RANSOM & NEW MEDIA

Artists' statement from the program of the show:

NEW MEDIA ARTISTS MAINE (NMAM) is an association of new media artists. Each artist has chosen the mission of exploring the creative realm within their discipline/s to produce new media art, rejecting commercial influences and popular culture as an objective. The term new media art as described here refers to an art genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology. New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications, mass media and digital modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art, performance to installation.

The works presented here are as varied as the artists themselves. They are not always easily understood. They can challenge, provoke, confuse, outrage and even entertain. Just how they affect the viewer may not be immediately apparent. Much as we may not know the impact on our body of a recently digested meal, so a new media work’s effect may go unnoticed for some time. New media art, as all art, is mysterious. Ultimately it can only be experienced.. . .

The programs we offer consist of a selection of new media art and the presence of the artists who produced that work. This combination of the work being presented by the creator is integral to each program. The artists will speak about their method of employing their chosen medium (film, video, computer, other). This might involve using live action, stop motion, stills, animation, puppetry, found footage, electronic feeds, multi-screen, or a combination of techniques or other systems, which they have devised to produce their art. They will speak about the challenges and difficulties of being new media artists. Granted the mystery of art remains but our presentations hope to bring the viewer closer to the artists and their art.

AMANDA RANSOM

Faculty Siena College

Recipient Fulbright Fellowship,

Simon Foundation Award For Innovation In The Arts

Showcase Nanjing Museum, China

showed

MYSTERY BIRDS (2008), 12 minutes

Birds appear representing the unknowable forces that rule our lives.

VIDEO HAIKU (2006), 6 minutes

A video version of this traditional form of poetry, using seconds of footage to replace syllables of words.