HKUK03635U Kunsthistorie/Visuel kultur/Moderne kultur: Netkunst AFLYST

The focus of the seminar will stay the key works and key personalities or groups that have shaped the internet art since the early 1990s.

Today's contemporary art is characterized by an enhanced engagement with communication and information forms. It moves away from static representation towards procedural structures and transformations and leads to the transgressions between genres, media and methods. The related works (or rather: "projects") are frequently characterized by processuality, fugitiveness, usage of cooperation forms in various public contexts and the mixing of the artistic practice and everyday culture.

The objectives of the course include the training of selection ability, the contextualization of the net art works and their connection to individuals and institutions. A profound analysis of net art always means always a confrontation with the respective net itself and with the own reception or consummation habits. The documentary, research-based approach and the usual "network behavior" must therefore always be reflected itself. The artworks and their strategies build therefore the starting point of an open research process in which a stance on net art with its relations to the contemporary art is to be developed or revised. The so-called "virtualization skills" are to be trained in the process, i.e. an ability to think possibilities. It is not least about a "design ability" (M. Fassler) which should enable to the own actions in media environments.