Installation (Idea) 4/7

Defined

installation [ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən]

n

1. the act of installing or the state of being installed

2. a large device, system, or piece of equipment that has been installed

3. (Military) a military establishment usually serving in a support role

4. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) an art exhibit often involving video or moving parts where the relation of the parts to the whole is important to the interpretation of the piece

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Quotations

"On the day of his public installation he took off his insignia of office before the astonished notables, and, laying them one by one on the table, made them a profound reverence, and quietly withdrew."

Cranmer-Byng, L. "L. Cranmer-Byng: A Lute of Jade: Tu Fu - Free Online Library." L. Cranmer-Byng - Free Online Library. Web. 07 Apr. 2011. .

"An era in which we see ‘[…] humans in fact integrating with the fiction
of their imagination as conjured up digitally by the computer’, and in which ‘the
digital arts emanating from the cosmology of number are also a link between digital
finality and infinity imagination, defending man in his impossibility to be simulated’
(Weibel 1999: 222)."

Ribeiro, Clarissa, and Gilbertto Prado. "Complex installations: sharing consciousness in a cybernetic ballet." Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 8.2 (2010): 159-165. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 11 Apr. 2011.

Annotated Bibliography

Ribeiro, Clarissa, and Gilbertto Prado. "Complex installations: sharing consciousness in a cybernetic ballet." Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 8.2 (2010): 159-165. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 11 Apr. 2011.

"Considering this panorama in the contemporary artistic context, it could be stimulating to think about interactive digital art installations as systems in which the elements are both organic and artificial, both physical and virtual, interconnected like they were performing a cybernetic ballet."

This article investigates the functioning of digital art installations at a practical and conceptual level. The author develops a system of mapping the installation in relation to its parts, as well as its environment. Although I found the article very brief, I felt the author did a great job defining an installation as an art artifact, as well as a system through which a connection occurs and understanding is developed. The language used in this article was very interesting, and I especially appreciated the use of this quotation from "the Archigram’s architect David Greene’s in his 1969 poem, where ’[…] deer stroll peacefully/past computers/as if they were flowers’ (Greene 1969: 239)."
I find the article really important because I am trying to understand the design of a digital art installation by doing and have not before really researched the design and communicative elements of such systems.



Relates

This topic relates to my work because I am attempting to create an installation to communicate it. I used this opportunity to research what I am doing to become more informed about the media and the message it brings to the discussion of my concept.