Could this Be What It looks like? Lifelike Art and Art-and-technology Practice (I si això fos el que sembla? Art que imita la vida i pràctica artística tecnològica)
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2011
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Artnodes
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11
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Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Abstract
For more than ten years, a number of archival and curatorial projects have mapped out a
trajectory of art-historical roots for the values and practices of new media arts, its conventions
and institutions. These accounts are, as often as not, earnest attempts made by practitioners
and theorists alike to “save” new media’s artists and works from the purported inevitability
of becoming a ghettoized subculture, walled off from the resources and distribution channels
associated with Western contemporary (and commercial) museum and gallery culture. Saving
new media in this way purportedly holds the promise of improving critical discourse surrounding
“the work”, developing audience and interest, stimulating economic potential, and securing
new media its rightful detent as another lineal “movement” in histories of creative practice.
The experimental, process-driven and often anti-professional outlook of the conceptual
avant-garde of the latter half of the 20th century provides an oft-cited and somewhat
contradictory framework for situating new media within a contemporary art system that has
remained relatively formal. As well, the current proliferation, popularization and extension
of abilities that only a decade ago were the exclusive purvey of self-proclaimed new media
artists have resulted in a number of points of entry for non-specialists to access concepts in
non-objective art, participatory performance, process and systems-art. Is the dream of the
early techno-artistic avant-garde becoming a reality?
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new media, genealogy, discourse
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1695-5951
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English
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Published
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Allen, J. (2011). Could this Be What It looks like? Lifelike Art and Art-and-technology Practice (I si això fos el que sembla? Art que imita la vida i pràctica artística tecnològica). Artnodes, 11. https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4528