Digital 3D Objects
Oliver Laric's "Venus Chiding Cupid" at The Collection Museum
In Lincoln's The Collection Museum, one can find a collection of 3D scans that Oliver Laric has put on display of real world objects. This collection can be found here. On rhizome.org, Laric and his work is described as follows:
Oliver Laric's work games the semiotic relationships that images collect in the midst of the fluidly shifting contexts of the internet age. Laric regularly employs found imagery and easily reproducible, often corporate, objects to create his installations, sculptures and videos. Authorship and authenticity is among Laric's primary concerns. His work finds its place: iterations standing out from the milieu of information circulating online.
His use of 3D digital objects as copies of real-world objects corresponds well with the relationship between the relationship between the digitally-globalized internet and the physical world as explored by The Telegarden.
Networked Art
The Telegarden Robotic Arm
The Telegarden, briefly explored in New Media Art by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana and detailed further here, "was an art installation that allowed web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Anyone online could plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm."
The best conceptual description of the project was outlined on the previously-linked paged as:
In linking their garden to the World Wide Web and creating an intuitive interface for the control of the arm and camera, the artists transformed what most would consider a fit of over-engineering into a subtle rumination on the nature of the Commons. -- Peter Lunenfeld, Flash Art, XXIX, 187, March 1996.
These two examples of New Media Art explore the relationship between the physical, digital, and social aspects of new media. Laric's allowance of the reuse of The Collections' 3D scans and the social element of the Telegarden and its relation to the idea of the Commons exemplify New Media art both physically and conceptually.
In contrast to these physically-based new media art projects, the following artists explore the largely-digital realm of digital net art and hypertext narratives.