Synthetic Times: Media Art China, edited by Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga

The synthetic power of new media art—integrative, interdisciplinary, interactive—expresses the blurred boundary between the physical and the digital. Synthetic Times (which accompanied a milestone 2008 Olympics Cultural Project exhibition at the National Art Museum in China) collects new media art created since 2001 by artists and art collectives from nearly thirty countries. These innovative and groundbreaking works reveal the tension between man and machine, between the animated and the inert, rekindling a discourse about relationships between nature and culture, the perceived and the imagined. Essays by leading new media theorists accompany the artworks, and an appendix documents additional programs held in conjunction with the exhibition.


$44.95, hardcover
358 pages, 200 color images
The MIT Press and the National Art Museum of China, 2009

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