Artforum has turned fifty: To mark the occasion, we devote our special anniversary issue, titled "Art's New Media," to an examination of the past five decades in media, technology, and art
50TH
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE: ART'S NEW MEDIA
Artforum has turned fifty: To mark the occasion,
we devote our special anniversary issue, titled "Art's New Media," to an
examination of the past five decades in media, technology, and
art—from the Plexiglas and Porta-Paks of the 1960s to the networked
production of the present. For the story of media is in many ways the story
of contemporary art, both its history and its future. If, in 1962, when the
magazine was founded, artists were beginning to question traditional
categories of painting and sculpture, now the language of new media and
social media abounds in galleries, exhibition titles, and press releases.
How can we rethink the art medium in terms of new media,
while reckoning with the fact that new media is always becoming old? How
can we understand Artforum itself as a medium for criticism and for
art, while looking at the ways in which it registered sea changes in how
information is transmitted and indeed defined? These questions open onto a
vast and ever-shifting terrain, explored in this landmark issue—the
magazine's thickest to date—by ninety distinguished critics, artists,
curators, and historians:
Ai Weiwei · Stephen
Antonakos · Cory Arcangel · Alex
Bag · Jack
Bankowsky · Eric Banks · Lynda Benglis
· Daniel Birnbaum · Claire
Bishop · Mel Bochner · David Bordwell
· Hans Breder · Merlin Carpenter ·
Paul Chan · Jake Chapman · Tony Conrad
· Lynne Cooke · Douglas Crimp ·
Thomas Crow · Tacita
Dean · Liz Deschenes · Eric C. H. de
Bruyn · Thomas Demand · Diedrich Diederichsen
· Mark Dion · Stan
Douglas · Harun
Farocki · Lara Favaretto · Peter Fend
· Hal Foster · David Frankel ·
Michael Fried · Isa Genzken · Dan
Graham · Tim Griffin · Wade
Guyton · Ed Halter · Thomas
Hirschhorn · J. Hoberman · Eva
Horn · David Horvitz · Robert
Irwin · Joan Jonas · Caroline
A. Jones · David Joselit · Branden W.
Joseph · John
Kelsey · Alison Knowles · Max
Kozloff · Rosalind E. Krauss ·
Barbara Kruger · Oliver Laric · Pamela M.
Lee · Rhonda
Lieberman · Glenn Ligon · Greil Marcus
· Dave McKenzie · Shana Moulton ·
Takashi Murakami · Molly Nesbit · Hitoshi
Nomura · Albert Oehlen · Ahmet Ögüt
· Ida Panicelli · Robert Pincus-Witten
· John Rajchman · David Rimanelli ·
Scott Rothkopf · Ed Ruscha · Cindy Sherman
· Richard Serra · Dayanita Singh
· Ingrid Sischy · Michael Snow ·
Keith Sonnier · Morton Subotnick · Bruce
Sterling · Amy
Taubin · Wolfgang Tillmans · Ryan
Trecartin · Bernard Tschumi · David Velasco
· Anthony Vidler · Anne M. Wagner ·
Kara
Walker · Jeffrey Weiss · Robert Whitman
· Stephen Willats · Geoffrey
Winthrop-Young · Yang Fudong
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