Prof. Oliver Grau, Professor für Bildwissenschaften an der Donau-Universität Krems hat ein neues Buch herausgegeben. Mediarthistories streift durch die Geschichte der Medien- und Netzkunst und ist durch Gastkommentare von Korifäen auf ihren jeweiligen Gebieten wie Peter Weibel, Andreas Broeckmann u.v.a., prominent besetzt.
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging
the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach collaboration in new media art studies and practice.
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today’s media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.
Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp’s inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms–machine, media, exhibition–and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the “trained eye” of art history.
Prof. Grau ist seit 2000 auch Hauptverantwortlicher der Internationalen Datenbank zur virtuellen Kunst und dort für Entwicklung und Aufbau des u.a. durch das Bundesministerium für Forschung unterstützten Projektes zuständig.
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