Analivia Cordeiro – a female perspective in media art. Considered a pioneer in both video art and computer-based video dance as well as an innovator in body art, the Brazilian artist, dancer, and choreographer Analívia Cordeiro (*1954) has been developing since the early 1970s a continuous and intense work exploring the relationships between body, movement, visual and audiovisual art as well as media art. “No matter what age, no matter how much dance experience, everyone can learn through movement." (A. Cordeiro) Since the early 1970s, Analívia Cordeiro has been one of the first female video artists to influence all of South America's media art. This publication presents the artist's body of work up to the present. In addition to an introductory text by the editor, it contains an interview with the artist, and a selection of texts by various authors and the artist herself. An extensive section of works with many illustrations, historical documents and photographs as well as a detailed biography and bibliography complete the book.

Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and ‘materialized’ using digital technologies. How can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called ‘Aesthetics of the Digital’, referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena. For the first time, this publication brings together international and trans-historical research perspectives to explore how digital technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the sculptural leading into the (post-)digital age. Up-to-date research on digital technologies’ expansion of the concept of sculpture Linking historical sculptural debates with discourse on the new media and (post-)digital culture