dear all new media/digital art as "outsider art"? "This book reviews that issue in depth, as it explores some of the historical, sociological and conceptual reasons for the weirdly under-recognized, even marginalized, position of the digital within recent art history" ... unwarranted tactical minorization of art and technology within a technological society has been the dominant trend..."
must admit this is all news to me, and probably to most of you? in my book, new media arts had been doing just fine in the these past years, not something one would need to worry too much about, as it is everywhere. I wonder what the Quaranta book is trying to stake out, or what windmills its Quixote approach is riding against. Not clear to me. regards Johannes Birringer ++++ On 2 May 2014 11:50, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org<mailto:marc.garr...@furtherfield.org>> 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 NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org<mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
