010101: Art in Technological Times.MUSEUM OF MODERN ART modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture). Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of Perhaps it's time to look at "newmedia art" as a response to new media (rather than as work that merely incorporates aspects of the digital world). That, at least, is the premise behind this ambitious, Intelsponsored exhibition. At precisely one minute after midnight on Jan. x, commissions by Mark Napier, Belgium's Entropy8Zuper!, and other early Net-art stars will be launched online. The real-world component of "010101," opening in March, will feature digital art digital art, contemporary art in which computer technology is used in a wide variety of ways to make distinctive works. Digital art was pioneered in the 1970s but only came into its own as a viable art form with the widespread availability of computers, appropriate software, video equipment, sound mixers, and digital cameras toward the end of the 20th cent. and the subsequent development of increasingly sophisticated digital tools. and, surprisingly, some analog works as well: a Brian Eno sound installation, a Sarah Sze assemblage, a Lee Bul sculpture. But the inclusion of Luddites Luddites, name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began in Nottinghamshire, where groups of textile workers, in the name of a mythical figure called Ned Ludd, or King Ludd, destroyed knitting machines, to which they attributed the prevailing unemployment and low wages. isn't paradoxical: All the works here address the ubiquity of digital technology. Mar. 3-July 8. |
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