<ALT> DigitalMedia
American Museum of the Moving Image

Closing May 2, 2004

Introduction

<ALT> DigitalMedia opened to the public on November 27, 2002 with sixteen new-media projects. Work will be added on a regular basis beginning March 1, 2003. Thursday-evening artists talks and screening programs will be scheduled through-out the run of the exhibition.

All of the works in <ALT> DigitalMedia suggest new approaches to, and uses of, the computed moving image. They arise from the need of the makers for creative expression, rather than from an interest in innovation for its own sake.

Whether they are called artists, designers, or engineers, the digital media practitioners represented here are providing alternatives to mainstream videogames and commercial websites. They are working within the fields of fine arts, design, academia, commercial media and game production, or defining fields of their own.

Some of these makers eschew the narrowing pool of commonly-used software authoring tools, working instead with 'low-level' programming languages, or tools of their own creation. Others may use existing tools, but advance their form - and often the tools themselves - through creative adaptation.