What is New Media Art? What is Participatory and Relational Art?

What is new media art? 

          IMMA: Irish Musical Modern Art 

          IMMA talk series- introduces problems and contradictions to media art.

         New Media Art

• IMMA exhibits artworks from artists who use media such as painting, photography, and video.
• IMMA collects art  to draw attention and describe a complex and contested area of contemporary art practice. 
• Media has many forms of communication such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the Internet.
• In the arts the media is limitless.
• Talks about how the word "New" is just a relative term in something first created by someone then replaced by something newer over time. 
• New Media is drawn from communication, entertainment, and information.
• New media is always a changing category from film, digital technology, and biotechnology.
• Great flexibility and versatility than tempera in the Renaissance era. 
• Development of the camera and print making for mass media communication. 
• telling us how the industrial revolution had a considerable influence to modern and contemporary art. (Photography and film) 
• Cubist artist focused on medium and structure of painting, challenging the illusory nature of painting and developed abstraction. 
• Fluxus artists use writers, film makers, and musicians to make film and performance. 
• conceptual artists emphasized the importance of the concept or idea of the material art object.
• The computer was a military defense technology,

What is Participatory and Relational art ? 

• Arts that practice emphasizing the role of the viewer or spectator in physical or conceptual realization and reception of artwork.
• Ex. Community arts, Activist arts, Socially engaged arts, and Biological arts.
• Can be interdisciplinary involving collaboration and a range of art forms.
• interactions documented in pictures, video, and text.
• informed by AVANT-GARDE movements.
• shaped by public art
• Relational art relies on responses of others.
• Alter-modern- contextualizing art in today's global time. 
• Post modern- late 20th century style and concept of art. 
• Raymond Williams- community offers dialect of solidarity and service.
• Relations between people and the way of aesthetic objects.