"Art as Visual Research: The Tendency in New Tendencies"

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 (All day)

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Armin Medosch

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Journal for Research Cultures, Vol 1, Issue 1, Dec 2015.

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Vienna

This article presents the international movement New Tendencies (1961-1978) as one of the first large scale international art movements that made artist-led research a core concern. New Tendencies adopted ideas and methods from Gestalt psychology, a holistic, experimental form of psychological research, and combined it with the idea of liberating the viewer from alienation. This paper will primarily focus on the first phase of New Tendencies, from 1961 to 1963, when the movement developed its new aesthetics and poetics. The viewer was made a participant in the work by creating a relational field between work and viewer, whereby visual research was meant to replace the notion of art. This happened in the social context of the time, characterised by rapid modernisation processes in industry summarised by the term “automation”, and by a cultural Cold War in which art was exploited by both East and West.

2015 "Art as Visual Research: The Tendency in New Tendencies", in: Journal for Research Cultures, Vol 1, Issue 1, Dec 2015.

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Out Now: A Companion to Digital Art

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Friday, April 22, 2016 (All day)

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Christiane Paul

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Wiley Blackwell

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London

This book, edited by Christiane Paul, is a veritable tome in the positive sense, a book of more than 600 pages which will define media art, digital art for some time to come. It assembles a collection of the best authors on the subject matter, in well structured chapters. Unfortunately I could not find a blurb online, so I wrote a short text describing just my contribution.

Contains my article: Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication. In this text, I start with a reflection of the new geopolitical order created by the rise of telecommunications media, networks and satellites during the 1970s, which led to the McBride Report of UNESCO, first official document to express the idea of the need for communicatrions justice between rich and poor. Starting from such a framework of the political economy of information, I first discuss emancipatory video work of the 1970s; from there I move on to the countercultural free media scene of the 1980s, squatter pirate radios in Amsterdam and television art by Rabotnik TV, Ponton and alike. I then cast a critical look at the discourse created by the tactical media festivals Next Five Minutes, and discuss the emergence of a new global networked civil society which galvanized around support for the Zapatistas in the Chiapas context, and went on to create new froms of networked protest adequate to the new political subject of the multitudes. The last subchapter engages with the combination of the discourse on the digital commons and new media ecologies of the 2000s.

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Medosch, Armin. “Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication.” In A Companion to Digital Art, 355–83. Blackwell Companions to Art History. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

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