Ursula Hentschlaeger
NetWork
1999
If art becomes a synonym for culture,
achievements of culture – which, in this context, means
technoculture in particular – can be stylised into works
of art. The paradox about the transformation sought here is
that this is only what makes it possible to create a link
between innovations, such as technical progress, and human
beings.
As a consequence, structures of technology
and economic policy which can clearly be classified as
sociological in nature reveal their functional strong points as
they incorporate a category that is hard to grasp and can be
applied at random: the myth of art. The insight might not be
new but it is always surprising: art makes "sense".
BACKGROUND
ART ON THE WEB
Ill. Hofstetter
Kurt: Moving Moments, Web-Project, Screenshot 1998 (cutout)
Paramour. Art in Context of New
Technologies
(together with Katharina Gsoellpointner)
The point of departure for the publication
was a wish to analyse relevant theoretical approaches such as
the ones discussed in detail here, eventually leading to a
model of NewMediaArt (Part 1), and to look at the
"material" for such art; the latter attempt is about
art on the World Wide Web as an example of the loaded field in
which media art acts (Part 2). Both parts focus on the
engagement with notions from the debate about media art.
Part 1 | NewMediaArt | Katharina Gsoellpointner
Part 2 | NetWork | Ursula Hentschlaeger
Central sections of NetzWerk can also be
found in the doctoral thesis "Die Welt im Web"
(The World on the Web), loc. cit.
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