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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?"

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  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. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.