Changing Channels Art and Television
1963-1987
Changing Channels is dedicated to the history of artists examinations of the mass medium of television.
Beginning with early television works from the 1960s, the exhibition is concerned with tracing the course of artistic reflection and use of this instrument of communication in the museum and public media spaces in more detail. Works will be shown that are paradigmatic in the way they put up for discussion the connection between the conceptual way artists work, new technological developments and the increasing influence of television.
Changing Channels makes it clear that the newly awakened interest in information and communication technology in the art of the 1960s and 1970s continues in the 1980s under different conditions and that this led to a clear expansion of artistic areas of responsibility including a questioning of established art institutions as well as clear references to the socio-political function of the mass media.
At MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig.
4 March 6 June 2010, 10:00- 16:00 (Thurs -21:00)