[Reader-list] [Announcements] MediaArtHistories, new book on new media
Monica Narula
monica at sarai.net
Fri Feb 2 10:15:02 IST 2007
MediaArtHistories
edited by Oliver Grau - available from MIT Press 2007
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 collaboration 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 MediaArtHistories, leading scholars
seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it
against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that
today's media art cannot be understood by technological details
alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be
understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and
media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing
with images.
Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth
century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century
phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to
Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They
reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media,
exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art
products and consumer products and between art images and science
images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an
interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained
eye" of art history.
Overview
After-Images
Algorithmic
Ars Combinatoria
Ars Electronica
Art and Illusion
Art and Technology
Art ex Machina
Artificial Life
Biotelematics
Cinematic Apparatus
Collage or E-Collage
Computer Animation
Computer Music
Computer Sculpture
Consciousness
Counterculture
Cyberarts
Cybernetics
Digital Art
Digital Creativity
Digital Sound Synthesis
Dot-Coms
Electronic Art
Electronic Presence
Entwendete Elektrizität
Expanded Cinema
Filmic Apparatus
Fluxus Codex
Fraktales Subjekt
Gedächtnistheater
Genealogy of Morals
Gramatologie
Hamlet\Maschine
Hypertext
Illuminations
Immateriality
Immersive Virtual Space
Individuum und Kosmos
“Influencing Machine”
Information Age
Information Arts
Information Design
Information Society
Information Space
Interactive Art
Internet Art
Junggesellenmaschinen
Kinetische Kunst/Kinetic Art
Markoffsche Ketten
Mechanical Reproduction
Mediale Emotionen
Musique Algorithmique
Nanotechnology
Neural Darwinism
Non-linear History
Optische Medien
Popular Culture
Post-Formalist Art
Phantasmagoria
Robotopia
Semantic Web Primer
Simulacra & Simulation
Soft Cinema
Telematics
Telepistemology
Transgenic Art
Understanding Media
Videowelt
Virtual Reality
Visual Education
Visualisations
Contents
OLIVER GRAU
Introduction - MediaArtHistories
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
The Coming and Going of Images
I Origins: Evolution Versus Revolution
PETER WEIBEL
It is Forbidden Not to Touch: Some Remarks on the (Forgotten Parts of
the) History of Interactivity and Virtuality
EDWARD SHANKEN
Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon
ERKKI HUHTAMO
Twin-Touch-Test-Redux: Media Archeological Approach to Art,
Interactivity, and Tactility
DIETER DANIELS
Duchamp: Interface: Turing: A Hypothetical Encounter Between the
Bachelor Machine and the Universal Machine
OLIVER GRAU
Remember the Phantasmagoria! Illusion Politics of the 18th Century
and its Multimedial Afterlife
GUNALAN NADARAJAN
Islamic Automation: A Reading of Al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of
Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
II Machine-Media-Exhibition
EDMOND COUCHOT
The Automatization of Figurative Techniques: Towards the Autonomous
Image
ANDREAS BROECKMANN
Image, Process, Performance, Machine: Aspects of an Aesthetics of the
Machinic
RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI
From Film to Interactive Art: Transformation in Media Art
LOUISE POISSANT
The Passage from Material to Interface
CHRISTIANE PAUL
The Myth of Immateriality: Presenting and Preserving New Media
III Pop Meets Science
MACHIKO KUSAHARA
Device Art: A New Approach in Understanding Japanese Contemporary
Media Art
RON BURNETT
Projecting Minds
LEV MANOVICH
Abstraction and Complexity
TIMOTHY LENOIR
Making Studies in New Media Critical
IV Image Science
FELICE FRANKEL
Image, Meaning, and Discovery
W. J. T. MITCHEL
There are No Visual Media
SEAN CUBITT
Projection: Vanishing and Becoming
DOUGLAS KAHN
Between a Bach and a Hard Place: Productive Contraint in Early
Computer Arts
BARBARA MARIA STAFFORD
Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation
Monica Narula
Raqs Media Collective
Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110054
www.raqsmediacollective.net
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