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Douglas Davis The
Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction or moralpornography.com
- part two"
Douglas Davis presented his pioneeric work in the field of video and new
media art as a theorist, educator, performer, and consultant in digital
media strategies. As an artist, he specializes in making new media turn
inside out--that is, do what it's not supposed to do (he makes video touch
you, prints speak, the InterNet lie down in your lap like a puppy). In
1994 he created one of the first works of WebArt to which both the general
and the specialized public responded.
Since the 70's Davis has utitilized both advanced and traditional
technology, including interactive websites, intercontinental performances
linking "real" and "virtual" sources, high-density
volumetric imagery,video-casting/installations, printmaking, drawing,
and photography, as well as post-minimal "objects" and installations.
He pioneered the use of the live satellite to create "long-distance
art" in the Houston Astrodome in 1976. One year later, with Joseph
Beuys and Nam June Paik he helped to create the first live global broadcast
of video performance art in 1977, for Documenta 6. He has taught advanced
media at more then 25 universities and art colleges and published numerous
books and texts on relation between art and technology.
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