A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art
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This article examines the lesser-known history of artistic self-representation in digital art, from the beginning of computer art to the present day. The genre has thematic as well as formal diversity: it is a product of artists working with electronic devices such as video synthesizers or digitizers, webcams, digital image and video editing tools, the internet, avatars, and social media platforms. Artistic self-representation in computer-based and digital art has been an underrepresented topic in art history and must be more closely studied in order to be integrated into the art historical canon. This article aims to give an overview of artistic self-representation in digital art from early computer art until today.
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Kohle, Hubertus, and Katja Kwastek. Computer, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte. Cologne: Deubner, 2003
Lieser, Wolf, ed. Digital Art, Neue Wege in der Kunst. Rheinbreitbach: h.f.ullmann publishing, 2010
Locker, Melissa. Andy Warhol’s Lost Amiga Computer Art Recovered After 30 Years. Accessed February 28, 2020. time.com/75658/andy-warhol-amiga-art-recovered
Lorch, Catrin. “Endlich Frei.” Sueddeutsche Zeitung. October 17,2019. sueddeutsche.de/kultur/museum-of-modern- art-kunstgeschichte-1.4642936
Manetas, Miltos. “Websites, the art of our times.” Accessed February 28, 2020. manetas.com/eo/wb/files/man.htm
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Moll, Sebastian, “Abschied von den 100 weißen Männern.” Sueddeutsche Zeitung. October 21,2019. sueddeutsche.de/ kultur/museum-of-modern-art-moma-wiedereroeffnungnew-york-1.4642938
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Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003/2015
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Pfisterer, Ulrich, and Valeska von Rosen, eds. Der Künstler als Kunstwerk. Selbstporträts vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2005
Reichardt, Jasia. Cybernetic Serendipity. the computer and the arts, London: Studio International Foundation, 2018
Respini, Eva. Art in the Age of the Internet. 1989 to Today. Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art ; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018
Ryan, Marie-Laure, and Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson. Guide To Digital Media. Baltimore: J. Hopkins University Press, 2014
Shanken, Edward A.. Art and Electronic Media. London and New York City: Phaidon, 2009
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen. Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995
Vergara, Erandy. Electronic Traces: Archaeological Perspectives of Media Art in Mexico. Accessed September 9, 2020. archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=430
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Weidinger, Alfred, and Anika Meier, eds. Virtual Normality. The Female Gaze in the Age of the Internet. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2018
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English
Keywords
Digital art, contemporary art, contemporary visual culture, media art, portrait, social media content, self-representation
How to Cite
Sauerlaender , Tina. 2020. “A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art”. International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 5 (December):3.2-3.17. https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2020.5.77407.
