Electra Myths: Video, Modernism, Postmodernism
Art Journal, Fall 1985, v. 45, no. 3, pp. 195-203
This journal discusses about the relation between Machianation and Modernism, introuduces the massive exhibition Electra: Electricity and Electronics in 20th-Century Art which is cruicial to interrogation of technology, and explains how Electra, video and the postmodernism joint together. As Electra is the first recent large exhibition organized in the spirit of the multimedia shows of fifteen years ago, the history of electrical inventions in art can be found through video works exhibited in Electra. Its artworks are exempted from investigation into the nature of their mediums by the protective cloak of a scientific perspective; with this isolation, Electra propagates a modernist progress without consequence.
ITEM 1985.116 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
States of Mind – Umberto Boccioni
Montana – Jane Veeder
Warhead – Nancy Burson