Current New Media Art theorypractices have developed from the Media Art Histories of Video Art. The Video Art of the 1970’s anticipated many specific New Media Art theorypractices. I trace these histories through the lens of experimental Media Art projects made in Chicago during the decade of the 1970’s by a group of artists and academics whose deeply collaborative artistic research and development led to the…
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Film, Video, New Media and Animation dept; Art History, Theory and Criticism dept.