2021/06/09

W. Patrick McCray on How Postwar Experiments in Art and Technology Defined Contemporary Aesthetics

“These categories of art and technology and artists and engineers are dynamic, they are historically contingent and change over time. So, sure, you can go into MoMA and see video or a light and sound piece—but in 1965 the context was entirely different, the art world struggled to accept this work.”
Making Art Work (2020) author W. Patrick McCray, on not taking 1960s experimentation for granted [quote edited]
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