programmatic key texts

Programmatic Key Texts – from 2004, during the lead-up time to Refresh!

Dieter Daniels - What is the point of art in the media age?

Sara Diamond - Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions

Jean Gagnon - Collecting, preserving and archiving the media arts

Oliver Grau - Integrating Media Art into our Culture

Tom Gunning - Illusions Past and Future: The Phantasmagoria and its Specters

Erkki Huhtamo - Trouble at the Interface, or the Identity Crisis of Interactive Art

Douglas Kahn - Digits on the historical pulse: Being a way to think about how so much is happening and has happened in sound in the arts

Ryszard W. Kluszczyński - After Brunelleschi, after Alberti…

Lev Manovich – Abstraction and Complexity

W.J.T Mitchell - There Are No Visual Media

Gunalan Nadarajan - Phytodynamics and Plant Difference

Christiane Paul - Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media

Frank Popper (interviewed conducted by Joseph Nechvatal) - Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper

Edward Shanken - Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon

Barbara Maria Stafford - Still Trapped in Transcendance. Coherence vs. the Lure of Elsewhere

Peter Weibel - The Allusive Eye. Illusion, Anti-Illusion, Allusion