# Art Studies [Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_history) ( 20th century – present ) ## Description Broad field of art historical and critical writing on contemporary practice; the material gathered here concentrates on art-science interaction, cybernetic and behaviourist art, and participatory/relational aesthetics. ## Key Tags #art-theory #art-science #cybernetics #participatory-art #new-media-art ## Essential Works - [[Participation]] - Claire Bishop's edited Documents of Contemporary Art anthology on participatory and relational art - [[The Practice of Art and Science]] - Ars Electronica-affiliated volume on art-science collaboration ## Details The bibliography here overlaps with [[Animation Studies]] (the Reiniger/Ruttmann animation-historiography citations appear to have been gathered alongside these), but the thread distinct to this page is art-science interaction and cybernetic/participatory art theory: Ascott's behaviourist cybernetic art, Bishop's critique of participation, and Malina/Stocker's advocacy for art-science practice. ### Key Theorists - [[Roy Ascott]] - foundational theorist and artist of cybernetic and behaviourist art - [[Claire Bishop]] - art historian who theorized and critiqued participatory/relational art practice - [[Roger Malina]] - astronomer and long-time editor of *Leonardo*, advocate for art-science interaction - [[Gerfried Stocker]] - Ars Electronica artistic director, curator of art-science practice ### Exemplary Practitioners - [[Eduardo Kac]] - telepresence, robotic, and bio art practice exemplifying art-science and cybernetic concerns ### Related Concepts - [[Computer Art]] - closely related field of technologically mediated art practice - [[Performance Art]] - overlaps with participatory and relational art practice ### Creative and Technical Practices - [[Participatory Practices]] - practice-based counterpart to Bishop's theorization of participation ### Associated Movements or Institutions - [[Ars Electronica]] - festival and center for art, technology, and society; publisher of *The Practice of Art and Science* - annual festival, Prix Ars Electronica - [[Leonardo]] - MIT Press journal on art, science, and technology, long edited by Roger Malina - journal, affiliated Leonardo book series ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography MLA Annotated Bib of Important or relevant Primary texts ### Secondary Sources Bibliography *"Resistance and Subversion in Animated Films of the Nazi Era: The Case of Hans Fischerkoesen."* n.d. Acadia, Lilith. "'Lover of Shadows': Lotte Reiniger's Innovation, Orientalism, and Progressivism." *Oxford German Studies* 50, no. 2 (2021): 150–68. [https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1927377](https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1927377). Ascott, Roy. "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision." In *Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality*, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan, 2002. Bieberstein, Rada, and Erwin Feyersinger. "The Ever-Expanding Scope of Animation Historiography: A Discussion of Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods." *Animation* 17, no. 1 (2022): 10–25. [https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221080108](https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221080108). Bishop, Claire, ed. *Participation*. 3rd printing. Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel, 2010. Goergen, Jeanpaul. *Walter Ruttmann: Eine Dokumentation*. 1989. Malina, Roger. *The Strong Case for Art-Science Interaction*. n.d. Petter, Tashi. "'One Out of Harmony with Her Own Time': Lotte Reiniger, Anachronism and Doing Animation History through Film Society Reconstruction." *Animation* 17, no. 1 (2022): 70–87. [https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221087164](https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221087164). Pilling, Jayne. *A Reader In Animation Studies*. Indiana University Press, 1998. [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/edited_volume/book/40033](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/edited_volume/book/40033). Rochester, Katherine. "Visual Music and Kinetic Ornaments." *Feminist Media Histories* 7, no. 1 (2021): 115–46. [https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.115](https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.115). Stocker, Gerfried, Andreas J. Hirsch, and Ars Electronica Center, eds. *The Practice of Art and Science*. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2017. Wizansky, Noga Gahl. *Crosscut: Handicraft and Abstraction in Weimar Germany*. PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2004. [ProQuest](https://search.proquest.com/openview/be429ee450415a0dd8cb914ec83061b0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y).