Screen LibraryKinetismus : 100 years of electricity in art /
"This exhibition is not the first devoted to electricity in the arts, but in many aspects, it is different-- above all in its structure according to the 'four Cs' (cinematography, cinétisme, cybernetics, computer art), which thus shows all forms of interdependency, intersectionality,...
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Kunsthalle Praha Services, s.r.o.,
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Prague : Berlin, Germany : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st edition. |
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| Summary: |
"This exhibition is not the first devoted to electricity in the arts, but in many aspects, it is different-- above all in its structure according to the 'four Cs' (cinematography, cinétisme, cybernetics, computer art), which thus shows all forms of interdependency, intersectionality, variations, and interplays of electrified motion, light, machines, and media. Moreover, the exhibition differs in its contemporary relevance. Its basic aim is to demonstrate that, alongside many centuries of art without electricity ('unplugged art,' like 'unplugged music'), for the past 100 years there has existed an art based on electricity, 'plugged-in art'--the predominant singular achievement of the twentieth century. Even as museums and the market hesitate to accept electricity-based forms of art, future generations will claim that the true masterpieces of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are not unplugged paintings and sculptures made by human hands but rather those artworks created with the technology at their epoch"-- "This exhibition catalogue is the first comprehensive survey of art forms based on electricity and electronics. It presents a logical structure of their evolution from mechanical to digital technologies. Around the year 1900, machine motion and artificial light entered the art world. Moving machines paved the way for moving images, and with them arose the "Four Cs": first cinematography, the art of illusionary movement, followed by cinétisme (kineticism), the art of real movement, and then cybernetic and computer art, which built the innovative achievements of the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They differ from the "unplugged" masterpieces of the past in that they were created with the tools of their times. A civilization that function entirely on the basis of electricity and electronics is mirrored by an art that uses the technology of its epoch"-- |
| Item Description: | Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition at Kunsthalle Praha, February 22 to June 20, 2022. |
| Carrier Form: | 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783775751971 3775751971 9788090825819 8090825818 |
| Index Number: | N72 |
| CLC: | J114-28 |
| Call Number: | J114-28/K519 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / Introduction / 100 years of electricity in art / The illusion of movement / Robert Breer / Mary Ellen Bute / Viking Eggeling / William Kentridge / Man Ray / Walter Ruttman / Stefan and Franciszka Themerson / Peter Weibel / The art of real motion / Pol Bury / Anna Kodl -- Naum Gabo / Žilvinas Kempinas -- Vollrad Kutscher / Zdeněk Pešánek / Otto Piene / Konrad Balder Schäuffelen / Takis / Feedback, self-organization, and interaction in art / Vladimir Bonačič / Shilpa Gupta / Györy Kepes / Christina Kubisch / Frank Joseph Malina / Nicolas Schöffer / Wen-Ying Tsai / Woody Vašulka / The computer as a universal medium / Refik Anadol / Michael Bielický and Kamila B. Richter / Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer / Haroon Mirza / Anna Ridler / Lillian F. Schwartz / Jeffrey Shaw and Dirk Groeneveld / Karl Sims / teamLab / |