Les Nouvelles Technologies et le Retour au “Primitivisme” de l’art
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Electronic Art and Audience
Presentation Title:
- Les Nouvelles Technologies et le Retour au “Primitivisme” de l’art
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Abstract:
The digital revolution is the most radical and rapid that humanity has ever known. Interactive electronic art successfully responds to the aspirations of the dominant middle class. The reconciliation between art and society recalls more and more the function of art in so-called “primitive” societies. The chasm which imbedded itself into the system of fine arts beginning with the Renaissance, and still further intensified by the paroxysms of the avant-garde of the 1970’s, is now overwhelmed. Television images and computer icons evoke a modern variation of African masks, and multimedia works are rediscovering the “primitive” pleasures of the multisensorial: visual, dance, music, olfactory and tactile are mixed together. The “Gutenberg Galaxy” is drawing to a close.
