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is pleased to announce the publication of <i>Barbarian
Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts</i>, edited
by Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez<span></span></span></p>
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available open access (= it can be downloaded for free): <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Contemporary art and
media art do not exist in separate worlds. In 20th century
Brazil, technology was a key element of artistic imagination.
Oswald de Andrade, the father of Brazilian ‘cannibal’
modernism, envisioned the Americas as a cradle of a new
society populated by <i>technicised barbarians</i>. The
country’s post-war avant-gardes embraced computers and
electronic media as transformative forces, capable of
realising the promise of a nation in search of its modern
identity. <i>Barbarian Currents</i> explores this history
through a sociological lens, examining the many intriguing
circumstances that have shaped the new forms of cultural and
artistic expression. <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">This pioneering
anthology brings together the voices of artists, critics and
curators who played a pivotal role in the emergence of
technological arts in post-war Brazil. The documents, most of
which have been translated into English for the first time,
remind us that ‘alternative’ art histories are simply the
flipside of dominant narratives. They encourage us to look
beyond the lens of Western exceptionalism and reframe our
understanding of cultural histories worldwide.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext"> rigorously
illuminates the way in which Brazil’s relationship with
technological progress, modernism and utopia shaped a
distinctive trajectory for its media arts. The book offers
readers unprecedented insight into how Brazil’s media art
scene evolved both within and against the global art world.
This is an essential resource for understanding the special
character of technological art in the Global South.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">José-Carlos
Mariátegui</span></i><span
style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">, Founder – Director
of Alta Tecnología Andina, Lima<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">This unique book fills
an essential gap in media art studies. Compiling an extensive
directory of Brazilian artistic production, it reconstructs,
through the perspectives of its leading actors, an important
history marked by creative experiments between art and
industry post-World War II.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Professor Giselle
Beiguelman</span></i><span
style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">, University of São
Paulo FAU-USP<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Gabriel Menotti is
Associate Professor and chair of the Screen Cultures and
Curatorial Studies graduate program at Queen’s University,
Ontario. He also works as an independent curator in the field
of media practices. His most recent books are <i>Practices of
Projection: Histories and Technologies</i> (2020, co-edited
with Virginia Crisp) and <i>Movie Circuits: Curatorial
Approaches to Cinema Technology</i> (2019). <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">German Alfonso Nunez
is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of
Multimedia, Media and Communication at the State University of
Campinas (Unicamp). His work focuses on the Brazilian artistic
field of the post-World War II era. Recently, he worked as a
researcher at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, where he
organised and edited the commemorative book for the Museum’s
75th anniversary.<span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">The book is
published as part of the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series edited
by Joanna Zylinska: </span><span style="font-size:11pt"><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/"
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