[Leonardo/ISAST Network] MediaArtHistories, Edited by Oliver Grau - Now Available from the Leonardo Book Series
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/MediaArtHistories/, Edited by Oliver Grau; with contributions by Rudolf
Arnheim <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12053>,
Andreas Broeckmann
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=16019>, Ron
Burnett <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20708>,
Edmond Couchot
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34331>, Sean
Cubitt <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12534>,
Dieter Daniels
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34332>, Felice
Frankel <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=15483>,
Oliver Grau
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12229>, Erkki
Huhtamo <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12077>,
Douglas Kahn
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=475>, Ryszard W.
Kluszczynski
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34333>, Machiko
Kusahara <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=15028>,
Timothy Lenoir
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20706>, Lev
Manovich <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=564>,
W. J. T. Mitchell
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=6912>, Gunalan
Nadarajan
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34334>,
Christiane Paul
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=11960>, Louise
Poissant <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12210>,
Edward A. Shanken
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12055>, Barbara
Maria Stafford
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=352> and Peter
Weibel <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=796>
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to
achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely
collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other
academic disciplines. In /MediaArtHistories/, leading scholars seek to
change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the
backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art
cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be
understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity
to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer
science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.
Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century
Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic
lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions
and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art
theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred
dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between
art images and science images. Finally, /MediaArtHistories/ offers an
approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs
the "trained eye" of art history.
Essays by:
Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha
Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard,
Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Jenni Sorkin.
Artists include:
Marina Abramovic(, Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Louise
Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson,
Valie Export, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Joan Jonas, Mary Kelly,
Maria Lassnig, Linda Montano, Alice Neel, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine
O'Grady, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Howardena Pindell, Yvonne
Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler,
Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, and
Hannah Wilke.
Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department
for Cultural Studies, Danube University Krems. He is the author of
/Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion/ (MIT Press, 2003), editor of
/Mediale Emotionen/ (2005) and founder of the pioneering international
digital art archive www.virtualart.at.
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