Self-productive practices,, interdisciplinary avant-garde, collaborative tools in new media, proximity, alternative history structures, content shortcuts, community effects, collective memory The paper will examine the self-referentiality and tools for its development introduced by the avant-garde, experimental interdisciplinary arts movements and will follow these practices in new media. It will survey how theoretical and artistic self-referencing in variety of media have had been a constitutive part of historic collaborative movements. A chapter will be devoted to New Media and will see internet and tools like mailing lists, blogs, wikis and ad-hoc networks as multimedia platforms for self-referentiality. The paper will argue that self-referentiality differs from independent media as it is rather serving as a tool of the internal dialogue, creative collaborative co-production, and invention of new vocabulary.
Abstract The paper will examine self-referentiality and tools for its development introduced by experimental interdisciplinary avant-garde arts movements and will follow these practices in new media. It will survey how theoretical and artistic self-referencing and self-documenting in variety of media have had been a constitutive part of historic collaborative movements: DADA (texts), Surrealism (text/photo/film), post-war American Avant-garde Cinema (text/film), a number sound artists' collectives (sound/text) etc. A chapter will be devoted to New Media and will see internet and tools like mailing lists, blogs, wikis and ad-hoc networks as multimedia platforms for self-referentiality. The paper will argue that self-referentiality differs from independent media as it is rather serving as a tool of the internal dialogue, creative collaborative co-production and invention of new vocabulary. The paper will examine the constitutive structures of experimental art movements; it will investigate in notions of "proximity", "shortcut" and "new technologies" in artist practices as well as address alternative history, writing and community effects triggered by artists work. The paper will refer to the theses of media specificity by Friedrich Kittler and concepts of creative "production" and "solidarity" by Richard Rorty. The chapter of New Media can feature international examples as well as examples of artists' initiatives in Eastern Europe: Riga, Moscow, Zagreb and Bucharest. |
