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Title

Writing media art into (and out of) history

Author(s)

Tofts, Darren

Abstract

This paper will review the context of the development of interactive media art within Australia in the 1990s. It is particularly interested in the conditions that enable arts practices to galvanize into an arts culture. Such conditions include publishing, the role of criticism and debate, funding, advocacy and the curation of focussed and dedicated exhibitions. The paper will seek to ask some questions answers as to why the conditions of an emerging media arts culture in the 1990s have virtually lost momentum. And why, ultimately. the very notion of media arts has become annexed as a minor moment in the history of the moving image.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences

Source

Proceedings of 'Re:live: media art history 2009', the 3rd International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26-29 November 2009 / Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas (eds.), pp. 161-166

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies;  200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified

Keyword(s)

Advocacy;  Australian media arts;  Critical practice;  Media arts;  Media arts history;  Media arts venues;  Media studies

Publisher

University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the Arts and Music

ISBN

9780980718638

Publisher URL

http://www.mediaarthistory.org/relive/

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Darren Tofts. This collection is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/). Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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