A journey through time through the changeable history of media art

A journey through time through the changeable history of media art

Peter Kogler with curator Maria Venzl before a work from 1986
The American artist Claudia Hart (left) with curator Julia Staudach
The artist duo Chiara Kristler, Marcin Ratajczyk, invented the AI ​​”Flynn”.

By Peter Kogler, who was stimulated in 1985 for a reorientation in his work during a stay in New York, about Claudia Hart, who has been translating feminist concerns into digital art for decades to the artist duo Malpractice, which has developed a KI called Flynn at the University of Applied Arts: Giving three exhibitions in the Francisco Carolinum in Linz since yesterday In the changeable history of media art. They can be seen until February 8th.

Peter Kogler’s show “Alphabet City” (curated by Maria Venzl) illuminated a stay in New York 1985. A year earlier, he had started to artistically deal with the computer and its graphics programs. Since then, the 66-year-old has been one of the central figures in media art, in 1988 he received the Prix Ars Electronica. The cardboard objects created in New York, with their serial structures, fit seamlessly into later computer art, which he still produced at the time. New York was formative for him, he says: “At that time the art scene was still manageable and permeable. I met artists like John Baldessari today.” The show shows Kogler’s photos (see Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, for example) and works that were created before and after New York. Explant texts would have been helpful for visitors.

The American artist Claudia Hart (left) with curator Julia Staudach
Image: Herbert Schorn

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The American artist Claudia Hart (left) with curator Julia Staudach
Image: Herbert Schorn

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