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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
Explore a broad variety of digital imagery, the most contemporary
fine art. "Every generation invents a new artistic technique or
medium to create new ways to express the concepts, thoughts and
feelings of the age. The painter's brush is an extension of her
hand, just as the computer is the extension of the creative mind."
Gloria King Merritt, Digital Artist
Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's
recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months
- June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in
New York indulged the ambience of sound and light: James Turrell at
the Guggenheim, Soundings at MoMA, Robert Irwin at the Whitney, and
Janet Cardiff at the Met. In addition, two notable shows at smaller
galleries indicate that this is not simply a major-donor movement.
Collectively, these shows constitute a proposal about what we
wanted from art in 2013. While we're in the soft embrace of light,
the NSA and Facebook are still collecting our data, the money in
our bank accounts is still being used to fund who-knows-what
without our knowledge or consent, the government we elected is
still imprisoning and targeting people with whom we have no beef.
We deserve an art that is the equal of our information age. Not one
that parrots the age's self-assertions or modes of dissemination,
but an art that is hyper-aware, vigilant, active, engaged, and
informed. We are now one hundred years clear of Duchamp's first
readymades. So why should we find ourselves so thoroughly in thrall
to ambience? Against Ambience argues for an art that acknowledges
its own methods and intentions; its own position in the structures
of cultural power and persuasion. Rather than the warm glow of
light or the soothing wash of sound, Against Ambience proposes an
art that cracks the surface of our prevailing patterns of
encounter, initiating productive disruptions and deconstructions.
An intense, thrilling action screenplay When the post-apocalyptic
world, weary from the long fight, was struggling to get back on its
feet, those who remained longed for the fear and chaos to end.
Unfortunately this led to the rise of Tyrants. A time where they
and their soldiers controlled their City-States with brutality and
hate. The worst of these Warlords is Police Mayor Syron and his
City-State of Sideon. With so much uncertainty and hopelessness
from Syron's ironclad rule, how can the people know the revolution
will happen? Because Roman, a former soldier and ex mercenary, is
returning to Sideon to start it.
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