(week 10)what kind of history? 1

1.4.1 teleological accounts of new media


From cave paintings to mobile phones:
In Rheingold historical scheme

From photography to telematics:
extracting some sense from teleologies:
an eight-stage historical model of the progressive development of technologies of image production and transmission

Seeing the limitis of new media teleologies:
from an abstract system of logic, through the development of calculating machines, to the computer as a 'medium'

Foucault and genealogies of new media:
Foucauldian perspective


1.4.2 new media and the modernist concept of progress

- Computer artists come to the instrument from art rather than computer science.(Youngblood 1999:48)
- In the name of 'progress' our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the eork of the old.(McLuhan and Fiore 1967a : 81)
- Deferred future of new media :
because of technological underdevelopment.
:be used and understanding according to older, existing practices and ideas.
-The view of modernist aesthetic
:medium has to be genuinely new from the past and old media


The artists use anything that will help them express their message.
the artist used various media from time to time.
Modern art includes creations that can never be collected, owned, or exhibited in the traditional sense.