Dr. Jean M. Ippolito

Books

• The Search for New Media: Late 20th Century Art and Technology in Japan Common Ground Publishing, 2012. : This book makes parallels between the process of production in traditional media and the reiterative algorithm in digital media within Japan's avant-garde of the 1970s and 80s. An exploratory attitude toward the abstract concept of the computer's virtual environment, and the inclination to see the algorithm as the process of art, may have its roots in these early experimental currents, which gives insight into the nature of non-narrative interactive and performance art in today's digital media realm of Japan.
• The Bridge: SIGGRAPH96 Art Show catalog ACM SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings: The art and interdisciplinary programs of SIGGRAPH'96, Jan 1, 1996 : Catalogue for the 1996 Art Show at the Contemporary Art Museum of New Orleans.
• Watanabe Kazan: An Artist and Political Hero Scott Education and Community Foundations, 2000. : Catalogue for the International Exhibition of art treasures sent from Tahara-cho, Japan, to Georgetown, Kentucky.

Papers

• "Time-Space Alterations: A New Media Abstraction of Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Aesthetics"

  Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Vol 53, No. 1, February 2020.

  The artist and scholar, Keung Hung, argues that traditional Chinese manners of approaching art can be abstracted through digital media, forging new interdisciplinary correlations. The artist posits that digital media can be used to shift the notions of time and space from traditional Chinese aesthetics into the contemporary art context. Co-authored with the artist.

• "Chinese Characters as Concept and the International Language of Visual Art"

  The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 2018

  This paper addresses the reality that a number of artists of China and the Chinese diaspora use Chinese characters in their work. Some of the characters are legible and some are not, but all are wrought with deep layers of meaning. The fact that the characters originated as pictures makes them even more relevant for the visual arts as an international language. The essay examines how the artistic and aesthetic roots of Chinese calligraphy serve as inspiration in the work of some of the contemporary artists addressed within and discusses the conceptual content of their work.

• "Electronic Media Art from China: New Visions Bring Messages from the Distant Past"
  Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press, 2015

• "Parody and Appropriation: European Art Traditions in the Digital Media Art of China"
  International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 183-190.

• "Blending Cultures via Computer: New Media Artists of China"
  The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 39-44., Jul 2013

• "Art Commodities From Japan: Propagating Art and Culture via the Internet"
  International Journal of Arts in Society, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 110-116.

• "Words, Images and Avatars: Explorations of Physical Place and Virtual Space by Japanese Electronic Media Artists" Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 421-426., Oct 2009

• "From the Avant-Garde: Re-Conceptualizing Cultural Origins In the Digital Media Art of Japan" Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Jan 1, 2007

• "Globalization and Teaching The Contemporary: Including Important Avant-garde Contributions to the International Art Arena from the People's Republic of China"
  International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 111-118.

• "Dare to Be Digital: Japan's Pioneering Contributions to Today's International Art and Technology Movement"
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Art and Animation catalog, Jan 1, 2005

• A Critical Analysis of the Computer Graphic Art of Japan using six case studies Ph. D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1994.

• Chinese Paint Pigments and Their Classification, with an Examination of Four Ming Dynasty Paintings at the Seattle Art Museum M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 1985.