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1. Dieter Daniels «Media → Art / Art → Media
Forerunners of media art in the first half of the twentieth century» scope for a new definition of the medium deriving from receivers, rather than broadcasters. In his 1951 composition «Imaginary Landscape No. 4» and some other pieces he used the radio as a musical instrument. The score instructs twenty-four performers to [more] |
2. Inke Arns «Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication» Fluxus movements in the 1950s and 1960s. John Cage's famous compositions «4'33''» (1952) or «Imaginary Landscape No. 4» (1951) can be cited as exemplifying the «open work.» The piece «433» consists of four minutes [more] |