Along the lines of the Spectre conversation, the Journal of Aesthtics &
Protest ran an article in the last issue that discusses Oiticica in
relation to new media art histories (by Marianna Botey and Cara
Baldwin):
http://www.joaap.org/4/botey.html
after seeing some of Lygia Clark's work in person (in the traveling
Tropicalia exhibit
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/2006/v02/n01/
Sp06_Bendito_Britsch.htm ), i'm even more amazed that it doesn't come
up more often in discussions of new media history. i'm not one for
defining canons, but if there is one, her work should be def be there.
it's interesting... on the iDC list Paul Miller and Charlie Gere
brought up the issue of Eurocentricity (or Caucasiocentricity if you
will) as well. The missing presence of Oiticica and Clark from New
Media Anthologies is telling.
At least there's this Leonardo article
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/
osthoff/osthoff.html
it even mentions a 1975 book by Frank Popper called Art - Action and
Participation, pointing to Clark along with three others, including
Maholy-Nagy.
the work in Tropicalia is also worth considering in the context of our
art & activism discussion...
best,
ryan
On Apr 13, 2006, Sarah Cook wrote:
> this thread is happening on the spectre list, but perhaps people have
> some thoughts here too?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Jose-Carlos Mariategui <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 7 March 2006 6:06:11 AM GMT
>> To: Chris Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>> Cc: Spectre <[log in to unmask]>, iberoamerica ACT
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: [spectre] How International is Media Art ? The Role of the
>> Curatorial Practice
>>
>> Dear Chris and friends:
>>
>> I just came up with this interesting announcement of the International
>> Symposium on Curating New Media Art. Yes, but it is Western-side
>> International Symposium, not a real International one. It is a pity
>> that
>> though there are so many projects going on at a wide (real)
>> International
>> Scale, there is still the need to "Westernize" as much as possible
>> the arts.
>> This is similar to the reasons why in the majority of books on the
>> so-called
>> history of New Media there is not a single discussion on what happened
>> outside Europe, Japan or the USA. This reflects a conformism and
>> lack of a
>> real consideration of the ways in which new media art has been
>> evolving,
>> quite successfully in many cases, through out the world, and I say
>> the world
>> (including the so-called emergent 'others' that in economic terms
>> represented in 2005 more than half world's GDP).
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