Come and join us in the opening of
SAMPLING TRADITION: THE OLD IN NEW MEDIA
An Exhibition of Interactive Installation
At the E-Gallery
13th May 2009 (Wednesday)
3:00 p.m.
http://resamplingthetradition09.wordpress.com/
RE is an exhibition of 6 interactive installations that respond to the visitor through playful and innovative interfaces involving touch, motion, sound, and pressure. These new media artworks produced by students from MMD2133, shows how technology can be used as a tool and as a medium, combining with creativty to produce powerful, memorable and enjoyable experience. But what is new media art anyway? If there is ‘new’ media art, doesn’t it suggest an ‘other’, ‘old’ media category?
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin are among the many media theorists who argued that the ‘new’ in new media is in fact not new. New media depends on its predecessors for context and significance. Their term ‘remediation’ thus describes the process whereby new media borrows from/ depends on/ refashions older media. We can argue that new media arts achieve their cultural significance by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as painting, photography, film, and television.
These installation projects ‘remediate’ in this sense by bring into traditional art practices such as painting, sculpturing, and musical composition etc. In this regards, digitization process is an active mediator that transform, translate, distort and modify the ‘old’ into the ‘new’.
RE reveals a relationship with earlier modes of cultural practice yet implicates one of the many attitudes to embrace technology, in weaving the cultural fabric.
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