Viennese Actionism
Viennese Actionism

Author: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain)

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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To understand the full extent of this collective gesture of protest against history carried out in a brief space of time by Viennese artists in Vienna, it is essential to forget that they were born out of the horror of national-socialism. As a product of the 1960s, Viennese Actionism and its extremism represent an artistic phenomenon of great contemporary interest, when we find that violence resides everywhere behind the false appearance of universal peace. Arising in a marginal cultural environment, this book looks at Viennese Actionism art as a convulsive, virulent re-encounter between experimental art and destruction.

Contextual Media
Contextual Media

Author: Edward Barrett

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780262023832

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This text on the social construction of knowledge contains 13 contributions which: focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to cultural institutions; analyze narrative and other navigational structures in interactive multimedia systems; and present innovative uses of multimedia.

Expanded Cinema
Expanded Cinema

Author: A. L. Rees

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781854379740

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In this book leading scholars from Europe and North-America trace expanded cinema from its origins in early abstract film to post-war happenings and live events in Europe and the US; the first video and multi-media experiments of the 1960s; the fusion of multi-screen art with sonic art and music from the 1970s onwards, right up to the digital age. It brings new perspectives to bear on the work of established American pioneers such as Carolee Schneemann and Stan Vanderbeek as well as exploring expanded cinema in Western and Central Europe, the influence of video art on new media technologies, and the role of British expanded cinema from the 1970s to the present day. It shows how artists challenged the conventions of spectatorship, the viewing space and the audience, to explore a new participatory and performative cinema beyond the single screen.

History of Modern Art
History of Modern Art

Author: H. H. Arnason

Publisher: Pearson College Division

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 9780205259472

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Since it first appeared in 1968, History of Modern Art has emphasized the unique formal properties of artworks, and the book has long been recognized for the acuity of its visual analysis.

Electric Language
Electric Language

Author: Michael Heim

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780300077469

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In this book Michael Heim provides the first consistent philosophical basis for critically evaluating the impact of word processing on our use of and ideas about language. This edition includes a new foreword by David Gelernter, a new preface by the author, and an updated bibliography. "Not only important but seminal, on the cutting-edge, furrowing new conceptual territory."-Walter J. Ong, S.J. "A philosopher ponders how the word processor has affected language use and our ideas about it. Heim shrewdly updates a school of thought, associated with such thinkers as Walter Ong, that maintains all changes in writing technology tend to change the way we perceive the world. His argument that word processing leads to fragmented thinking should be addressed and debated."-Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer "The arguments range over all of Western philosophy (and some Eastern as well), from the ancient Greeks to contemporary phenomenology. . . . Everyone who has used a word processor will find much to think about in Heim's ideas."-David Weinberger, Byte "Fascinating, clear, and well-done . . . stimulating and challenging."-Don Ihde, Philosophy and Rhetoric

Richard Gerstl
Richard Gerstl

Author: Diethard Leopold

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783777426228

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The art academy failed to recognise his talent; he rejected the contemporary art scene in Vienna; and his visionary work was largely neglected during his lifetime: the painter Richard Gerstl (1883-1908), whose creative period lasted for just four intensive years, is regarded today as one of the most important representatives of Austrian Expressionism for his portraits and landscapes. With his early pictures Self-Portrait against a Blue Background and The Sisters Karoline and Pauline Frey Richard Gerstl began to create an oeuvre which was well ahead of his times and which made him one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. In 1906 Gerstl met the musician Arnold Schönberg. He embarked upon an affair with the latter's wife Mathilde, who briefly left her husband but then returned to him in 1908. Gerstl not only lost his lover but was also socially isolated; he committed suicide during that same year. His work sank into oblivion

The Computer as Medium
The Computer as Medium

Author: Berit Holmqvist

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780521419956

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Many industrial training applications, educational applications, and of course information applications such as databases and hypermedia are all attempts to communicate, and yet we really don't know much about the computer as a communicative medium. Bringing together a collection of essays presenting such diverse theoretical approaches as general semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, literary and art criticism, sociology, and history, the editors set out to establish and elaborate the role of computer systems as a sign technology. The volume is divided into three main parts, each focused on a different field of semiotic inquiry. "Computer-Based Signs" discusses the special nature of signs produced by means of computers. "The Rhetoric of Interactive Media" deals with codes of aesthetics and composition for the new "elastic" medium of communication: interactive fiction and hypertext. "Computers in Context" analyzes computer technology in the larger cultural, historical, and organizational contexts. Scholars in computer science, cognitive science, organization theory, information and media science, semiotics, communication, and linguistics will find this book invaluable, and as current excitement about hypermedia and electronic books continues to grow, a broader audience including computer artists and literary critics will also find it a useful resource.

After the Wake
After the Wake

Author: Christopher Butler

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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'After the Wake' provides the reader with a critical guide to the development of experimental literature, music, and painting since the Second World War.