The Invisible Environment: The Future of an Erosion

           In this article, it discussed the short history of the development of new media art that forms and turns into many different medias.  For example, from propaganda communication to electronic television, and then turning into video art. Followed by the computer-driven, data can be processed very rapidly and we move literally into the world of pattern recognition.

           

            Computer as artistic programing that provides the new environment, which is the environment is the contents as work of art.  It discussed in the article of that the role of art in the past has been not so much the making of environments as making of counter-environments or anti-environments.

            The example that the author gives to us is past turning into invisible. “One overall consideration for our time is to consider how, in the past, the environment was invisible in its operation upon us. New media are new environment. One related consideration is that anti-environments, or counter-environment created by the artist, are indispensable means of becoming aware of the environment, in which we live and of the environment we create for ourselves technically.”  This is like we are existed in the new word that we created, so after those new environment goes to past, the space of we created the new environment is disappeared and become to invisible. That is why we are followed with technology innovation that always discover new media and to create to a new environment.

            I think John Cage’s “Silence” example is the best example to explain the invisible space. He explains: “the silence consists of all the unintended noise of the environment. All the things that are going on all the time in any environment, but thing that were never programmed or intended - that is silence”. The un-programmed things are like the inactive elements that hiding in the behind and formed to be the invisible environment.