Media archaeology: questioning the new in media arts

• Autor(a) principal: Parikka, Jussi
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/71569
• topic: Teoria das mídias. Arqueologia das mídias. Artemídia. Mídias digitais. Tecnologia.; Media theory. Digital media. Archaeology of media. Media arts. Aesthetics.

“One of the most persistent things that “new” media arts have actually cocooned during their decades of Post WWII development is an appreciation of the obsolete, old and analogue. It is such a paradox, which however makes the whole issue of media arts more interesting: that the new is potentially less interesting than how the old is remediated, recycled, recursively represented. Media art that employs the newest technologies does not necessarily match up to the innovative ways of digging up old ideas, imaginary media solutions and obsolete analog technologies as ways to demonstrate that our culture is not – and should not be – based on a onetrack assumption of linear progress. What if the parallel existence of the other reality alongside the glitzy digital […] is as important in how such old technologies persist in media art, galleries, curatorial programmes and popular culture?" (Extracted from the original paper)