Keywords

New Media:
  1. Any digital communication that is interactive and digitally distributed.
  2. The intersection of art and technology.

digital > digit > finger (from the Latin, digitus)

John Greyson and David Wall, Fig Trees, 2004

video-opera

Virgil Thompson & Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, 1928

Zachie Achmat

gaming

Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang, Puppet Motel, 1995

viewer > listener > reader > user

virtual reality/virtuality

Agnes Hegedüs, Memory Theatre VR

Jeffrey Shaw, The Legible City

embodiment/disembodiment

Lawrence Yuxweluptun, Inherent Rights, Inherent Visions, 1992

technological correctness

Stelarc

  • Fish Hooks
  • Third Hand
  • Amplified Body

obsolete body

cyborg: a human being who is linked to one or more mechanical/digital devices upon which at least some of his/her vital physiological functions depend.