"Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has, for a long time, been seen as a rather suspect anti-artist whose Dada- inspired playfulness offered nothing to the serious, committed artist or art-lover. Recently, however, his name has been dropped regularly by such contemporary luminaries as Damon Hirst (himself no stranger to controversy) and recognised as the inspiration for numerous important artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robe ..."
"Artintact combines the traditional book format with CD-ROM technology where scholarly writings and illustrations on paper accompany and exhibit the interactive art works presented on the disc."
"... a narrative structure to a linear hypertext, is not a technical cul-de-sac here, but
a correlated field of tension that is still open to interactions and interlinking of all
kinds. In this sense the y is seen as a free variable, as an uncertainty factor that is
not further defined, that keeps the system alive — in some way or other.. ."
Andreas Kopnick, cited in http://www.kuenstler- haus-dortmund de/deutsch/
aus04co-op5.htm. Th ..."
Video Theories A Transdisciplinary Reader (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics) by DieterDaniels, Jan Thoben Paperback, 601 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5408-3, ISBN: 1-5013-5408-6
""Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the ..."
Video Theories A Transdisciplinary Reader by DieterDaniels, Jan Thoben 600 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5411-3, ISBN: 1-5013-5411-6
"Consisting of a selection of eighty-three annotated source texts and twelve chapter introductions written by the editors, this book considers fifty years of scholarly and artistic reflections on the topic, representing an intergenerational ..."
Video Theories A Transdisciplinary Reader by DieterDaniels, Jan Thoben 600 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5410-6, ISBN: 1-5013-5410-8
""Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the ..."
"Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding ..."
"Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding ..."
"“Net art is seen as an archaeology of the future, drawing on the past (especially of modernism) and producing a complex interaction of unrealized past potential and Utopian futures...”―Julian StallabrassNet Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.The hype around Net-based art began in the early 1990s, before the In ..."
"Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHis ..."
"Das Buch The Readymade Century beleuchtet seine Readymades aus zwei Perspektiven: Der Readymade Index untersucht die Genese und Konsistenz von Duchamps Konzept in den ersten fünfzig Jahren des ,Readymade Century' zwischen 1914 und 1964."
"When Marcel Duchamp invented the readymade 100 years ago, few could have predicted that these random objects taken from everyday life would have such a lasting influence on art. The Readymade Century examines Duchamp’s readymades from two perspectives, beginning with the genesis and consistency of Duchamp’s concept in the first 50 years of the “readymade century,” 1916 to 1964. The second part, “Readymade Exposition,” describes the hist ..."
"Founded in 1971, and now in possession of more than 1,400 international works, Video-Forum is the oldest collection of video art in Germany. This book documents the complete collection, including focal points such as Fluxus and feminist videos, as well as historical and contemporary video art from Berlin."
"In this volume, German photographer Bertram Kober (born 1961) documents transmitters and receiver plants in 12 different European countries, from the Italian mountain range to the German lowlands. His poetic images highlight the sculptural properties of these towering constructions."