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Ed Bennett is the research specialist in the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ongoing Research
Technology created for people to use in making art has given us the various fields of New Media. New media tools are almost always personal computer based, either in the production phase of the art making process, or the presentation phase, or both. That leaves a lot of technology in this world which wasn't created for use in art making. It's like I used to tell Mookie and Stinky, "Most
things in this world are not for cats." Most technology isn't for making art. But sometimes it can be bent that way. Sometimes commercial or industrial technology is appropriated by artists to elevate the aesthetics of their work in a way that nothing else can. Artists create aesthetic problems and solve them. When an artist creates a problem which is technical in nature, but for which no commodified solution exists, a solution must be invented. This is what I refer to as non-media based technological art
making. The process can work in reverse just as easily. Some phenomenon may suggest an aesthetic context to someone who is inclined to think in that way. The creative process which follows would involve a "dialog with the materials" to negotiate effect, controllability, and finally, instantiation.
The Art and Technology department happily accommodates students who wish to use Media and Non-media based technology separately or in combination. Interdisciplinary work in Kinetics, mechatronics, robotics,
and physical computing are provided for in the regular curriculum (although not using all of those names) along side the expected forms of image manipulation, animation, graphic design, sound, and so on. >>> [ more ]
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