Overview
- Provides a contemporary analysis of the intersections between time technology and art
- Embarks on a new deconstruction of the history of kinetic art, which is often thought of as a precursor to computer and digital art
- Includes a chapter on immersive and participatory installations by contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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This book challenges the dominant view that kinetic art is an antiquated artistic experiment and considers the changing perception of kinetic art by focusing on exhibitions and institutions that have recently challenged the notion of kinetic art as a marginalised and forgotten artistic experiment with mechanical media. This is achieved by deconstructing Frank Popper’s argument that kinetic art is a precursor to subsequent explorations in the intersections between art, science and technology.
Rather than pandering to the prevailing art historicalassumption that kinetic sculpture is merely a precursor to art in a digital culture, the book proposes that perhaps kineticism succeeded too well, where movement has become a ubiquitous element of the aesthetic of contemporary art. If, as Boris Groys has recently suggested, installation has become the dominant mode of art in the contemporary age, then movement in real time with the viewer is used to aestheticise and explore the facets of our peculiar time.
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Book Title: Movement, Time, Technology, and Art
Authors: Christina Chau
Series Title: Springer Series on Cultural Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4705-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4704-6Published: 26 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5206-5Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4705-3Published: 12 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2195-9056
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 148
Topics: Cultural Studies, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Cultural Theory, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Media and Communication