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Arts, Media, Cultures: Histories of Hybridisation

Nowadays we are faced with an enormous development of digital, information and communication technologies. Together with numerous phenomena, which are the products of activities that belong to the biotechnosphere, these technologies build a complex corpus called cyberculture. In this context art has an important, critical role to play. In particular (multi)media art can serve as an experimental laboratory, not only for new technologies but, especially, for studies of the new social relation(ship)s created or fuelled by those technologies. Media and multimedia information and communication technologies generate new promises, problems, and threats; and artists undertake efforts to examine this emerging area that has been repeatedly considered as a ‘post-biological syndrome’. In other words, artists do not only use media technologies, but also scrutinise and challenge them. In this sense the new (multi)media art could be deemed a successor of the avant-garde movement.

Key Words: (multi)media art • identity • Jozef Robakowski • Sanja Ivekovic • Anna Baumgart • Kinga Araya

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 11, No. 4, 124-132 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177//1354856505061059


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