1. NEW MEDIA An Introduction

2. TRADITIONAL MEDIA Image, sculpture, architecture  Painting, drawing  Carving, molding, fabricating  Planning and building Live performance  Music, spoken word  Time-based  May integrate image, sculpture, architecture

3. TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Printmaking  Duplication of images Photography  Images from life  Duplication of static images

4. TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Plate from Animal Locomotion book by Eadweard Muybridge, 1884.

5. TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge, 1878. View as animation.

6. TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Kinetoscope: Developed by William Dickson for Thomas Edison, 1889-1892.

7. TRANSITIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Film: Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888. Earliest surviving celluloid film, recorded by Louis Le Prince (12 frames per second, runs for 2.11 seconds)

8. NEW MEDIA (DIGITAL MEDIA) Media technology combined with computing  Media technology: Signal processing and transmission (sound, image, data)  Computing: Use and/or development of computer software and hardware

9. NEW MEDIA A Very Brief History

10. MECHANICAL COMPUTER Charles Babbage (1792-1871) invented the first mechanical computer to tabulate polynomial functions. None of his designs were ever built during his lifetime.

11. ADA BYRON, LADY LOVELACE Considered to be the first computer programmer. Created plans for how Babbage’s Analytical Engine could calculate Bernoulli numbers. U.S. Department of Defense named a language “Ada” in her honor in 1979.

12. A VERY BRIEF HISTORY, CONCLUSION Computer Internet World Wide Web

13. NEW MEDIA GENRES  Digital art  Computer graphics  Computer animation  Virtual art  Internet art  Interactive art  Video games  Computer robotics  Art as biotechnology  …and more!

14. LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA Lev Manovich: Numerical Representation Eric J. Heller Shaurya Kumar Modularity Cyriak Android Jones Automation Aleph Null Six Sided Strange Variability Theyrule.net Google Maps Cultural Transcoding "Since new media is created on computers, distributed via computers, stored and archived on computers, the logic of a computer can be expected to have a significant influence on the traditional cultural logic of media......The result of this composite is the new computer culture: blend of human and computer meanings..."

15. NEW MEDIA Still image:  How does it compare to painting and drawing? Printmaking? Photography? Interactive:  How does it compare to film? Theatre? Still image?