| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 148 pages) |
| Series |
Springer series on cultural computing |
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Springer series on cultural computing.
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| Contents |
Introduction: peculiar time -- Revolutions: forms that turn -- Direction in kinetic art: expanding spectres of time -- Systems aesthetics: a key in contemporary kinetic art history -- Digital determinism: a post-kinetic and dematerialised time -- Three key influences of the kinetic aesthetic: Henri Bergson, László Moholy-Nagy and Naum Gabo -- Your negotiable Panorama: the seeping edges of perceiving yourself perceiving -- Conclusion: consciousness of time: looking back and moving forward |
| Summary |
"This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links between technology, movement and contemporary art, the book explores changing relationship between temporality in art, art history, media art theory, modernity, contemporary art, and digital art. 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 historical assumption 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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
Art and technology.
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Time and art.
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Art, Modern -- Philosophy
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art and technology.
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Art, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Time and art.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811047053 |
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9811047057 |
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9811047049 |
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9789811047046 |
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