Thesis Research

Source: New Media Art

pg. 7: “Deciding what counts as media technology is a difficult task. The Internet, which is central to many New Media art projects, is itself composed of a heterogeneous and constantly changing assortment of computer hardware and software—servers, routers, personal computers, database appliations, scripts and files—all governed by arcane protocols, such as HTTP, TCp/IP and DNS….

“Other technologies that play a significant role in New Media art include video and computer games, surveillance cameras, wireless phones, hand-hald computers and Global Positioning System (GPS) devices. But New Media art is not defined by the technologies discussed here; on the contrary, by deploying these technologies for critical or experimental purposes, New Media artists redefine them as art media.”