Media parasites in the early avant-garde
Subtitle: on the abuse of technology and communication
By: Arndt Niebisch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137276858
Subjects: Arts; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Experimental methods; PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / History & Criticism; Communication and the arts; Technology and the arts; History; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "The avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century inhabited the media discourses of their time like parasites, constantly irritating and taking from them. Dadaists ripped images of a mechanically reproduced world out of newspapers and magazines and reassembled them in their collages. Futurists instrumentalized the brevity of telegraph messages for their free word poetics. Artists such as F.T. Marinetti, Raoul Hausmann and Luigi Russolo constantly abused existing media technologies and hijacked public communication. This study traces these subversive tactics from avant-garde poetry to media technological experiments with radio tubes"--