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hi
as the new tendencies / bit international exhibition is currently
shown at ZKM,
I thought the following is interesting for some people on this list as
it
contains a lot of material for the study of kinetic, cybernetic and
computer
art. there is also an argument contained her about the writing of
histories and
above all the thesis that this early 'computer avantgard' shows many
of the
problems which affect media art till today.
Article start:
Since more than 10 years the Croatian media artist Darko Fritz has been
researching the archives of the Museum for Contemporary Arts Zagreb to
gather
material about the New Tendencies series of exhibitions and events in
Zagreb,
Ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia, from 1961 to 1973 and the Bit
International journal
published by that same art movement. An exhibition in 2007 at Neue
Galerie Graz
and now at ZKM Karlsruhe shows the works of this important but almost
lost art
movement, were it not for the effort of Darko Fritz. For the Graz
exhibition a
little catalogue came out with contributions by Peter Weibel, Jesa
Denegri and
Margit Rosen. I have data mined those articles and present this
material in the
manner of a literature review for other researchers to study it and
draw their
own conclusions. All translations from German are my translations.
Full text: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/731
http://www.thenextlayer.org/
best regards
armin
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