This week’s activities (week 0)
The icebreaker is a great way of getting in the mood and swing of things.
What digital culture means is a kaleidscope of imagery… My mind always wanders… I started off with the ‘Dog image’, then there was Pixar, Mandelbrot, Blade Runner, Human League’s ‘Being Boiled’ and I had to stop myself.
1984 was a pretty crucial year for me: I decided then that computer graphics was totally fascinating. I thought it would be a great way to enhance film and TV images, music videos, even make some original electronic art… I met a few people, Edward Ihnatowics, Harold Cohen, John Landsdown all inspirational encounters, and then there was Ridley Scott’s film based on an old time favourite of mine (Philip K Dick‘s novel) and the music of the eighties, influenced by electronics, which I still listen to most days now…
Max Headroom! Gina, do you know the work of Cornelia Sollfrank? I heard her speak a few years ago and found her work quite inspiring. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/this-is-not-by-me/ – it’s a little later than 1984, but your post made me remember her.
yes, I came across her through this book which is now available online (and in the ECA library)
I managed to get a second hand copy…(the physical is too hard to resists!)
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art#NewMediaArt-1.0100101110101101.org
Max Headroom for me is the tune I posted somewhere else. Back in 84 I was in Belgium and did not see the C4 TV show. But the video clip was a real hit and immediately caught my attention. That video material and some other ones resulted in me writing an article for an art magazine. Good old days!