ART PAPERS LIVE!
The Premier Contemporary Art
Lecture Series presents:
Oliver Grau
MediaArtHistories: Imagery and
the Humanities in the 21st Century
This event is free, open to the
public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, including directions
and map, visit www.artpapers.org
Co-sponsored by Georgia Tech College
of Architecture and Goethe Zentrum/German Cultural Center Atlanta
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Over the last thirty years,
media art has become a determining field. Digital art is now the art of our
time. Yet, it is still often excluded from our major cultural institutions.
Although there are popular festivals worldwide, well-funded collaborative
projects, numerous artist-written articles, and emerging database documentation
projects, media art is rarely collected by museums, included in mainstream art history
or accessible to non-Western publics and scholars. As a result, a significant
portion of our recent history has faded into cultural amnesia. Significantly,
digital works produced some ten years ago are already lost: they can no longer
be shown and they have vanished into obsolescence without a trace.
This history-our digital image
history-is absolutely crucial to understanding the current image revolution,
its reliance on new technologies, and its production of many new visual
expressions. Media art is a socially-integrated art form. What can be done?
Contemporary scientific research relies on access to shared data. For example, astronomists,
biologists, and climatologists put common data to endless uses. If art and the
humanities are to foster the emergence of new globally-relevant social
questions, they will also have to develop and utilize common data pools.
Oliver Grau is Chair Professor
of Image Science and Head of the Department for Image Science at Danube
University in Krems, Austria. His research focuses on the history of media
arts, immersion and emotions, telepresence, and artificial life. He is the
author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press, 2003) and editor
of MediaArtHistories (MIT Press, 2007). His much-anticipated book, Imagery in
the 21st Century was just published by MIT Press.
Learn more about Oliver Grau here.
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