NMR: Intro II

--From the first few paragraphs I can already tell I like this one better. The language isn't half as snotty or hard to understand.

--History of new media

-SIGGRAPH & Ars Electronica since 1970's

-The field began to really take shape in the 80's

-1995 art schools in the US began to integrate new media programs

--Other countries are slower to accept different types of new media and therefore think about them more critically

--Art & new media worlds are opposites for many reasons (bottom left pg 14)

--Parallelism between texts by artists & computer scientists, computer technology & modern art

--8 Ideas of What New Media Is

1. It is not cyberculture--focused on culture

2. A useful theoretical category

3. Digital data controlled by software

4. A combination of cultural conventions and the software

5. A stage in a new technology's development.

6. Something that gives us the ability to create or process data faster

7. a translation of the avant-garde into computer code

(Side note: The grammar in the titles of these sections is TERRIBLE.)