Artist as Inventor

This book opens new perspectives on cinema, arts, and the media. It provides a rereading of the past and explains the challenges facing artists today.

Valentino Catricalà (Ph.D) is a scholar and art curator specialised in the analysis of the relationship of artists with new technologies and media. Valentino is currently the artistic director of the Rome Media Art Festival (MAXXI Museum) and Art Project coordinator at Fondazione Mondo Digitale.

1.Towards an Archaeology of Media Art / 2. Avant-Garde and Technology / 3. The Birth of a New Notion: The Sixties and the Seventies / 4. Grown and Institutionalization of Media Art / 5. The current digital contest / 6. Preservation, Conservation, Restoration