MediaArtHistories

International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today’s media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines – film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. 2007 edited and initiated by Oliver Grau

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