| valery.grancher on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:29:15 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> webpaintings history part 2 |
1- Prehistory of webpaintings: On early 80's and 90's some artist has dealt with computer concept and screen both on visual level and conceptual level. They did it at least ten years before internet age ! Artist Like Rainer Ganahl and Miltos Manetas have started very soon to deal with computer iconology and environment. Miltos has more dealt with the video game, the computer entertainment revolution and its iconology. Rainer Ganahl has more focused on language concept regarding computer by using the interface metaphor: Rainer has used the guidelines metaphor* He has dealt with it at the age when France was connected to network through minitel !!! (early 80's) For sure rainer Ganahl is according to me a crazy genius who has opened this door in visual art. Surf on these links to see how terrific are these pieces ! -http://www.ganahl.info/magers1990.html on 1990 with catalog and reviews -http://www.ganahl.info/dma_dallasmuseumofart.html 1992 view of an installation at Dalllas Art museum You may check also his first ever one person show only on the web at thing.net: 1992 NY - trash can and other computer items -http://www.ganahl.info/nordan92.html 1996: "les ateliers" in Marseille, France -http://www.ganahl.info/lesatelier96.html Kwangju Biennial, Korea, 1997 commissioned by Harald Szeemann -http://www.ganahl.info/s_ex_kwangju.html Without Rainer Ganahl, the idea of using computer iconology directly in visual art would never emerge ! On 1995 another artist called Philip Pocock has printed out a whole website for 'photography after photography' show. On 1996 he did an email reading performance in Berlin with email slide show. At this time, the web interface has not emerged. We can see that these previous work were so closed to webpaintings concept for one simple reason: both of them are dealing with interface iconology. But the web interface is just the son of the computer operating system interface. I have to say if you are just focusing about this point,you are missing another point. Because webpaintings are also dealing with painting iconology and not only computer interface... *J.C Licklider 1905 -1990 was one of the founder of the internet ancestor called arpanet. He has invented the concept of visual interface for computers. He has also conceived the first computer mouse to interact with the visual interface he conceived. He did this great job on early seventies. At the Begining of the eighties he got in the Xerox parc the visit of two major personalities in computer industry: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. We can say today that without Licklider 'windows' software would never exist, and the mac interface would never exist also. By conceiving this kind of interaction with computer on visual level with visual interface and mouse he has defined the concept of "HMI": Human and machine interaction. The visual interface conceived by Licklider to interact with computer program has brought the concept of what we call today 'guidelines': For example the main guidelines in Apple system is the apple icon. The icons abd menu in windows software are also guidelines. They help the computer interactor to navigate in the software. texte en francais sur ce lien: http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint/data/history.htm Valery Grancher http://www.nomemory.org http://www.nomeory.org/webpaint http://www.nomemorybazaar.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]