Item Number: 135209 Title: Media Art. Towards a New Definition of Arts in the Age of Technology Author: Catricala, Valentino Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788873365648 Description: Pistoia: Gli Ori, 2015. 21cm., pbk., 184pp. illus. English text. Published on occasion of the first Media Art Festival, Rome. Summary: This publication and the festival with which it is associated – takes an anthological approach to Media Art, with a focus upon the host nation but in a wider European context. This is apposite, as the term Media Art is quintessentially European rather than Anglo-Saxon, where it has not thus far been comfortably adopted as a collective label for the wide variety of artistic activity that has been produced and developed since the early 1980s. There is presently a diverse range of practice: Media Art can encompass many media and art-forms (film, video, sound – sound art, time based art, performance art, installation art, computer art, sci-art, interactive art etc.), but today is most often associated by the use of digital technologies. As an artist that has lived and produced work through two technological breakthroughs: the emergence of video as a carrier and recorder of sound and image; secondly the advent of the personal computer; I hold an ambivalent position to claims for ‘the digital’. Media art is contemporary and temporary and certainly not all the same: there are many differences of background, training and motivation between the protagonists – the artists. They may identify themselves as a media artist, sic artist, technologist, media activist, video artist or none of the above. If this is true of the artists it is even more so for the theorists and writers on media art. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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