Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media

by Margot Lovejoy

Postmodern Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the important economic, social, and aesthetic issues these new technologies imply.

Genres: Art

319 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

Reviews

[Niki Sehmbi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clear and easy to read. Discusses the evolution of digital media and the future of what it may become. She even suggests that all artists should now be in some way involved in digital media and art-making because art should reflect society today. Artists who haven't jumped on that wagon are not participating in contemporary art in her opinion.