New Media Art

New media is an art form that is everywhere and utilized by artists all the time. New media art is, in a broad sense, art that is related to or created with technology. Art involving audio, video, software, performance, visuals and text, animation are all forms of new media art. New media art is an expression of how artists are ever changing and adapting to the new technologies and realizing the cultural, social, and physical potential of new communication in our everyday lives such as the web, video surveillance cameras, wireless phones, hand held computers, GPS and so on. The possibilities of working with new media are endless in our technology hungry age. With each new form of communication, a new means of communication art emerges.
In thinking about what new media art is, I immediately think of how I have used it throughout the majority of my academic career at Mass Art. People learn through communication, therefore artists learn through communication. New media art progresses through collaboration and the free sharing of ideas. In researching and communicating an idea either through video, the web, or any form of technology I am creating new media art. I noticed through viewing various forms of new media art that this art form frequently addresses political consequence of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, and privacy. This seems to be an especially crucial aspect of new media art today because the times that we are currently living in.