New Media Artists  (English, Paperback, Source Wikipedia)

Chapters: Barbara Rosenthal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 294. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Barbara Rosenthal (b. 1948, The Bronx, New York) is an American avant-garde artist and writer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy. Her pseudonyms include "Homo Futurus," taken from the title of one of her books, and "Cassandra-on-the-Hudson", which alludes to her studio and residence since 1998 on the Hudson River in Greenwich Village, NYC. Barbara Rosenthal standing in her top-floor loft at 727 Avenue of the Americas, NYC, in 1990. These framed photo-text artworks show how she incorporates existential philosophy into art, and the avant-garde way she utilizes framing and edges, particularly in "Dead Astronaut/Live Artist" above, and in the diamond-shaped work to her left, "Swimmer in the Universe/Scientists Are The Priests And Prophets". This work is composed of nine 20" x 20" separately framed segments of a swimmer in the distance, repeated exactly in all frames; the view into the water is horizontal, but the frame is tipped, and within each frame white text, printed as photograms, asserts various, non-repeated original ideas such as "God is the Idol of Science."As an artist, Rosenthal works across all media including photography, video, performance, projection, installation, interactive and New Media (digital media), text, collage, prints, artists' books and objects. Almost all are produced in editions. Most combine camera, text and performative aspects. Elements of Rosenthal's body of work, "Surreal Photography" are often present. Rosenthal is known for often revisiting past works, recombining old elements with new, and often appears in her work in some way. These may include x-rays, brain scans and clothing. Sometimes she utilizes physica...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20520083