Sherman, Tom
5 records
Before and After the I-Bomb Bibliography
A collection of essays spanning three decades of thought and inquiry about art, culture and nature in the information era.
Granular Synthesis Bibliography
Granular Synthesis
Memory and Hope (1996-2006) Bibliography
Sherman presented this talk, adapted for the New York State Media Festival at Syracuse University in April 1996, arguing that memes will drive cultural evolution and that emerging digital technologies form extended phenotypes. He traced media and network milestones from 1966 to a projected 2006 (ARPA Net, Betamax, CNN, IBM PC, NSFnet, WWW, Bell Core video) and discussed video art, analog-to-digital transitions, real-time digital ambitions, and video-on-demand. He described his involvement with an Ars Electronica think-tank, a 1979 TV Ontario episode, the Canada Council Computer-Integrated Media grant (1983) and curating digital works for the 1986 Venice Biennale, and he urged attention to personal agents, encryption and the integration of human emotion into digital media.
Reflecting on the Future of Video Bibliography
Tom Sherman (Department of Art Media Studies, Syracuse University) contributes a 1991 essay, commissioned by Montreal curator Rene Baert, surveying video as technology, art and environment and tracing formats from 1/2" reel-to-reel and 2" broadcast gear through 3/4", Betacam, consumer VCRs/camcorders and 8mm to desktop digital video, video-computers and chip cameras. He analyses roles of engineers, artists and institutions, funding via government grants and equipment manufacturers, distribution, exhibition and archival decay; and he predicts fragmented home audiences with growing elderly demand, interactive digital indexing and increased commercial exploitation alongside persistent access constraints for artists.
The Premature Birth of Video Art Bibliography
The Premature Birth of Video Art An investigation of the first portapack in the US.