Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment

Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment

Curating new media art exhibitions challenges the understanding of how new media technologies reconfigure user’s relation to reality. Artists explore the potential of new communication models to encode ideas and experiences that relate to familiar concepts and to new paradigms. The paper presents tw...

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Main Authors: Narvika Bovcon, Aleš Vaupotič
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Arts 2011-11-01
Series:Acta Graphica
Subjects:
New Media Art
Video
Digital Image
Interactive Installation
Curatorial Practices
Postmedia Condition
Artnetlab
Online Access:http://www.actagraphica.hr/images/stories/Acta_2011_1-2_str_35-40.pdf
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spelling doaj-2faefd7f1f944b9cab23ec85c1fc34402020-11-24T23:16:27ZengUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic ArtsActa Graphica0353-47072011-11-01221-2/ 113338Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and EntertainmentNarvika BovconAleš VaupotičCurating new media art exhibitions challenges the understanding of how new media technologies reconfigure user’s relation to reality. Artists explore the potential of new communication models to encode ideas and experiences that relate to familiar concepts and to new paradigms. The paper presents two aspects that characterize communication in new media, its problematic materiality and playfulness,and illustrates them with two ArtNetLab group exhibitions: Immaterial and Enter/tain. The object that the curatorial practice reconstructs in the two experimental exhibitions is the attitude that the gallery visitor or the user assumes when coming into contact with a communicative artifact.http://www.actagraphica.hr/images/stories/Acta_2011_1-2_str_35-40.pdfNew Media ArtVideoDigital ImageInteractive InstallationCuratorial PracticesPostmedia ConditionArtnetlab
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author Narvika Bovcon
Aleš Vaupotič
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Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
Acta Graphica
New Media Art
Video
Digital Image
Interactive Installation
Curatorial Practices
Postmedia Condition
Artnetlab
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Aleš Vaupotič
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title Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
title_short Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
title_full Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
title_fullStr Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
title_full_unstemmed Curating New Media by Focusing on the Recipient’s Attitude: Immateriality and Entertainment
title_sort curating new media by focusing on the recipient’s attitude: immateriality and entertainment
publisher University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Arts
series Acta Graphica
issn 0353-4707
publishDate 2011-11-01
description Curating new media art exhibitions challenges the understanding of how new media technologies reconfigure user’s relation to reality. Artists explore the potential of new communication models to encode ideas and experiences that relate to familiar concepts and to new paradigms. The paper presents two aspects that characterize communication in new media, its problematic materiality and playfulness,and illustrates them with two ArtNetLab group exhibitions: Immaterial and Enter/tain. The object that the curatorial practice reconstructs in the two experimental exhibitions is the attitude that the gallery visitor or the user assumes when coming into contact with a communicative artifact.
topic New Media Art
Video
Digital Image
Interactive Installation
Curatorial Practices
Postmedia Condition
Artnetlab
url http://www.actagraphica.hr/images/stories/Acta_2011_1-2_str_35-40.pdf
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