EDWARD A. SHANKEN

As accessibility and understanding of electronic media grow, its use by artists has become both widespread and increasingly instrumental in the latest developments in contemporary art. A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology.Survey Art and technology scholar Edward A. Shanken gives a lucid, engaging evaluation of the subject, contextualizing it in a broader art-historical and political framework and outlining the importance of figures previously neglected by art history.Works provides an extensive colour plate section with extended captions for every artwork. Divided into seven thematic sections, the book follows a broadly chronological approach.Over two hundred artists, including Robert Adrian, Laurie Anderson, Marcel.li Antunez Roca, Blast Theory, Chris Burden, Nancy Burson, John Cage, Donna J. Cox, Douglas Davis, Diller + Scofidio, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Naum Gabo, Hansen + Rubin, Agnes Hegedus, Gary Hill, Susan Hiller, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshio Iwai, Natalie Jeremijenko, Joan Jonas, Gyorgy Kepes, Billy Kluver, Myron Krueger, Ben Laposky, Brenda Laurel, Robert Lazzarini, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Christian Marclay, Mario Merz, Marta Minujin, Bruce Nauman, Simon Penny, Jane Prophet, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Mikami Seiko, Stelarc, Wen-Ying Tsai, James Turrell, Stan VanDerBeek, Steina + Woody Vasulka, Wolf Vostell, Peter Weibel.Documents includes a compendium of artists' statements, plus essays, papers and articles by writers and experts in the field.

Primer estudio minucioso de la miríada de medios electrónicos existentes en la actualidad en todo el mundo, en los ámbitos de la luminotecnia, la robótica, las redes, la realidad virtual e Internet Obras de más de 150 artistas, desde figuras consagradas como Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell y Mario Merz, hasta nuevos valores y pioneros recientes, como Robert Lazzarini, Blast Theory, Granular Synthesis, Simon Penny, Marcel• lí Antúnez Roca y Mikami Seiko La obra hace hincapié en figuras que hasta ahora no habían sido reconocidas por la historia del arte, incluidos ingenieros, técnicos y colaboradores Un análisis lúcido, accesible y riguroso de los medios electrónicos y su constante Evolución Incluye un texto principal exhaustivo, numerosas ilustraciones en color y una amplia antología de documentos originales.