Name: (Re-)Imagining New Media
ISBN: 978-3-658-32899-3

Editors:

Christoph Ernst⁰,
Jens Schröter¹

Christoph Ernst
1. Rheinische Friedrich-Wihelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany
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Important contribution to the history and theory of media art and of the prehistory of digital culture
Addresses the topic of imagination and sociotechnical imaginaries in relation on ‘New Media’
First anthology on the Piazza virtuale-project by Van Gogh TV (1992)

Part of the book series: Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik (NPM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-vii

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Introduction
- Christoph Ernst, Jens Schröter
Pages 1-5
Past and Present Metaphors of Interaction and Virtuality
- Sally Wyatt
Pages 7-14
The Promise of the Promise—The Dynamic Medium Group in Oakland, California
- Götz Bachmann
Pages 15-30
Imagination via Demonstration—Performing Interactive Television and the Case of Piazza virtuale (1992)
- Christoph Ernst, Jens Schröter
Pages 31-45
Televisionen/Television/Televisuality/Televirtuality. Imaginary of TV in the 1980s and 1990s
- Oliver Fahle
Pages 47-61
Deconstructing Cyberpunk Worlds—Technodystopian Imaginaries in the Storyworld of Gibson’s Neuromancer
- Wenzel Mehnert
Pages 63-87
Piazza Virtuale—The Public Sphere and Its Expansion Beyond the Physical
- Hannah Glauner
Pages 89-109
Reimagining Piazza virtuale—A Conversation with Van Gogh-TV
- Christoph Ernst, Jens Schröter, Karel Dudesek, Benjamin Heidersberger, Salvatore Vanasco, Mike Hentz
Pages 111-170

About this book

The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the historically very important interactive television project "Piazza virtuale" (1992).

Keywords

Imagination of New Media
Media Change
TV History
Van-Gogh-TV
Interactive Televison
Digtialisation
Media aesthetics

Editors and Affiliations

Rheinische Friedrich-Wihelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany

Christoph Ernst, Jens Schröter

About the editors

PD Dr. Christoph Ernst is Research Assistant at the University of Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bonn.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: (Re-)Imagining New Media
Book Subtitle: Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992)
Editors: Christoph Ernst, Jens Schröter
Series Title: Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32899-3
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-32898-6Published: 01 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-32899-3Published: 31 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-3209
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3217
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 170
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Digital and New Media, Media and Communication Theory, Media Sociology, Popular Culture, Kulturphilosophie