These are new media works from the period 1993-1994 exploring various theoretical issues related to hypertext, animation, digital archives and reader theory. They have been taken from archival optical media within the last five years and presented on gregorybringman.net in 2014.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 1994
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Feb 25th, 2015
- Original Url: http://www.gregorybringman.net/early-works/index.html
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Work Credits:
- gregorybringman, primary creator
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Artist Statement
These works are artifacts of a type of nascent digital humanities workflow made possible by lower cost animation systems around 1993-1994. This workflow was complemented at the time by methodologies of process art, conceptual art and philosophical investigation in which the computer filesystem was the perfect vehicle for solving (Lyotardian) problems of "presentation", offering these pieces to the user non-sequentially.
Each of the five sections showcased at the link provided above has introductory remarks framing how various theoretical concerns had converged at the site of the digital computer as a productive tool and general symbol processing machine. In many ways, philosophical concerns provided the raison d'ĂȘtre of these works, more so than an already established language of digital expressivity.