The Next Layer - media art

Radiokolleg - Braucht Medienkunst eine Geschichte?

admin — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:09:56 +0000

In dieser Sendung folgt Armin Medosch den Windungen der Doppelhelix aus Geschichten der Medienkunst und der Geschichte der Medien im sozialhistorischen Kontext.

A Canadian Story - Railways, Telephones, Satellites, an Interview with Robert Adrian X

Armin Medosch — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:53:45 +0000

Robert Adrian X is one of the true pioneers of art as telecommunications. This file presents just a few random samples from an interview with him about the need for a history of media art. Bob mixes his thoughts about the meaning of communications with his memoirs about working those technologies from the late 1970s onwards. The beginnings were characterised by the specifically Canadian situation, a vast country that needed telecommunications to keep its ends together.

From Total Recall to Digital Dementia - Ars Electronica 2013

Armin Medosch — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:08:34 +0000

Year by year Ars Electronica gets larger, greater and more successful. One visible sign of this success are the blinking lights of the ACE at night, like an upgraded spaceship out of 'Close Encounter of the Third Kind'.

Paradigm Changes in Media Art: Research Project Description (Abstract, long version)

Armin Medosch — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:21 +0000

This research investigates media art through practice based and theoretic research. At the centre of this investigation are seminal exhibitions in the history of media art as well as my own curatorial practice. The thesis proposes that paradigm shifts in media art and society are closely linked and that studying those paradigm shifts through the chosen exhibitions provides insights into the interlocking dynamics of art, technology and social change.

Floating Structure: A Platform for Artistic Measurements and Research

Armin Medosch — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:26:02 +0000

This text is the preliminary outcome of a research project going back to 2003/2004 and developed jointly by Franz Xaver and Armin Medosch. It has a theoretical and artistic dimension as well as an activist one. At the point of its inception stood questions relating to the crisis of art in informational capitalism. The project sets out to bring some clarifications by word and deed about the relationships between art and technology, art and science and the role of the artist at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Technological Determinism in Media Art (republished)

Armin Medosch — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:05 +0000

The most influential discourse on media art up to and around 1995 uncritically based itself on techno-science and the techno-imaginary which it creates. It offers a technologically deterministic interpretation of the relationship between societies and social change. This discourse was successful in institution building and is still very influential today, even though its foundations can shown to be problematic. This is the essence of my 2005 MA thesis on "Technological Determinism in Media Art" which I republish here due to difficulties with my old site.

Lovink on Media Art

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:45:37 +0000

As promised, Geert's chapter on media art from his book Zero Commments. I think some of points are valid, although on the whole the critique is too sweeping and presents a one sided picture of what media art is. Leaving all the critical threads out and then saying its all too conformistic if obviously a polemical move. My final opinion I have not been able to formulate as I feel I can currently not write an opinionated article. I would rather do more research and then write something well founded which does not need to be polemical to be convincing.

Spectropia: Acoustic Space No. 7

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:08:39 +0000

Šmite R, Medosch A. 2008. Spectropia: Acoustic Space No. 7. Acoustic Space. 7

Die Zukunft des Körpers 2

Armin Medosch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:56:37 +0000

Bechtloff D. 1996. Die Zukunft des Körpers 2.

Media Mutandis A Node.london Reader - a Survey of Media Arts, Technologies and Politics.

Armin Medosch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:22:04 +0000

ed Vishmidt, Marina. 2006. Media Mutandis A Node.london Reader - a Survey of Media Arts, Technologies and Politics..