Immer anders, immer gleich - Ein Versuch über Kunst und Systeme / Always different, always the same. An Essay about Art and Systems (German/English)

hrsg. von Lynn Kost; Texte von Walead Beshty, Francis Halsall, Lynn Kost, Stephan Kunz, Dieter Schwarz sowie ein umfangreiches Glossar

ISBN 10: 3864422558 / ISBN 13: 9783864422553

Published by Snoeck, Köln, 2018

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Z : 240 Seiten mit 150 farbigen Abbildungen. Softcover mit Schutzumschlag - Die Publikation zeigt repräsentative Werke der 1960er und 1970er Jahre zusammen mit zeitgenössischer Kunst, die sich mit heute systemrelevanten Fragen der Prozesshaftigkeit, der Datenverarbeitung, der Informationsver­zerrung und der Systemkompatibilität auseinander­setzen. Digitale Systeme und Software gehören für diese zeitgenössischen Kunstschaffenden ebenso zu ihren Werkzeugen wie Prinzipien des Systemdenkens.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Immer anders, immer gleich - Ein Versuch über Kunst und Systeme / Always different, always the same. An Essay about Art and Systems (German/English)
• Publisher: Snoeck, Köln
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: Multiple languages
• ISBN 10: 3864422558
• ISBN 13: 9783864422553
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Gut bis sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren
• Dimensions: 21W x 27H x 0D centimeters 21 centimeters width by 27 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gegenwartskunst
  • Medientheorie
  • Digitale Bilder

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Synopsis

During the 1960s, the art world’s interest in systems grew quite exponentially, running parallel to the social upheavals and the fundamentally critical view of the system held by thinkers of the era. Rather more consequential, from today’s point of view, were the technological advances: the development of cybernetics, communication networks, and ­computer systems that turned the exchange of information into an important social and economic factor. This exhibition and this publication con­sider art of the 1960s and early 1970s with regard to systems thinking, conceiving it as communication and critique of the system. The works formally used the principles of systems thinking to debate content; the viewers had to take up position both spatially and intellectually and thus turned into significant parts of the works. Fifty years later, systems thinking is more critical than ever. This exhibition and publication show ­representative works of the 1960s and 1970s in combination with contemporary art that examines important issues regarding the nature of data processing, infor­mation distortion, and system compatibility. Digital systems and software are as much tools for these contemporary artists as the principles of systemized thinking. They frequently address just this dependency on systems and codes and thus make their mode of operation ­visible. The book and the exhibition Always ­Different, Always the Same form an open art-historical reference system and provide a variety of cross-references between the different artworks and decades.

About the Author

Lynn Kost was from 2004 to 2011 artistic director of the Fumetto – International Comix Festival in Lucerne, before he moved to the Swiss Museum Allerheilingen in Schaffhausen and to Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. Here he curated in 2018 the show Always Different, Always the Same. Kost has since moved to Kunstmuseum Winterthur, where he is responsible for the program of contemporary art.