Feedback, feedback, feedback

     From the history that FEEDBACK, the exhibition, has show to the audience, feedback, as an important element of digital art. As Norbert Wiener implied in 1940s using “cybernetics” that feedback plays an important role in a communication system. While, at this stage, digital art could be a branch of communication system since a crucial part of digital media is to either take feedback of itself (earlier approaching by pioneer artists) or the feedback from the audiences (later approaching). Wiener also summarized that the three central concepts that were crucial were communication, control and feedback. According to the projects that have been mentioned, all of them could be take down to these three main parts that take information out of messages that are been passed through the open system.

    The article has given a brief idea of how each project in the history had been constructed which is very helpful to build our own project. The projects that are related to mixture of video and real time video taping of the audiences were pretty inspiring. It showed we could not only use the connect as the port that takes the feedback of the people, but also a camera that can combine the feedback and make the project more interesting.

    Also from the article we know that as well as any other forms of art, digital art is also connected to almost any aspects of contemporary social life and that made the digital art itself more thoughtful and added more value to the project itself. The relationship between the art and technology is also tight. As a matter of fact, it is the technology that brings the possibilities to the artists that let them do whatever they wanted to do, and I do believe that in the near future, with more developed technologies we could expect more diverse that the unknown (for now) technology could bring to the artists.