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Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us
but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future:
Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of technology
by exploring ways it was addressed in the practice of the Hungarian
poly-math artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), a prominent
professor at the Bauhaus and a key figure in the history of
Modernism. Moholy-Nagy felt that people needed guidance to cope
with the onslaught of sensory input in an increasingly
technologized, mediatized, hyper-stimulating environment. His ideas
informed media theorists such as Walter Benjamin, John Cage,
Sigfried Giedion and Marshall McLuhan, who anticipated digital
culture as it emerged. Should we then regard Moholy-Nagy as a
pioneer of the digital? His aesthetic engagement with the
technology/body problematic broached the notions of immersion,
interactivity and bodily participation, innately offering a
critique of today’s disembodiment. Was he then both a pioneer and
a proto-critic of the digital? This book is intended to introduce
this seminal figure of post-medial practices to younger generations
and, by including responses to his work by contemporary artists, to
reflect on the ways in which his work is relevant to artistic
practice now. Having been highly praised by experts, this classic
receives a second and slightly revised edition.
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