beautyme collections culture cuisine motor music search |
RE-PLAY Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria
May 12 - August 6, 2000 The rapid development of communication and recording technologies after the World War II raised the artists' interest in the aesthetic, political, and social influence of mass distribution and global communication. In the late sixties and early seventies, artists in Austria - some of them coming from action art and Expanded Cinema - started to work with audiovisual home technologies which then were new on the market (video equipment, stereo magneto-phone, audio cassette). In doing so, Austrian media-art pioneers were fully integrated in an inter-national information network on current art trends, gathering experience abroad or placing their independent approaches in context with those made by international artists, notably in Germany and North America. |
|