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Christina Chau Movement, Time, Technology, and Series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing

Provides a contemporary analysis of the intersections between time technology and art Embarks on a new deconstruction of the history of kinetic art, which is often thought of as a precursor to computer and Includes a chapter on immersive and participatory installations by contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links between technology, movement and contemporary art, the book explores changing relationship between temporality in art, , media art theory, modernity, contemporary 1st ed. 2017, VI, 148 p. art, and digital art. This book challenges the dominant view that kinetic art is an antiquated artistic experiment and considers the changing of kinetic art by focusing on Printed book exhibitions and institutions that have recently challenged the notion of kinetic art as a Hardcover marginalised and forgotten artistic experiment with mechanical media. This is achieved by 99,99 € | £89.99 | $119.99 deconstructing Frank Popper’s argument that kinetic art is a precursor to subsequent [1]106,99 € (D) | 109,99 € (A) | CHF explorations in the intersections between art, science and technology. Rather than pandering to 118,00 the prevailing art historical assumption that kinetic sculpture is merely a precursor to art in a Softcover digital culture, the book proposes that perhaps kineticism succeeded too well, where movement has become a ubiquitous element of the aesthetic of contemporary art. If, as Boris 89,99 € | £79.99 | $109.99 [1]96,29 € (D) | 98,99 € (A) | CHF Groys has recently suggested, installation has become the dominant mode of art in the 106,50 contemporary age, then movement in real time with the viewer is used to aestheticise and explore the facets of our peculiar time. eBook 74,89 € | £63.99 | $84.99 [2]74,89 € (D) | 74,89 € (A) | CHF 85,00 Available from your library or springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy

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