Main entry:

Botar, Oliver A. I. (Oliver Arpad Istvan), 1957- author.

Title & Author:

Sensing the future : Moholy-Nagy, media and the arts / Oliver A.I. Botar.

Publication:

[Zurich, Switzerland] : Lars Müller Publishers, [2023]
©2023

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Series:

avant-garde transfers ; 2

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibtion of the same name at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, March 8-June 1, 2014 and Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany, October 8, 2014-January 12, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.
Sensory training -- Production-reproduction -- Gesamtwerk -- Immersion / participation -- Projection spaces -- Transparency / reflection / motion -- Art as information / information as art -- Telehor 1936 and the crisis of media art -- Commissioned artworks with artists' statements.

Summary:

"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 polymath 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.

ISBN:

3037787465 (hardback)
9783037787465 (hardback)

Subject:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 Exhibitions.
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 Criticism and interpretation.
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
Moholy-Nagy, László 1895-1946
Moholy-Nagy, László.
Mass media and the arts.
Technology and the arts.
Digital media Social aspects.
Médias et arts.
Technologie et arts.
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
Plug In ICA (Gallery), host institution.
Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, host institution.
Avant-garde transfers ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319697
Call No.: 319697
Copy: 1
Status: Available