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Cybernetic Serendipity (1968): 3 Text passages
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1.  Dieter Daniels «Media → Art / Art → Media
Forerunners of media art in the first half of the twentieth century»radically pure form. The utopian-emphatic strategy: Lucio Fontana and television The introduction of television in Italy gave Lucio Fontana his first opportunity in 1952 to hold a dress rehearsal for the artistic use of the medium with a program about the [more]  |
| 2. Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s» with vigor unclouded by actual experience of the medium. This applies to the Futurists in 1933 («La Radia») and to Lucio Fontana in 1952. In the early 1950s, the introduction of television did trigger the beginning of a debate about its possible artistic [more] |
| 3. Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s» in 1992 as «TV-Decoll/age no. 1.» The incision in painting's virgin canvas quite obviously relates directly to Lucio Fontana's «concetto spaziale.» But unlike Fontana, who is looking into the unknown, Vostell already senses that the [more] |
