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Artists created very diverse works on CD-ROM, ranging from virtual spaces to game-like experiments, from interactive music environments to literature and hypertext presentations. Within an individual practice | Artists created very diverse works on CD-ROM, ranging from virtual spaces to game-like experiments, from interactive music environments to literature and hypertext presentations. Within an individual practice | ||
CD-ROMs often have a very special place: sometimes they are a unique interactive 'exception' in the career of the artist ([[Laurie Anderson]], [[Michael Snow]]), other times they are part of a long series of works in different media ([[JODI]], [[Antoni Muntadas]]). | CD-ROMs often have a very special place: sometimes they are a unique interactive 'exception' in the career of the artist ([[Laurie Anderson]], [[Michael Snow]]), other times they are part of a long series of works in different media ([[JODI]], [[Antoni Muntadas]]). | ||
| − | There was significant production of artistic CD-ROMs during the 1990s in the US, Canada, Netherlads or the UK. Artists as [[Valie Export]], [[Chris Marker]], [https://www.residents.com/ The Residents], [[Zoe Beloff]], [http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Simon Biggs], [[Masaki Fujihata]], David Blair, Jim Gasperini & [https://www.burningranch.net/ Tennessee R. Dixon], Peter Gabriel, Alain Geronnez, Clive Gillman, Sophie Greenfield & Giles Rollestone, Paul Groot & Jans Possel, [[Graham Harwood]], Bill Seaman, [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]], Troy Innocent, Tamara Laï, George Legrady, Jaime Levy, Marita Liulia, John Maeda, Miroslaw Rogala, Antoine Schmitt & Vincent Epplay, Keith Seward & Eric Swenson (Necro Enema Amalgamated), Alberto Sorbelli, John Thackara, Florian Thalhofer, Luc Courchesne, Morton Subotnick, [[Linda Dement]], Suzanne Treister, Tamás Waliczky, published interactive works on CD-ROM. Multimedia publisher Voyager playing an important role, but there was a vivid scene of experimental small productions or by collectives and institutions including Antirom, ZKM and [http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/tips/cd/dir-titles.html many others]. | + | There was significant production of artistic CD-ROMs during the 1990s in the US, Canada, Netherlads, Germany or the UK. Artists as [[Valie Export]], [[Chris Marker]], [https://www.residents.com/ The Residents], [[Zoe Beloff]], [http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Simon Biggs], [[Masaki Fujihata]], [https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/wax/ David Blair], Jim Gasperini & [https://www.burningranch.net/ Tennessee R. Dixon], [https://petergabriel.com Peter Gabriel], Alain Geronnez, Clive Gillman, Sophie Greenfield & Giles Rollestone, Paul Groot & Jans Possel, [[Graham Harwood]], [https://billseaman.com/ Bill Seaman], [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]], Troy Innocent, Tamara Laï, George Legrady, Jaime Levy, Marita Liulia, John Maeda, Miroslaw Rogala, Antoine Schmitt & Vincent Epplay, Keith Seward & Eric Swenson (Necro Enema Amalgamated), Alberto Sorbelli, John Thackara, Florian Thalhofer, Luc Courchesne, Morton Subotnick, [[Linda Dement]], Suzanne Treister, Tamás Waliczky, published interactive works on CD-ROM. Multimedia publisher Voyager playing an important role, but there was a vivid scene of experimental small productions or by collectives and institutions including Antirom, ZKM and [http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/tips/cd/dir-titles.html many others]. |
==Artists and works== | ==Artists and works== | ||
Revision as of 18:01, 20 January 2025
The CD-ROM was a relatively popular carrier for interactive artworks in the mid-1990s.
At that time, the world wide web as a platform was not yet capable of providing the rich, immersive, multimedia experience that artists desired. Simultaneously, this period witnessed the proliferation of personal computers that came equipped with CD-r drives, causing CD-ROM art to flourish as a form of creation and distribution.
Artists created very diverse works on CD-ROM, ranging from virtual spaces to game-like experiments, from interactive music environments to literature and hypertext presentations. Within an individual practice CD-ROMs often have a very special place: sometimes they are a unique interactive 'exception' in the career of the artist (Laurie Anderson, Michael Snow), other times they are part of a long series of works in different media (JODI, Antoni Muntadas). There was significant production of artistic CD-ROMs during the 1990s in the US, Canada, Netherlads, Germany or the UK. Artists as Valie Export, Chris Marker, The Residents, Zoe Beloff, Simon Biggs, Masaki Fujihata, David Blair, Jim Gasperini & Tennessee R. Dixon, Peter Gabriel, Alain Geronnez, Clive Gillman, Sophie Greenfield & Giles Rollestone, Paul Groot & Jans Possel, Graham Harwood, Bill Seaman, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Troy Innocent, Tamara Laï, George Legrady, Jaime Levy, Marita Liulia, John Maeda, Miroslaw Rogala, Antoine Schmitt & Vincent Epplay, Keith Seward & Eric Swenson (Necro Enema Amalgamated), Alberto Sorbelli, John Thackara, Florian Thalhofer, Luc Courchesne, Morton Subotnick, Linda Dement, Suzanne Treister, Tamás Waliczky, published interactive works on CD-ROM. Multimedia publisher Voyager playing an important role, but there was a vivid scene of experimental small productions or by collectives and institutions including Antirom, ZKM and many others.
Artists and works
Prominent publishers of CD-ROM artworks were Mediamatic (NL) and Voyager (US).
Contact Zones. The Art of CD-ROM by Timothy Murray was a travelling exhibition from 1999 to 2001 in which a large number of works was presented together. The exhibition website still exists and is an excellent record and source for several projects: http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/
Notable works are, among others:
- Doors of Perception 1 CD-ROM (1994) by Mediamatic - digital proceedings of the Doors of Perception conference.
- Architectonic Models I-XVI (1994) by Roland Kuit
- Cyberflesh Girlmonster (1995) by Linda Dement
- Amsterdam (1995) by Roland Kuit - Avenue Magazine, uitgave #5 VOL.2 Amsterdam inside out.
- Paris (1996) by Roland Kuit - Orbe Magazine, music machines.
Events
- Welcome to the Future! exhibition, iMAL, Brussels, 2015.
- [1]cd-rom cabinet, by Annet Dekker, Sandra Fauconnier, 2013
- [2] CD-Rom: Burning the Interface exhibition by Mike Leggett & Linda Michael, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), 1996
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