Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition at Kunsthalle Praha, February 22 to June 20, 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261) and index.
Contents:
teamLab / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Introduction / Christelle Havranek -- 100 years of electricity in art / Peter Weibel -- Acknowledgments. The illusion of movement / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Robert Breer / Andres Pardey -- Mary Ellen Bute / Sandra Naumann -- Viking Eggeling / Peter Weibel -- William Kentridge / Idis Hartmann -- Man Ray / Sylva Polakova -- Walter Ruttman / Jeanpaul Goergen -- Stefan and Franciszka Themerson / Adriana Prodeus -- Peter Weibel / Judith Bihr -- Kinetic art. -- The art of real motion / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Pol Bury / Anna Kodl -- Naum Gabo / Peter Weibel -- Zilvinas Kempinas -- Vollrad Kutscher / Christelle Havranek -- Zdenek Pesanek / Christelle Havranek -- Otto Piene / Barbora Ropkova -- Konrad Balder Schauffelen / Anett Holzheid -- Takis / Toby Kamps -- Peter Weibel / Clara Runge -- Cybernetic art. -- Feedback, self-organization, and interaction in art / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Vladimir Bonacic / Leila Topic -- Shilpa Gupta / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Gyory Kepes / Marton Orosz -- Christina Kubisch / Anne-Laure Chamboissier -- Frank Joseph Malina / Judith Bihr -- Nicolas Schoffer / Guillaume Richard -- Wen-Ying Tsai / Clara Kim -- Woody Vasulka / Milos Vojtechovsky -- Computer art. -- The computer as a universal medium / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Refik Anadol / Pelin Kivrak -- Michael Bielicky and Kamila B. Richter / Paul Kenig -- Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer / Siegfried Zielinski -- Haroon Mirza / Anna Kodl -- Anna Ridler / Rosemary Lee -- Lillian F. Schwartz / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Jeffrey Shaw and Dirk Groeneveld / Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski -- Karl Sims / George Fifield -- teamLab / Livia Nolasco-Rozsas -- Timeline: Art ideas, and technology 1920-2020 -- List of Exhibited Works -- List of Illustrations -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photographic Credits and Copyrights -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"This exhibition is not the first devoted to electricity in the arts, but in many aspects, it is different-- above all in its structure according to the 'four Cs' (cinematography, cinetisme, cybernetics, computer art), which thus shows all forms of interdependency, intersectionality, variations, and interplays of electrified motion, light, machines, and media. Moreover, the exhibition differs in its contemporary relevance. Its basic aim is to demonstrate that, alongside many centuries of art without electricity ('unplugged art,' like 'unplugged music'), for the past 100 years there has existed an art based on electricity, 'plugged-in art'--the predominant singular achievement of the twentieth century. Even as museums and the market hesitate to accept electricity-based forms of art, future generations will claim that the true masterpieces of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are not unplugged paintings and sculptures made by human hands but rather those artworks created with the technology at their epoch"-- Page 36. "This exhibition catalogue is the first comprehensive survey of art forms based on electricity and electronics. It presents a logical structure of their evolution from mechanical to digital technologies. Around the year 1900, machine motion and artificial light entered the art world. Moving machines paved the way for moving images, and with them arose the "Four Cs": first cinematography, the art of illusionary movement, followed by cinetisme (kineticism), the art of real movement, and then cybernetic and computer art, which built the innovative achievements of the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They differ from the "unplugged" masterpieces of the past in that they were created with the tools of their times. A civilization that function entirely on the basis of electricity and electronics is mirrored by an art that uses the technology of its epoch"-- Peter Weibel, from lower cover.
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