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Digital lexicon is a project exploring the terms related to work using technologies. The first phase of this project entails definitions of the generic terms for art that occurs in this area. The major terms are listed below. These definitions are still being developed, so contributions are welcome.

 

"Electronic art"

Common term for art involving technology. Its lineage extends through Maholy-Nagy to the birth of modernism. Computer-based work only the latest incarnation. Not restricted to screens.

Association: Ars Electronica
Books: Margot Lovejoy, Frank Popper
Assocation: Centre for Electronic Art

"Hypermedia"

Relates particularly to hypertext and the creative possibilities of non-linear narrative

Book: Hypermedia. London: Taylor Graham (1989)
Book: Hypermedia Joyce Studies. Temple University and Charles University (Prague), 1995- .
Journal: Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 1992- .
Journal: The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. London: Taylor Graham, 1995- .
School: Hypermedia Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Department of Information Technology. Hypermedia Laboratory develop hypermedia software for mathematics education.
School: The Masters degree in Hypermedia Studies is a course for the artist-engineers of the future. Emerging from the convergence of the media, telecommunications and computing, the new hypermedia are changing the way that we work, talk and play. This Masters degree combines a rigorous theoretical analysis of digital convergence with hands-on involvement in 'cutting-edge' practical research.

"Intermedia"

Loose association of media without assuming connections between them

School: Arizona State University Master of Fine Arts (Distinctive aspects of the intermedia concentration include the specializations within it: video art, performance art, installation, audio art, mixed media works, and digital media.) 'our new mentality.'
Awards: Omni Intermedia Awards
Business: Intermedia, which employs object-oriented programming, uses a client-server model with a Unix-based system of permissions and user groups that allows linking to otherwise read-only documents.

"New Media"

Relates particularly to computer-based art that responds to the novel possibilities of digital media

Research: MIT researches "new media technologies"
Association: New York New Media Association
Government: New Media Fund of the Australia Council

"Digital art"

Synonymous with computer graphics, not time-based media

WWW: number of sites including computer graphics

"Interactive art"

Works requiring trigger of audience participation, usually electronically controlled. Emphasis not necessarily on new work, it can include interactive versions of earlier static art works.

Association: The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences was founded in 1996 after more than a year of planning by key members of the interactive industry
School: Interactive Arts emerged from the tradition of Fine Art at Newport. Staff and students have become excited by the creative potential of new technologies; particularly in the area of electronics, animatronics, telemedia and multi-media.
Conference: Interactive Art Conference (Discussion topics address issues facing interactive artists, and cover a broad range of interactive art practice including: computer-mediated literature, social sculpture, art telecommunications, electronic art, artists' books, public art, installation, performance.)

WWW: The goal of the project is to develop an Interactive Art Museum on the World Wide Web, housed at the Fisher Gallery, USC's own accredited art museum.

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