New media art

The concept of media art refers to artistic works that the media uses mainly in the 20-21. Incurred century, such as film, video, holography, Internet, computers, mobile telephony, etc. In English, the term media art, however, is partially used synonymously with new media art. New media are here each carrier, broker or working material in art.

Designations

Depending on which medium is used in the creative process mainly, media art is sometimes also a narrower term to designate its own art form used such as Digital Art ( sa Digital Media ), video art, computer art, robot art or electronic art instead of the term. In the latter examples, the respective technical media / devices must also serve as the namesake of these art forms. Whether these terms are hold in the long run, is currently open. However, carrier or agent of art can also be abstract media such as computer networks, computer games or abstracting languages ​​such as programming languages ​​or mathematics. The corresponding art directions are denoted by Net Art, Game Art (english Video Game Art and art game), software art or mathematical art.

These processes can be social, technical or aesthetic nature. In this approach, a proximity shows concept art. If the process is in the foreground ( the process-based art), the description of the process itself is used to denote the special art form often used, such as in generative art, interactive art, performative art.

In the Media Art Artists often occur as a programmer and developer of programs. Many media artists are self-taught - for example, pictorial or in the technical / mathematical field. A media art education that is aimed explicitly to digitally operating media, there are only a few years. Since the 1970s, there are studies of media art in numerous German and international universities. However, they all have different directions and goals.

History

Media art is connected in its origin with the development of photographic techniques (an example from the 16th century: the zoetrope ). The first calculated on media art artists have mostly worked in the division of experimental film, like Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, Oskar Fischinger, Alexandre Alexeieff, Claire Parker, Len Lye or Mary Ellen Bute. Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell, originally counting on Fluxus, are the best known artists who have worked with the media of video and television. In the history of computer art since the 60s, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and A. Michael Noll and conceptually since the 50s Max Bense are considered pioneers. From the field of conceptual art can Lawrence Weiner, Jeffrey Shaw, Fleischmann & Strauss, Jan- Peter ER Sunday and Peter Weibel be expected to media artists.

In 1979, the Kunstverein in Cologne from a video installation by Marcel Odenbach. Play video installations from the 1970s to the enforcement of media art as a traditional media equivalent division an important role. Under the title " art and technology. Departure into new realities " presented Jürgen Claus in 1984 a major exhibition in Bonn (BMFT ) with emphasis on holography, computer art, video, cybernetic sculptures, cable TV, and optical disk. From the late 1980s eventually dominate video works at international exhibitions such as Documenta ( Marie-Jo Lafontaine, for example, is already at the Documenta 8 represented ) or the Venice Biennale in the image and temporarily pushing art forms such as painting in the background. 1989 organized Wulf Herzogenrath at the Kunstverein exhibition video sculpture retrospective and date from 1963 to 1989. Other important artists are the American Bruce Nauman and Bill Viola.

Initiated at the instigation of Wulf Herzogenrath as director of the Kunsthalle Bremen and supported the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006, the project 40jahrevideokunst.de. Total of 59 historical and current video tapes were the same time in five museums, viewing from 1963 to the present, among others in the Bremen Kunsthalle, the Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Meanwhile, work in the archives of various collections and institutions are temporarily accessible.

The history of media art in particular by the 2005 Oliver Grau called into life conference series Re: explores On the Histories of Mediaart, Science and Technology: fresh.

Institutions

An important role for the enforcement of the new media in the art world plays the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz was founded in 1979. In Germany plays since the establishment in 1989, now under the direction of Peter Weibel Center for Art and Media Technology ( ZKM) in Karlsruhe with its museum, institutes and the connection to the State College of Design, an important role for the development of media art and the research on the media itself

Likewise, the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, is its focus obliged media art. The house was founded in 2000 not only realized several exhibitions a year, but awards made ​​possible by the Foundation of Lower Saxony, since 2001 three annual six-month work scholarships to international media artists.

Since 2005, the first international Master's program in media art history exists at the Department for Image Science at Danube University, and since 2007 the bachelor's degree Arts and Multimedia at the Department of Art Education at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

The Foundation imai - inter media art institute in Dusseldorf since 2006 dedicated to the distribution, conservation ( conservation and restoration ) and the teaching of media art.

The Hardgoods Media Kunstverein in Dortmund since 1996 dedicated to the presentation, production, mediation and discourse in this area. Since 2002, the Nam June Paik Award is awarded for mixed media art by the NRW Art Foundation.

In Switzerland, has plug.in in Basel lot of importance in mediating between media art and the public as well as in networking, media artist. A similar position assumes the Dock18 for the Zurich area.

Places of Study

  • Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
  • Academy of Media Arts Cologne
  • Bauhaus University Weimar
  • National Academy of Design in Karlsruhe
  • Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
  • Zurich University of the Arts
  • University of the Arts Berlin
  • University of Design Offenbach am Main
  • Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  • University of Applied Arts Vienna
  • Bern University of Arts
  • University of the Arts Bremen
  • Muthesius Academy Kiel
  • Fachhochschule Salzburg
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