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PIONEERS AND EXPERIMENTERS: THE WINDING PATHS OF THE COMPUTER & VIDEO ART IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE TIMES OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Anna MAJ1
Język publikacji: angielski
Artykuł w czasopiśmie
Transformacje Nr 4 (119) 2023, Data publikacji: 31 grudnia 2023r.
Słowa kluczowe: new media art, video art, computer art, political transformations, so-cio-cultural transformations, emigration, experiment, creation, Cen-tral Europe
Streszczenie The beginnings of new media art are connected with creative explorations in the area of new technologies, both analogue and digital. On the one hand, they in-clude artistic experiments in video art, and on the other, the first attempts to write computer programs that would have an aesthetic or artistic dimension. In both of these directions of activities, the critical element is access to technology and technical knowledge at the appropriate level: in the case of video art, it is about access to the most modern equipment in the form of cameras and video recorders, enabling the recording and editing of image and sound, as well as public presen-tation of the artforms, in the case of computer art - to sufficiently advanced com-puter equipment and appropriate programming knowledge that enable writing programs, creative coding and its use in an artistic context. By definition, Central Europe before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the time of political transformation was an area where technocentric creative activities were doomed to failure. In any case, artists encountered various difficulties. These actions are also at least partially late compared to the West. By presenting selected profiles of Polish, Czech, Slovak, German and Serbian creators, I will try to show the spectrum of these problems, the winding artistic and existential paths leading to artis-tic creation in the area of video art and computer art, as well as the diverse economic, technical, cultural and social contexts.
University of Silesia, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0003-3958-267X
E-mail: anna.maj@us.edu.pl