Introductory Workshop On Media Arts/Disciplines

Overview

The intend of this section is not to present a complete taxonomy of all the disciplines, but to define the most used ones.

Video Art

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. ((It should not however be confused with television or experimental cinema). Video art saw its heyday during the 1960s and 1970s, but has exerted an influence to the present.

Electronic Performance

Transgenic Art

Term coined by Eduardo Kacs that define the manipulation of genetical codes on a live organism that results on a living artistic organism.