[ISEA2004] Paper: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski – New Media Art as Transcultural Interface

Abstract

In the area of new media communication art we have to do with the process of cultural hybridisation. Net art may assume all discussed forms: expression of local culture, an agent of modernization, or a personal fantasy, being however in each case a merger of different and unpredictable cultural systems. Problem of identity belongs to the most discussed questions in the field of cultural studies nowadays. In most of the cases it is closely related to the issue of cyberculture and its characteristic instruments of expression: new digital communication media. Debates on identity in the context of new media aim to develop critical discourses concerning the position and features of the individual in the age of the global transcultural communication. Discussions, which locate such problems in the framework of art, extend sometimes the psychological concept of identity understood as an approach to specify a set of qualities defining the individual in order to ask about the identity of the work of art.

  • Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, PhD. (PL) is a professor at Lodz University, where he has a  position of the Head of Electronic Media Department. He is also professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (theory and history of art) and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (media art). He writes about the problems of information/network society, theory of media and communication, cyberculture and (multi)media arts. He also critically investigates the issues of contemporary art theory and alternative art (avant-garde). In the years 1990-2001 Kluszczynski was a chief curator of film, video and multimedia arts at the Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

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