Book for the Electronic Arts
"Book for the Electronic Arts" describes 25 years of developing electronic art, necessitating a continuous reevaluation of the classic concepts of art.
Author: Arjen Mulder, Maaike Post
Issued: 2000
Type: Paperback, illustrated, full color
Pages: 184
Language: EnglishDimensions: 27.5 x 20.5 cm
ISBN: 0-6617-255-X
Price: Sold Out
Design: Joke Brouwer
Interviews with: Dick Raaijmakers, Stelarc, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Roy Ascott, Adilkno, Erik Hobijn, Felix Hess, Lars Spuybroek, Kodwo Eshun, Geert Lovink, Seiji Shimoda.
In the past 25 years the electronic arts have left their pioneering days behind and grown into a fully fledged and richly varied form of art. Electronic art concerns both an artistic approach to technological devices and a technological approach to artistic concepts. Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here. These essays were written with a lay audience in mind and describe the cultural, scientific, art historic, military-political and socioeconomic backgrounds with which electronic art is in dialogue.
The electronic arts as described here include
spectacular devices such as Dutch artist Erik Hobijn's "suicide
machine" and the "third arm" of Australian body artist Stelarc,
and sophisticated interactive installations like those of Germany's Ulrike
Gabriel and Japan's Seiko Mikami. They also include complex Internet projects
by the Austrian/German Knowbotic Research (IO_dencies) and the
English art inspiration Roy Ascott and the motion architecture of Rotterdam's Lars Spuybroek/NOX.
These and other artists are given a voice in the Book for the Electronic
Arts. Also included are interviews with pioneers and theorists of
electronic art like Dick Raaijmakers, Peter Weibel, Steina and Woody Vasulka
and Kodwo Eshun.
The Book for the Electronic Arts is lavishly illustrated with
full-color photographs and other documents from the archives of V2_Organisation
in Rotterdam,
where over the past twenty years, virtually everything that was of interest in
electronic art or was later proven to be has been presented.
"Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here". UNESCO.org
Essays
- Non-Producing Machines
- Unstable Media
- Imageless Art
- Counterintuitive Interfaces
- Incommunicative Networks
Interviews
- Dick Raaijmakers
- Stelarc
- Steina and Woody Vasulka
- Peter Weibel
- V2_Organisation
- Roy Ascott
- Adilkno
- Erik Hobijn
- Felix Hess
- Lars Spuybroek
- Kodwo Eshun
- Geert Lovink
- Seiji Shimoda
