Medium Specificity
MS in Context
Around 89'
Recollecting Media History
Medium Aspecificity/ Autopoietic Form
100
The quality or condition of being specific
What is Specificity
100
The Critical discourse of art continues to articulate the formalist credo of what?
What is Media
100
The political upheavals of 1989 not only redrew the political map of Europe; they also lent new force to a process comprised under the umbrella term -what?
What is Globalization
100
As the title suggests this exhibition examined Utopias that had been repressed from contemporary consciousness?
What is Vergessene Zaukunft (Forgotten Future)
100
Is an example of art whose form rather than medium, is recursive
What is Maria Eichhorn Public limited company
200
Comprised of both materials and a set of conventions an artist uses to make work.
What is Medium
200
Argued that the latter bears partial responsibility for what she sees as a loss of what in contemporary art?
What is Medium specificity
200
Globalization left its mark on the eras artistic discourses about media, as exemplified by what project?
What is the message as medium
200
A Work of art that makes use of many or all art forms?
What is gesamtkunstwerk
200
This author stated that “charts my conviction as a critic that the abandonment of the specific medium spells the death of serious art.”
What is Rosalind Krauss
300
By the mid 1960s and 70’s those associated with minimal and conceptual art began to produce works that either blurred the boundaries or pushed them aside altogether of what aspect of art?
What is Media
300
A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation
What is Allegory
300
”The message as a medium” took place exclusively in this type of media?
What is print media
300
The work of montage in the space thus appeared as a time-bound process of self-reflective remedialization.
What is Le Corbusier’s office
300
This approach to art conceives art art’s autonomy as operative, rather than merely ideological or aesthetic.
What is Autopoietic form
400
What institutions does medium specificity still bear on? (Where departments are commonly organized around medium)
What is Art schools and museums
400
This conception helps us to understand the widespread use, in descriptions of site-specific work from the 1990’s, of the concept of “layers”, whose topological nature allowed critics to think time in the sense of “placed time” and nonlinear processes.
What is The praxis of allegorical montage
400
The terms Draxler uses to designate the general framework that constitutes these media (as a space of the public)
What is The economic sphere, information, and science
400
In what decade was there a rising popularity of ideas about the harmony between art and an aesthetic social hygiene.
What is 1950's
400
This German sociologist whose elaboration of the systes theory during the 1980-90’s has greatly influenced the analysis of communicative structures in socilogy, science and law.
What is Niklas Luhmann
500
In a world increasingly dominated by its visual culture the question of medium is one way to particularize art and see how it functions differently from?
What is Element of visuality
500
Media specificity is said to depend on mediums particular function. What were the five examples given in the text?
What is documentation, information, communication, participation, interaction
500
Alexander Alberro came up with the strategy that, by circulating exhibitions in the form of media of distribution, broke with the notion that art is primarily at home in galleries and museums.
What is "Politics of Publicity"
500
Vareses abstract composition and xenakis’s design based on mathematical formulae proved to be a synaesthetic gesamtkunstwerk made of what 4 medias
What is Architecture, Music, film, and light.
500
The one central task of the “Historian” of contemporary art
What is To excavate the organic line that lies between these various configurations, to give the organic line that lies between these various configurations, to give texture to how this boundary delineates inside limits from outside space, and to chart the “mutant coordinates” of experience produced in it’s wake.
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