Artists
Artists
Interactive Media
In the 1990s, many artists experimented with interactive technologies such as CD-Roms, InterRoms and DVD-Roms as innovative tools for creative projects, including JODI, Tony Oursler, Zoe Beloff and Chris Marker. More recently, artists such as Michael Snow, Valie Export and Muntadas used these forms to create encyclopedic archives of their works. A selection of these artists' projects are represented here. Please note that a number of these works were created with software that is now incompatible with current computer operating systems. Please read the accompanying technical notes and disclaimers carefully.
Titles
Digital Snow is a comprehensive DVD-ROM collection devoted to the works of experimental filmmaker/artist Michael Snow. A virtual encyclopedia of Snow's works, Digital Snow features original interviews, video excerpts, musical extracts, rare documentaries and records for over 700 of his works. In addition to the extensive DVD-ROM material, this collection includes two catalogs with introductory texts, an outline of the main principles in Snow's work, content summaries, instructions, and more. Text in English and French.
Bilder der Berührungen features a full-length experimental film, Syntagma, within a digital sound-and-image-scape that includes film and video sequences, photographs, quotations and poems, drawn from Export's extensive body of work.
Writer Constance DeJong, artist Tony Oursler, and musician/composer Stephen Vitiello collaborated to create a haunting urban landscape that is inscribed with memories of lives lived, objects posesssed or discarded, and places inhabited.
In Immemory, his first CD-ROM project, French filmmaker Chris Marker charts a haunting journey through memory, cinema, photography, war and literature. Marker traces an itinerary or map of an imaginary country, with detours to Hitchcock and Proust, to arrive at a self-portrait.
"Untitled Game is a set of modifications, or 'mods,' of the video game Quake 1 ... [It] was made just as game modifications began to gain widespread recognition as an art form unto itself. JODI made the piece by altering the graphics of Quake as well as the software code that makes it work. Their mods reduced the complex graphics of Quake 1 to the bare minimum, aiming for maximum contrast between the complex soundscapes and the minimal visual environment."
This interactive CD-ROM was inspired by the Wooster Group's play House/Lights, which is itself based on a Gertrude Stein play. A playful philosophical investigation of how theories of perception and logic developed in relation to technology, Beloff envisions a digital media equivalent to Stein's radical restructuring of language.
