<nettime> V2_Organisation: Book for the Electronic Arts (2000)

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Commissioned by V2_Organisation,  Arjen Mulder and Maaike Post wrote

BOOK FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS

In the past 25 years the electronic arts have left their pioneering days
behind and grown into a fully fledged and richly varied form of art.
Electronic art concerns both an artistic approach to technological devices
and a technological approach to artistic concepts. Electronic art
necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is
exactly what is done in the five essays included here. These essays
describe the cultural, scientific, art historic, military-political and
socioeconomic backgrounds with which electronic art is in dialogue.

The electronic arts as described here include spectacular devices such as
Dutch artist Erik Hobijn's "suicide machine" and the "third arm" of
Australian body artist Stelarc, and sophisticated interactive
installations like those of Germany's Ulrike Gabriel and Japan's Seiko
Mikami. They also include complex Internet projects by the Austrian/German
Knowbotic Research (IO_dencies) and the English art inspiration Roy Ascott
and the motion architecture of Rotterdam's Lars Spuybroek/NOX. These and
other artists are given a voice in the "Book for the Electronic Arts."
Also included are interviews with pioneers and theorists of electronic art
like Dick Raaijmakers, Peter Weibel, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Kodwo
Eshun.

The Book for the Electronic Arts is lavishly illustrated with full-color
photographs and other documents from the archives of V2_Organisation in
Rotterdam, where over the past twenty years, virtually everything that was
of interest in electronic art or was later proven to be has been
presented.



The book is published by de Balie Publishers and V2_Organisation,
distribution outside the Netherlands by Idea Books.

21 x 28 cm, 184 pages, design Joke Brouwer, NLG 45.-
ISBN 90-6617-255-X

(available both in English and in Dutch)

Mail order via http://www.v2.nl/store


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