Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History

Joasia Krysa (Editor), Jussi Parikka (Editor), Erkki Huhtamo (Foreword by)

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Author
Joasia Krysa (Editor), Jussi Parikka (Editor), Erkki Huhtamo (Foreword by)
Publish Date
2015-09-11
Subtitle
Erkki Kurenniemi In 2048
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
368
Publisher Name
The MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262029588
ISBN-13
9780262029582
citemno
251598
Edition
First Edition
SKU
9780262029582

Description

A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi—composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist.
Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrid—a scientist-humanist-artist. Relatively unknown outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition, ”In 2048,” Kurenniemi may at last be achieving international recognition. This book offers an excavation, a critical mapping, and an elaboration of Kurenniemi's multiplicities.
The contributors describe Kurenniemi's enthusiastic, and rather obsessive, recording of everyday life and how this archiving was part of his process; his exploratory artistic practice, with productive failure an inherent part of his method; his relationship to scientific and technological developments in media culture; and his work in electronic and digital music, including his development of automated composition systems and his “video-organ,” DIMI-O. A “Visual Archive,” a section of interviews with the artist, and a selection of his original writings (translated and published for the first time) further document Kurenniemi's achievements. But the book is not just about one artist in his time; it is about emerging media arts, interfaces, and archival fever in creative practices, read through the lens of Kurenniemi.