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- Title
Art and technology in the second half of the twentieth century: the code as a paradigm.
- Authors
de OLIVEIRA, José António Gomes
- Abstract
The thesis sustains that code (computer programming code, as well as genetic code), represented starting points for a paradigm shift in contemporary art when it began to be integrated in art practices in the second half of the 20th century. Those new paradigms were originated from a certain resistance in welcoming those new mediations, both at the critical and institutional level, which lead to the lack of attention regarding its integration into art history mainstream discourse and, consequently, to a lapse in time that is important to rehabilitate in order to understand the 21th century art practices. the first part of this study is concerned with the analyses of the social and tecnocultural contexts of the 20th century, as well as the aesthetic directions suggested by new media art practices (systems, informations and database aesthetics), in order to show that the technological shift based on information and (later) biologic technologies, were not foreign environments in the artistic creation. The second part of this study is concentrated in the artistic practice analysis of the early developments and support of new media pioneers, with some emphasis on works by Portuguese artists Leonel Moura e Marta de Menezes, as differentiated examples of the use of code (information technology and biology) in their respective artistic projects. The artistic practice in the early 21st century, briefly considered at the end of this study, outlines the new artistic scenarios and the new paradigms that were brought to light with the introduction of new media - namely at the institutional relationship level, in the archive and preservation methods, in exhibition and selling works of art - and also in the creation of new interdisciplinary academic curriculum/artistic research, and in the new synergies (and sometimes symbiotic approach) between art and science.
- Subjects
ART &; technology; TECHNO culture; MEDIA art
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p593
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract