The kiss of death and its social and cultural context

an introduction to the emergence of technological or digital art

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.148923

Keywords:

digital art, art and technology, social history of art, contemporary art, new media

Abstract

In this text, we investigate the emergence of the artistic practices designated by the term Art, Science and Technology (AST) in the United States and Europe. Usually recognized by the labels Digital or Technological Art, AST is an umbrella term that arguably includes artistic practices concerned with the adoption, theorization and diffusion of new postwar technologies. Nevertheless, we argue that it is the institutional configuration that best delimits the boundaries of AST. Through an investigation unconcerned with the legitimation of this production, we review the social and cultural context that made the AST possible. Regarding its relation with contemporary art, our results ascertain an isolated, highly specialized and mainly autonomous artistic practice. 

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Author Biography

  • German Alfonso Nunez, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brasil

    German Alfonso Nunez é PhD em História da Arte pela University of the Arts London. Pesquisador pós-doutor no Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo. Financiada pela Fapesp (Processo 2017/13635-5), sua pesquisa se preocupa com o percurso das práticas artísticas reconhecidas pelos rótulos de arte digital, eletrônica, tecnológica ou, ainda, arte e novos meios, no Brasil. Coeditor do recente Handbook of popular culture and biomedicine: knowledge in the life sciences as cultural artefact (Springer, 2018). Também integra o coletivo de arte computacional [+zero], indicado para o Prêmio Pipa 2011. 

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Published

2019-05-12

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 35 (2019): Dossiê Membranas: intersecções entre arte, ciência e tecnologia

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Articles

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Nunez, G. A. (2019). The kiss of death and its social and cultural context: an introduction to the emergence of technological or digital art. ARS, 17(35), 93-115. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.148923