Art and Electronic Media
A landmark survey examining the pivotal role of new technologies in recent artistic innovation.
Edited by Edward A Shanken
Editions:
Price: £45.00
450 points- Hardback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 304 pp
- 250 colour illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714847825
- ISBN-10: 0714847828
- The first comprehensive international survey of art in the myriad forms of electronic media, including light, robotics, networks, virtual reality and the web
- Includes works by over 150 artists, many familiar – Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Mario Merz – plus emerging and recent pioneers, such as Robert Lazzarini, Blast Theory, Granular Synthesis, Simon Penny, Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca and Mikami Seiko
- Outlines the importance of figures previously neglected by art history, including engineers, technicians and collaborators
- A lucid, accessible and authoritative evaluation of continually developing media
- Combines a major essay, many colour illustrations and a wide-ranging anthology of original documents
Edward A Shanken is an art historian focusing on 20th-century experimental art. Editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott (2001), he serves on the Media Art History faculty at Donau University, Krems, Austria, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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