What is the future of media art?
Version
Published
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Type
Magazine Article
Language
English
Abstract
“In the future, the only artwork that will survive will have no gravity at all” maintained Nam June Paik, the acclaimed father of video art, in1980. He speculated that the art of the future, once liberated from the gravity of its material, will lack a “preservable” aspect. Paik’s prophetic statement seems to reflect the reality confronted by the many institutions collecting, displaying and preserving media. But how to grapple with well-rooted paradigms of material authenticity that for centuries embodied the artwork’s value? Or, in other words, what is the future of media art?
Subjects
N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
NX Arts in general
T Technology (General)
Journal
University of California Press Blog Post
Publisher
University of California Press
Submitter
Hölling, Hanna Barbara
Citation apa
Hölling, H. B. (2017). What is the future of media art? In University of California Press Blog Post. University of California Press. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/38710