“Footnotes to the Electronic Bauhaus 2010” presented by Claus
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- History of Computer Art
Presentation Title:
- Footnotes to the Electronic Bauhaus 2010
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When I presented first in 1987 my concept of an Electronic Bauhaus, I pointed to the statement of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy that the school was the catalyst of the visual revolution for the twentieth century. The content and the dimensions have completely shifted since then towards greater scales, greater demands. Our actual environment enlarged towards the biosphere, mainly articulated and anticipated by researchers-philosophers like Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945) and Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). With Vernadsky the biosphere is as much or even more the creation of the Sun as the manifestation of earthly processes. It is the idea of space and the biosphere that enters into today’s Electronic Bauhaus. To be a student of space means to be first of all a student of the biosphere.
