In this detailed book, media art experts discuss the challenges and issues installation art presents to curators and restorers. It provides a practical and theoretical introduction to the preservation of media art installations as well as four case studies from artists at the Inter Media Art Institute Foundation.

Media Art Installations: Preservation and Presentation: Materializing the Ephemeral

Buschmann, Renate

Caianiello, Tiziana

Arts & Photography

Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH

In 1968, artist Daniel Spoerri founded Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf; two years later he opened the Eat Art Gallery, where artists such as Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein and Dieter Roth exhibited objects made of foodstuffs. Taking the activities of Eat Art as its starting point, Eating the Universe gathers together artworks that have been made using edible materials, starting in the 1970s and continuing through to the present day. Over the past decade in particular, artists have evinced a growing interest in food and eating, concomitant with an increasing overall consciousness about the political, ecological, cultural and economic dimensions of what we put in our mouths. With 170 color images, Eating the Universe presents a range of contemporary artwork that explores linkages between food and the formation of identity, societal affluence, globalization and awareness of one's own body.

Eating the Universe

Holzhey, Magdalena

Groos, Ulrike

Ermacora, Beate

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Dumont Buchverlag

<p>* Overview of the work of the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz* A comprehensive two-volume publicationThe work of the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz (*1934) has been shaking up the art and film community for more than 50 years. Ever since he embarked on his career as an artist in the 1960s, Mommartz has been thinking out of the box. Rejecting the clichés of the movie industry, he aimed to bring about a radical new beginning of film - with a focus on aesthetic and social goals. In 1967, he soared to the top of the German avantgarde as a self-taught filmmaker after his surprising success at the renowned experimental film festival in Knokke, Belgium. Not only was he one of the founding members of the legendary Creamcheese bar populated by artists, but he also participated in influential festivals and exhibitions such as the documenta 4 (1968). From this time onward, he belonged to the circle of filmmakers who pressed ahead with "the other cinema" against the mainstream film industry and promoted alternative distribution systems. In 1975, Mommartz became the first professor of film at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and headed the film class until 1999. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Mommartz produced an impressive body of short and experimental films, feature films, and documentary recordings of Düsseldorf's art scene. The two-volume publication provides an introduction into his diverse oeuvre and highlights thematic and associative connections between his films. Text in English and German. Published to accompany an exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, between 21 November 2020 and 7 February 2021.</p>

mommartzfilm 1964-2020: Premiere und Werkschau

Jansen, Gregor

Photography & Video

Verlag Kettler

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