Hi Marc, This may be a bit commercial, but Marc Canter, the creator of Macromind, later Macromedia, later bought out by Adobe, invented the software Director (replacing Hypercard), which in its day (late 1980s), was one of the first commercially available “Artware” applications for creating digital multimedia. There is an article by Marc in my book, Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, and here is an excerpt from the book’s Website:
Authoring software should aim to shorten the feedback loop between the computer and the user – between the idea itself and its actualization. The overall outcome is a more direct connection to creativity for the user.” – Marc Canter At the core of his approach was a notational system that looks quite similar to a musical score, an intuitive format that could be used easily by the artist. Canter saw the digital artist of the future as a "composer" of all forms of media, orchestrating fragments of graphics, animation, text, and sound, into a single artwork. His predisposition towards theater and music belies Canter's roots in live performance, and reinforces his vision that desktop multimedia would evolve into the digital Gesamtkunstwerk. http://w2vr.com/timeline/Canter.html Best, Randall From: <[email protected]> on behalf of marc garrett <[email protected]> Reply-To: Marc Garrett <[email protected]>, NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 7:59 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Artware -- me want more info!-) Hi all, a question... I'm currently writing about 'Artware', for my PhD and this (of course) includes Furtherfield's own particular networked in praxis projects, but I especially wanted to include other historic examples. If you have any texts that discuss the term or give artistic examples that are accessible -- I'd love to know about them -- much thanks for your time. Marc P.S. And yes, I do have a link to Saul's text written on the subject in 99 -- Marc Garrett Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor ofFurtherfield. Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Furtherfield Gallery & Commons, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ T +44(0)208 802 1301/+44(0)208 802 2827 M +44(0)7717 887923 www.furtherfield.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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