Sounds like the art establishment is starting to accept digital / new media art. Or even that it has done for a while now. Some years ago I gave up trying to get work into galleries, the technical aspects of my work made galleries and art dealers yawn. Maybe it's different now?
On 2 May 2014 11:50, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > The Book ‘Beyond New Media Art’ reviewed by Joseph Nechvatal. > > Domenico Quaranta, a curator and art critic who regularly writes for Flash > Art and Artpulse, has just released a new book Beyond New Media Art that is > particularly topical and noteworthy, as it is very much in the current > inclination to formally re-evaluate contemporary art in terms of a > developing post-media understanding. In it Quaranta deftly juxtaposes Peter > Weibel’s notions of post-media against those of Rosalind Krauss (who > dismisses the post-medium condition) and Félix Guattari (who embraced a > critical and political post-medium condition), questioning their > distinctions in a post-media world in which perhaps it no longer makes > sense to distinguish between art that uses computers and art which doesn’t. > (page 212) > > But perhaps it still does. Possibly there is something strangely > cognitively dissonant in the medium-specificity of computers themselves, as > Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg already in a 1977 essay suggest, with their > understanding that the Dynabook (an early multimedia computing system) > should be viewed as a medium in and of itself while simultaneously > containing the powers of most other media put together. Hence already > proposing the idea of the computer as metamedium. > > But the focus of this book is tighter than that and begins by telling the > history of the gap between the mainstream curatorial contemporary art world > and the so-called new media art world. This little known history is the > crux of this pertinently revised, updated version of an earlier 2010 book > Quaranta published in Italian, with the title Media, New Media, Postmedia > (Postmedia Books, Milan). Through the circulation of interviews around that > book, Quaranta contributed a bit to the heated debate outside of Italy > concerning the majority of powerful contemporary art historians and > curators’ ignoring (in what seemed like a blanket rejection) of new media > and digital art per say, and their enforced taboo against artists who > address our era of digital technology head-on. > > more… > http://www.on-verge.org/reviews/book-review-beyond-new-media-art/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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