Present Continuous Past(s) • Media Art. Strategies of Presentation, Mediation and Dissemination

Present Continuous Past(s) • Media Art. Strategies of Presentation, Mediation and Dissemination

Ursula Frohne / Mona Schieren / Jean-Francois Guiton Eds.
With a history of more than 30 years, media art plays an increasingly important role in the international discourse on contemporary art. The reception of canonical video works and electronic media installations is however restricted to temporary and locally defined displays in museum exhibitions or confined to incomplete catalogue documentations. This volume provides a unique combination of theoretical reflections on the reproducibility, preservation of authenticity and juridical implications of emulation techniques with practical approaches to archiving methods and commercial aspects of media art’s accessibility. It is an indispensible guide to the pro’s and con’s for new forms of de-centralized systems of mediation and the growing demands for liberal rules and easy access to online-presentations of media art. Uncomparable to other current publications, the book offers a practical manual with checklists for relevant websites and content profiles of major distribution companies.

Table of Contents
Introduction - Pages 13-21
The Artwork as Temporal Form Giving Access to the Historicity, Context and Discursiveness of Media Art - Ursula Frohne - Pages 22-35
Thirty Years of Media Art by Ulrike Rosenbach - Experience in Mediation and Reproduction - Ulrike Rosenbach - Pages 36-45
»Withdrawal as an Artform« - Between Withdrawal and Presentation - The Body in the Media Arts - Sabine Flach - Pages 46-61
Montage and Image Environments: Narrative Forms in Contemporary Video Art - Elke Bippus, Dirck Möllmann - Pages 62-73
Media storage. On Documenting and Archiving Media Art - Mona Schieren - Pages 74-81
Global Icons - Lydia Haustein - Pages 82-95
Before and after video art - Television as a subject and material for art around 1963, and a glance at net art since the 1990s - Dieter Daniels - Pages 96-111
Dan Graham’s Designs for Video Presentations: Art, Commentary and Solution - Katharina Ammann - Pages 112-123
Stan Douglas, »Win, Place or Show« - Hans D. Christ - Pages 124-131
T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual databases - Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel - Pages 132-141
www_guiton_de - Jean-François Guiton - Pages 142-149
Database and Context Artistic Strategies within a Dynamic Field of Action - Rudolf Frieling - Pages 150-161
On the development of netzspannung.org - An Online Archive and Transfer Instrument for Communicating Digital Art and Culture - Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss - Pages 162-173
Capturing Unstable Media Arts - A formal model for describing and preserving aspects of electronic media art - Rens Frommé, Sandra Fauconnier - Pages 174-189
The Digital Mystique: Video Art, Aura and Access - Lori Zippay - Pages 190-195
»How to deliver what is asked« - Bart Rutten - Pages 196-201

Springer, Paperback, english, 223 pages