Art History TASK 1

ART HISTORY TASK 1



New Media Art. 1990-2000


ART MOVEMENTS

• digital art 
• computer graphics
•  computer animation 
•  virtual art
•  Internet art
•  interactive art
• video games
• computer robotics

ARTISTS.
 i have looked at the following artists i found some of their work interesting and useful.
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/
http://www.coin-operated.com/
http://www.kakirine.com/
http://www.maryflanagan.com/
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/
LIFESTYLE
The 90s was a decade where more attention was drawn to standing out from the crowd.
FASHION
by looking at the clothing that musicians chose to wear for their music vidoes we can see where the various fashion trends came from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg  here kirt cobain wears lose comfy jeans and baggy tops with very practical shoes, they often mix dark jeans and shoes with more colourful tops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ by looking at the spicegirls the band basically sumerises the fashion in the 90s

LOCATION



EVENTS – TIMELINE OF OWN RESEARCH
 the main sorce for this information is here: http://www.90s411.com/
i've just taken some of the events that had a relevent impact within the media i have chosen and narrowed them down and added some of my own via asking family and friends who witnessed first hand the decade.

1990

· Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
· Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns.
· The World Wide Web is created with the first web browser.
· Photoshop was launched starting the beginning of a whole new art form.

1991

· IRA forces attack the residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain with mortars.
· The United States enacts Operation Desert Storm, destroying the Iraqi army and ending the Gulf War in a few short weeks.
· Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest makes sensational headlines as the details of his gruesome acts are revealed.
· Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines, killing over 300 people in one of the largest volcanic events ever recorded.

1992 

• The European Union comes into being with the signing of the Maastricht Treat in the Netherlands, creating the Euro currency and triggering a major shift in internal border policies on the continent and in Great Britain. 
• A major earthquake in Turkey, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, takes 500 lives. 
• The first widely-distributed version of the Windows operating system for PC, Windows3.1, is released. 
• Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president of the United States.

1993

•          Russian president Boris Yeltsin and his American counterpart George H. Bush sign the START II nuclear weapons treaty, pledging to reduce the number of missiles held by both superpowers.
•          A car bomb is detonated in the parking garage of the World Trade Centre, causing over 1,000 casualties.
•          Personal computer technology takes a major step forward with the release of the Intel Pentium chip.
•          The World Wide Web goes public.

1994

• The Channel Tunnel, an undersea rail link between England and France, opens for passengers for the first time. It is the longest sub-oceanic tunnel in the entire world.
• Kirt Cobain commits suicide.
• OJ Simpson is arrested for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her male companion Ronald Goldman, sparking media frenzy over the trial.
• The Provisional Irish Republican Army, a terrorist organization focused on Irish independence, announces a ceasefire that will last almost 2 years.

1995

• Kevin Mitnick, computer hacker, is captured by the FBI.
• Yahoo!, the popular search engine, web directory and email service is founded by Jerry Wang and David Filo.
• Ebay the online auction site is founded.
• Prime Minister of Israel, is assassinated after winning the Nobel Peace prize the year before.

1996

• 16 children and a teacher are murdered by a single gunman at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland.
• Prince Charles and Princess Diana complete their divorce, ending a scandal-soaked era in British royalty but opening a new chapter in the press' vilification of the Princess.
• Mad Cow Disease breaks out in the UK.
• The IRA explodes bomb on June 15th  in the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester.

1997

• Princess Diana Spencer died in a car crash in paris.
• Hong Kong is no longer ruled by the United Kingdom as China is given control of the powerful economic center.
• Microsoft becomes the worlds most valuable company valued at $261 billion dollars
• Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1998

• The Search Engine Google is founded.
• Windows 98 released by Microsoft on the 26th June 
• Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
• Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

1999

• Napster, a file-sharing application that allows millions of people to trade music and movies digitally over the internet is first made available. The program would highlight the growing copyright concerns of the music industry and spark a revolution in music distribution.
• Nelson Mandela steps down as president of South Africa, ending his reign as the country's first black head of state.
• UK forces take part in the air war with Yugoslavia and the consequent multinational force in Kosovo.
• Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly inaugurated.