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Van Gogh TV's »Piazza Virtuale« The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992 Tilman Baumgärtel, Julian Weinert
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baumgärtel, Tilman <p>Tilman Baumgärtel, Hochschule Mainz, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Edition Medienwissenschaft ; Volume 96.
- Edition Medienwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Media Art.
- Social Media.
- Van Gogh TV.
- Piazza Virtuale.
- Documenta.
- Media.
- Art.
- Cultural History.
- Media History.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Media Art.
- Social Media.
- Van Gogh TV.
- Piazza Virtuale.
- Documenta.
- Media.
- Art.
- Cultural History.
- Media History.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.) 1368 MB 30 SW-Abbildungen, 20 Farbabbildungen
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Baumgärtel, Van Gogh TV's »Piazza Virtuale« The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Tilman Baumgärtel (Dr.) is a writer and teaches media studies at Hochschule Mainz. Previously he was a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila (2005-2009) and at the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2009-2012). He has published on media culture, including internet art, computer games, the aesthetics of loops, GIF animation and the director Harun Farocki.
- Summary:
- Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event that took place during the 100 days of documenta IX in 1992 was an early experiment with entirely user-created content. This is the first book-length study of this largely forgotten experiment: It documents the radicality of Piazza virtuale's approach, the novel programme ideas and the technical innovations. It also allows, via QR codes, direct access to videos from the show, which until now have been inaccessible.
- »Eine spannende Quelle, ein Ansatzpunkt, um weiteren Spuren ins Silicon Valley zu folgen, Austauschbeziehungen mit Europa herauszuarbeiten oder den Interdependenzen von Internet- und Fernsehgeschichten im deutschsprachigen Raum weiter nachzugehen.«
- Besprochen in:Technology & Culture, 65 (2024), Katie Mackinnon
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: "Hallo TV"
- 1 From subject to project: The intellectual and cultural environment of Piazza virtuale
- 2 Before and after Piazza virtuale
- 3 The making of Piazza virtuale
- 4 Piazza virtuale on air: 100 days, 600 hours of programming
- 5 "The show is as intelligent as its audience": The reception of Piazza virtuale
- 6 Conclusion: "Through the telephone lines a desire, formless and unaware of itself"
- Appendix 1 The segments of Piazza virtuale
- Appendix 2 The Piazzettas
- Appendix 3 Technology
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231).
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783839460665
- 3839460662
- Publisher Number:
- 9783839460665
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