RE-PLAY:
Anfänge internationaler Medienkunst in Österreich
(Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria)
Publication to the exhibition from May to August 2000.
Ed. by Sabine Breitwieser. Preface by Dietrich Karner. Texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Marie-Luise Angerer, Reinhard Braun, Timothey Druckrey, Heidi Grundmann and Gene Youngblood.
The development of communication and recording technologies after the Second World War awakened the interest of artists in the aesthetic, political and social influence of mass distribution and global communication. At the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, artists in Austria, partly coming from Actionism and Expanded Cinema, began to work with the audio-visual home technologies (video equipment, stereo magnetophone, tape cassette) that had just come onto the market. The Austrian pioneers of media art were fully integrated into the international flow of information about current developments in art and gained experience abroad themselves or contextualized their quite independent approaches with those of international artists, primarily from Germany and North America. Internationally top-class exhibitions and symposia focused on questions of a de-materialized, mediatized art as well as the redefinition of the concept of work and author. Feminist approaches and alternative models for the production and distribution of (media) art were also discussed. With a series of cross-border events on performance and media art, on theory and art, Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck became important stations for many of the now best-known international artists in the 1970s, while Austrian artists were increasingly invited to important events in the international art world.
In "RE-PLAY. Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria," Austrian achievements in an international context as well as their dense networking with the international art scene were presented for the first time. In addition to essays by renowned authors such as Marie-Luise Angerer, Reinhard Braun, Timothy Druckrey, Heidi Grundmann, and Gene Youngblood, this publication contains more than 500 works by approximately 80 international artists, including brief descriptions and mostly illustrations, among them central works by pioneers of media art. These conceptual, media-reflexive, and critically oriented productions from the late 1960s to the early 1980s are anchored in a larger context by means of a comprehensive chronology and a biography.
Vito Acconci/USA, Robert Adrian X/CAN/AT, Laurie Anderson/USA, John Baldessari/USA, Gottfried Bechtold/AT, Stephen Beck & Warner Jepson/USA. Lynda Benglis/USA, Trisha Brown/USA, Norbert Brunner/AT, Hank Bull/CAN, Peter Campus/USA, Ernst Caramelle/AT, Patrizia Caire/Günther Schrom/AT, CCMC (Peter Anson, Larry Dubin, Nobuo Kubota, Allan Mattes, Michael Snow, Casey Sokol)/CAN, Colette/Peter Gordon/USA, Francesco Agnetti/Gianni Colombo/IT, Axel Corti/AT , Merce Cunningham/USA , Douglas Davis/USA. Georg Decristel/AT, Peter Downsbrough/USA/BE, Ed Emshwiller/USA, Wolfgang Ernst/AT, VALIE EXPORT/AT, Flatz/AT/GER, Hermine Freed/USA, Terry Fox/USA, Dale Frank/AUS, Bill Furlong/GB, Ladislav Galeta/YU, Wilhelm Gaube/AT, Genera ldea/CAN, Bob George/USA, Jochen Gerz/GER, Tina Girouard/USA, Roland Goeschl /AT, Jack Goldstein/USA, Dan Graha /USA, Peter Grass/USA, Horst Gerhard Haberl/AT, Lotte HendrichHassmann/AT, Hermann Hendrich/AT, Gazi Herzog/AT, Julia Heyward/USA, Klaus Hoffer/AT, Dragan llic /AUS, Sanja lvekovic/Dalibor Martinis/CR, Joan Jonas/USA, Angelika Kaufmann/GER, Allan Kaprow/USA, Milan Knizak/CZ, kollektive Telekommunikationsprojekte, Renate Kowanz-Kocer/AT, Karl Kowanz/AT, Richard Kriesche/AT, Shigeko Kubota/USA, Richard Landry/USA, Charles Loeffler/Bob Gaglioni/USA, Herr Lugus/AT, Tom Marioni/USA, Albert Mayr/IT, Bruce McLean/GB, Robert Morris /USA, Antonio Muntadas/USA, lan Murray/CAN, Maurizio Nanucci/IT, Bruce Nauman/USA, Juan Navarra Baldeweg/ESP, Hermann Nitsch/AT, Muriel Olesen/CH, Yoko Ono/USA, Dennis Oppenheim/USA, Nam June Paik/J/USA, Friederike Pezold/AT, Arnulf Rainer/AT, Patrick Ready/CAN, Ulrike Rosenbach/GER, Dieter Roth/CH, Gerhard Rühm/AT, R. Murray Schafer/CAN, Michael Schuster/AT, Richard Serra/USA, Tom Sherman/USA/CAN, Katharina Sieverding/GER, Hartmut Skerbisch/AT, Michael Snow/USA, Throbbing Gristle/GB, Rasa Todosiewiz/YU, Goran Trbuljak/CR, David Troostwyk/GB, Ferry Unger/AT, Franco Vaccari/IT, Franz Vana/AT, William Wegman/USA, Peter Weibel/AT, Lawrence Weiner/USA , Norman T. White/CAN, Monsti (Ingrid ) Wiener/AT, Oswald Wiener/AT, Hannah Wilke/USA, Jana Wisniewski/AT, Otto M. Zykan/AT.