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With the emergence of new communication media,
a wide variety of conceptual art practices pursued the proliferation
of their works via channels of mainstream media. Since the late
1960ies artists have strategically explored the possibilities of
inserting critical information into communication systems as impulses
of empowerment to establish a critical counter public. Based on
old and new communication channels, including print media (newspapers,
journals, artists' books, art editions, copy art, billboards),
postal services (Mail Art), television or fax transmission and
computer technology (Net Art) as tools for critical and political
engagement, artworks in fusion with communication media bear witness
to the rapid transformation of interaction modes in the 20th and
21st centuries. 'Art In-Formation' explores the alternative dimensions
of established technological facilities in terms of their creative
potential and as platforms for the formation of internationally
networked artist initiatives, particularly in Eastern Europe, and
Latin America whose dissident group structures anticipated new
forms of international collaborations. In distinction to artist
group formations of the classical avant-garde, strategic media
usage since the 1960ies has clearly contributed to rather inclusive
than exclusive new forms of collaboration.
The symposium intends to confront the most current developments in
communication and information based artworks with pioneering historical
works, which will allow for a better examination and contextualization
of key debates on conceptual developments and collaborative systems
in late 20th and early 21st century culture.
Die Tagung wird vom Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen
/ ASPC im Zusammenhang des Forschungsverbunds Künstlerpublikationen
veranstaltet. Der Forschungsverbund wird getragen von der Universität
Bremen, der Jacobs University Bremen, der Hochschule für Künste,
der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa und der Weserburg – Museum
für moderne Kunst Bremen / Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen. |
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