Peter Weibel

Thomas Y. Levin

Ursula Frohne

The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice.

Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother

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Anne Thurmann-Jajes

Maria Peters

Jee-Hae Kim

Franziska Rauh

Sarah Schönewald

Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as well as an expanded model for performance and perception. This volume investigates a broad range of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio, and the use of radio as a means of disseminating artistic concepts. With exemplary case studies, its contributions link conceptual, recipient-response-related, and sociocultural issues to matters of relevance to radio art's mediation.

Concepts, Spaces, Practices

Radio as Art

Mona Schieren

Jean-Francois Guiton

With a history of more than 30 years, media art plays an increasingly important role in the international discourse on contemporary art. The reception of canonical video works and electronic media installations is however restricted to temporary and locally defined displays in museum exhibitions or confined to incomplete catalogue documentations. This volume provides a unique combination of theoretical reflections on the reproducibility, preservation of authenticity and juridical implications of emulation techniques with practical approaches to archiving methods and commercial aspects of media art’s accessibility. It is an indispensible guide to the pro’s and con’s for new forms of de-centralized systems of mediation and the growing demands for liberal rules and easy access to online-presentations of media art. Uncomparable to other current publications, the book offers a practical manual with checklists for relevant websites and content profiles of major distribution companies.

Media Art. Strategies of Presentation, Mediation and Dissemination

Present Continuous Past(s)

Moritz Baßler

Benedikt Hjartarson

Sascha Bru

David Ayers

The historical avant-gardes defined themselves largely in terms of their relationship to various versions of realism. At first glance modernism primarily seems to take a counter-position against realism, yet a closer investigation reveals that these relations are more complex. This book is dedicated to the links between realism, modernism and the avant-garde in their international context from the late 19th century up to the present day.

Realisms of the Avant-Garde

Ursula Frohne

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