CONTEMPORARY NEW MEDIA ART – A TERMINOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL DESIGNATION
Keywords:
media, new media art, post-media art, contemporary artistic practice, contemporary art theoriesAbstract
The text presents theoretical interpretations of the term new media art within the context of contemporary art, which began, in symbolic terms, in 1989 with the global change of paradigms from modern to contemporary art (T. Smith). The term new media has been broadly used to interpret contemporary artistic practices in art history and theory over the past few decades (from the 1990’s onwards). However, within the contemporary context of new media and post-media artistic practices (R. Krauss), determining a borderline separating new media from old ones has become a very slippery ground on account of some media becoming obsolescent due to continual innovations in the domain of technologies that have entered the world of art, the use of traditional media in new media art, and also to various media transfers of content. This paper explores the terminological ambiguities pertaining to the use of terms, as well as the qualities and values which, apart from the actual media tools, characterise contemporary new media art.
Downloads
References
Apprich, Clemens et al. (ed.). Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology. London: Mute / Lüneburg: Post-Media Lab Books, 2013.
Arns, Inke. “Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication.” u Media Art Net 1: Survey of Media Art, ed. Daniels, Dieter and Rudolf Frieling, Vienna/New York: Springer, 2004. http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_ art/communication/ (1. 9. 2020).
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Faletra, Marcello. “On Digital Nihilism and Techno-Sadness, Interview with Geert Lovink.” Cyberzone Magazine (2020) https://networkcultures.org/geert/2020/04/07/on-digitalnihilism-and-techno-sadness-interview-with-geert-lovink-for-cyberzone/?pdf=1996 (1. 9. 2020)
Garcia, David and Geert Lovink. “The ABC of Tactical Media.” (1997). https://www. nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00096.html (1. 9. 2020)
Graham, Beryl and Sarah Cook. Rethinking Curating. Art after New Media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010.
Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” u Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology, eds. Frascina, Francis & Charles Harrison. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 1982.
Greenberg, Clement. “Towards a Newer Laocoön.” u Pollock and After: The Critical Debate, ed. Frascina, Francis. London: Routledge, 1985.
#KissMyArs. “The tireless enchantment of technological sorcery | Ars Electronica 2016 Review.” Furtherfield, 2016. https://www.furtherfield.org/the-tireless-enchantment-oftechnological-sorcery-ars-electronica-2016-review/
Kluitenberg, Eric. “Transfiguration of the Avant-Garde, The Negative Dialectics of the Net.” (2001). https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0201/msg00104.html (o 1. 9. 2020)
Krauss, Rosalind E. A voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-medium Condition (Walter Neurath memorial lecture). New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
Leonardo Journal https://www.leonardo.info (1. 9. 2020)
Lillemose, Jacob. “Conceptual Transformations of Art: From Dematerialisation of the Object to Immateriality in Networks.” u Curating Immateriality: the Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, ed. Krysa, Joasia, New York: Autonomedia, 2006.
Lippard, Lucy R. Six Years: Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Lyotard, Jean François. “Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime.” Artforum (1988): 64–70.
Manovich, Lev. “New Media from Borges to HTML. Introduction to The New M edia Reader.” u New Media Reader, ed. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Nick Montfort. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003. http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/033- new-media-from-borges-to-html/30_article_2001.pdf (1. 9. 2020)
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. http://manovich. net/content/04-projects/143-language-of-new-media/language.pdf
McDowell, Tara. “Les Immatériaux: A Conversation with Jean-François Lyot ard and Bernard Blistène.” Flash Art, 121 (March 1985): 32–39 https://www.art-agenda.com/ reviews/les-immateriaux-a-conversation-with-jean-francois-lyotard-and-bernardblistene/ (1. 9. 2020)
McLuhan, Marshal. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2006 (1964).
Medosch, Armin. Technological Determinism in Media Art (A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Sussex University for the degree of MA Interactive Digital Media. October 2005). https://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Medosch_Armin_ Technological_Determinism_in_Media_Art.pdf (1. 9. 2020)
Monoskop, sekcija Media art and culture: https://monoskop.org/Media_art_and_culture (1.9. 2020)
Nettime arhiva: https://www.nettime.org/archives.php (1. 9. 2020)
Nikolić, G. et al. (ed.). Mediji su u vazduhu, pod zemljom, nad vodom, u vatri / The Media are in the Air, beneath the Earth, above Water, within Fire. Novi Sad: Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, 2018.
Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Peters, John Durham. The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media, University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Quaranta, Domenico. Beyond New Media. Brescia: Link Editions, 2013.
Quaranta, Domenico. Media, New Media, Postmedia. Postmedia Books, 2010.
Rush, Michael. New Media in Art. Thames & Hudson; 2nd Edition (June 17, 2005)
Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th-Century Art. Thames & Hudson, 1999.
Smith, Terry. Contemporary Art: World Currents. New Jersey: Pearson, 2011. Smith, Terry. What is Contemporary Art?. University of Chicago Press, 2009. Spectre arhiva: http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/spectre/ (1. 9. 2020)
Shanken, Edward A. Art and Electronic Media (Themes & Movements). London: Phaidon Press, 2009.
Shanken, Edward A (ed.). Systems. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. Tactical Media: http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/ (pristupljeno 1. 9. 2020) Tribe, Michael and Reena Jana. New Media Art. Taschen, 2006.
Weibel, Peter. On the History and Aesthetics of the Digital Image. 1984.
Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
ZKM – Media Art Net http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/mediaartnet/ (1. 9. 2020)
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
