Media appropriation and explicitation

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Tomas Laurenzo
City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-8389

Abstract

This paper presents a novel characterization of new media art together with an exploration of some key aspects of its practice: I propose that new media art’s defining characteristics are media appropriation and explicitation. With media appropriation I refer to the dialectal inscription into the art practice of the knowledge that allows for some particular technological production. I also propose that new media art’s language is constructed in part via the explicitation of certain aspects of more ‘traditional’ art, and that this explicitation allows for a construction of a new vocabulary. Examples of this are the explicitation of randomness, interaction, programming, or of the role that tools and instruments play, among others.

Keywords: New media art, Appropriation, Explicitation, Art theory

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