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"... has moved art forward?
or can it all be related to duchamp, beuys, etc? "It's a big subject....
Yeah, I think it has moved art forward in the sense that it's a new tool, a new medium.I don't think there is anything *inherent* about new media art that relates to Duchamp or Beuys. I can't claim to really understand what those fools were up to... but I know their work favored a 'conceptual' aesthetic rather than a visual one. There's that kind of thing going on in new media I guess, but there's plenty of stuff that's primarily visual too.
Is it post-modern? My understanding is that it has to be "conscious" of it's historical-social-political context to be post-modern. Again, there's a whole range. Alot of visual experiments are not post-modern in that sense. They are "modern" probably, but so was picasso.
I actually don't see motion and interactivity as a huge leap in terms of the state of art.
I don't know manovich's "new modernism."