@book{Reck2007, author = {Hans Ulrich Reck}, title = {The Myth of Media Art}, publisher = {VDG Weimar}, address = {Kromsdorf}, isbn = {978-3-89739-531-2}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:kn185-opus4-1534}, pages = {213}, year = {2007}, abstract = {The Myth of Media Art: the aesthetics of the techno/imaginary and an art theory of virtual realities. \"The Myth of Media Art\" deals with key issues of contemporary media art. In the second part of the book, \"Media Contexts: Key Topics, Arguments, Examples\", art-related fields and significant media issues illustrate the inter-relationship between poetic creation and labor, and artistic practice and economy. Furthermore, the book provides an analysis of fragmentation and totality as diametric poles of a utopian renewal of art, as well as prospects of a media Mannerism, i.e., a renewal of art developed to a meta-level awareness of form in the era of advanced media machines. The book concludes with a careful examination of several works by important artists.}, language = {en} }