giant pipes. Very bassy and loud.

  17. Gotta love TechTV... by EaTiN+cOfFeE+bEaNs · · Score: 1

    I was watching Fresh Gear over the summer, and they had a piece on a hotel in San Francisco (the name of the hotel escaps me) where they had a room where there were i think 5 or 6 plasma screens standing vertically with paintings on them. The cool thing about them is that not only would the paintings move, but they would "interact" with each other. That has to be the greatest idea for multimedia art I've ever seen.

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  18. the desktop. by nooboob · · Score: 0

    what about desktop customization as art? The computer is to the current generation as the hot rod was to fifties. Some wallpapers are real works of art, along with skinning winamp, litestep, etc. www.customize.org www.deskmod.com

  19. ready-mades by rodentia · · Score: 2


    Hey, Anonymous Reader, don't forget to start with Duchamp's ready-mades.

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    1. Re:ready-mades by Krelnik · · Score: 2

      I had to go look up what the heck "Duchamp's ready-mades" meant, and I assume I'm not alone. here is a link rodentia forgot to dig up.

  20. interactive media artists by redfood · · Score: 1

    Check out the work of Jeffrey Shaw, David Rokeby, and Chista Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.