folks,
maybe some useful, though anecdotal evidence for this debate is the fact
that, yesterday evening, a "media artist" was announced as one of the
four candidates for the Young Artist Award of the Neue Nationalgalerie
Berlin (an initiative that is trying to be the german Turner Prize). i
think the case is interesting because, given the quite conservative
selection of the other candidates, *this* is apparently what the jury
could recognise as interesting media art.
regards,
-a
http://www.preis2013.de/index.php?id=1290&L=1
Simon Denny
(born in 1982 in Auckland, lives and works in Berlin)
New Zealand artist Simon Denny investigates the means used by the media
to convey information: television programmes, mobile telephones, window
displays, Powerpoint software, or internet networks, which he
re-evaluates for his artwork. Each time, his extensive research results
in exaggerated and often also ironic sculptures and spatial designs
dedicated to separate media events. His installations, which are
sometimes displayed on public buildings remote from the venues of the
world of art, cunningly oscillate between cultural criticism and an
information campaign carried to the extreme.
Am 03.09.12 18:12, schrieb Hamilton, Kevin:
> What remains less questioned in this discussion? The ways in which subjectivities are shaped by professions as well as media.
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