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"Sensing the future"
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Botar, Oliver Arpad Istvan
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Botar, Oliver Arpad Istvan
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
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Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung
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Moholy-Nagy, László
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avantgarde
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foto's
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kunstbeschouwingen
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mediakunst
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multimedia
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schilderijen
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techniek en kunst
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""Finding a way to deal with the flood of digital information and images, the changing relationship between people and technology, and the accompanying tendency toward progressive disembodiment are widely debated topics today. In his art and experimental usage of new media the avant-garde artist and Bauhaus professor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) anticipated today’s debates. As early as the 1920s he was convinced that people needed assistance in managing an environment increasingly dominated by technology, overwhelming sensory stimuli, and--Moholy-Nagy’s foresight is nearly prophetic here--the advent of digital culture. In Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts author Oliver A. I. Botar examines the methods Moholy-Nagy explored in his work with technology, posing the question as to whether he might even be considered a pioneer of the digital. The book introduces younger readers to this groundbreaking figure, underscoring the relevance of Moholy-Nagy’s work for contemporary artists and art making."-- On back of cover."@en
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""It has been almost a decade since this book first appeared, and it has been out of print for a few years now. So it is with great pleasure that I introduce this second, corrected printing of the English edition of Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts. I wish to thank Lars Müller for agreeing to this enterprise, to Mickey Salgo for his generosity in making it possible, and to the studio of Olafur Eliasson, to Patrick Harrop, and Lancelot Coar for providing fresh texts and images on the Berlin showing of their respective works in 2014-15. Except in a very few cases where I deemed it important to do so, I have not revised the text. Rather, I have proofread it and have corrected any typographical or other errors that had crept in. I regard this book as representing the state of knowledge as it was in 2013-14 and did not wish to add any new interpretations or much new information that has arisen since then. The book continues to stand on its own as a book, even as it also acts as a document of the exhibition that took place in Winnipeg and Berlin."-- Oliver A.I. Botar (page 6 of introduction)."@en
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""Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the practice of the Hungarian polymath artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), a prominent professor at the Bauhaus and a key figure in the history of Modernism. Moholy-Nagy felt that people needed guidance to cope with the onslaught of sensory input in an increasingly technologized, mediatized, hyper-stimulating environment. His ideas informed media theorists such as Walter Benjamin, John Cage, Sigfried Giedion, and Marshall McLuhan, who anticipated digital culture as it emerged. Should we then regard Moholy-Nagy as a pioneer of the digital? His aesthetic engagement with the technology/body problematic broached the notions of immersion, interactivity and bodily participation, innately offering a critique of today's disembodiment. Was he then both a pioneer and a proto-critic of the digital? This book is intended to introduce this seminal figure of post-medial practices to younger generations and, by including responses to his work by contemporary artists, to reflect on the ways in which his work is relevant to artistic practice now. Having been highly praised by experts, this classic receives a second and slightly revised edition."-- Provided by publisher."@en
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Botar, Oliver Arpad Istvan
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