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Media Arts Zürich

13 Positions from the Department of New Media

With Essays by Inke Arns, Andreas Broeckmann, and Giaco Schiesser and Photographs by Schaub Stierli. Artists include Valentina Vuksic, Andre Gwerder, Marc Lee, Lea Filadoro, Andalus, Markus von Glasenapp, Sven Konig, Annina Rüst, Meriem Bouhara, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mario Purkathofer, Fabian Voegeli, Roland Roos

Distributed for Scheidegger & Spiess

Media Arts Zürich

13 Positions from the Department of New Media

With Essays by Inke Arns, Andreas Broeckmann, and Giaco Schiesser and Photographs by Schaub Stierli. Artists include Valentina Vuksic, Andre Gwerder, Marc Lee, Lea Filadoro, Andalus, Markus von Glasenapp, Sven Konig, Annina Rüst, Meriem Bouhara, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mario Purkathofer, Fabian Voegeli, Roland Roos
Media art is one of the most exciting experimental fields to emerge in contemporary art in recent years—and yet its innovations have been sparsely documented. Media Arts Zurich, the third yearbook published by the Department New Media at the newly founded Zurich University of the Arts, seeks to fill this gap, offering an illuminating overview of the Swiss media art scene of the past decade. This book examines the varying approaches, techniques, and strategies of acclaimed media artists as well as the public reception of their work.
Accompanied by a companion DVD in PAL format and 400 lavish illustrations, this volume presents thirteen individual artists and groups in the context of their backgrounds, exhibitions, and the state of European media art. Two essays by art and media historians here position these Swiss media artists in the international art world and document the first ten years and visions for the future of the media art program at the Zurich University of the Arts and its predecessor, the School of Art and Design Zurich. Richly illustrated and deeply informed, Media Arts Zurich points the way to a new European avant-garde.
 
 

204 pages | 400 color plates, with PAL-format DVD | 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 | © 2008

Art: European Art


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Table of Contents

Vorwort/Preface
Giaco Schiesser
 
Uber Zeitgenossenschaft: Die medialen Künste im Zeitalter ihrer postmedialen Kondition/On Contemporaneity: The media arts in the age of their post-modern condition
Inke Arns
 
Sieben Exkurse zu den medialen Künsten/Seven Short Essays on Art and Media
Andreas Broeckmann
 
Positionen/Positions 1-13
 
Personen, Preise, Ausstellungen 1998-2008/People Awards, Exhibitions 1998-2008
 
Impressum/Imprint
 
DVD

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