[ecrea] new book: Art and Photography in Media Environments

Art and Photography in Media Environments is the new book edit by José 
Gomes Pinto and Rui Matoso (Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon), in wich are 
colected the papers presented at the ECREA — Preconference: Art & 
Photography in Media Environments — November 11, 2014, hosted by 
Lusófona University.

The main goal of this Pre-conference was to think about new relations 
between art — in a wider sense — and mass communication technologies, 
approaching these intersections as a base that produces a broader 
thinking on the results of these encounters- if it is aesthetic, 
political, social, cultural, etc. Immanuel Kant formulates in his 
Critique of Judgment what he considers to be the vivid principle of the 
soul. This principle was tightly connected to art and for him art was a 
matter of representation, which incites to a deep thinking. Natural 
standards of art were conceived by him as being genius art. The 
connection to nature, natural process of art making were at stake in 
Kant’s point of view and marked the way art was thought throughout the 
last centuries. With the emergence of avant-garde artistic movements, 
Kant’s conception started to be criticized, and a hiatus between art and 
aesthetics opened since.


With the advent of new technologies, art started to be deeply connected 
with new media, which became the raw material for art practices. This 
media turn, now widely accepted is being currently enlarged with 
critical approaches.
Photography is a paradigmatic example of this new materiality. It has 
been regarded as the inscription of an image obtained not by human hand, 
but by the agency of light per se. Today with the apparition of coded 
digital images, photography, such as flm, expands. Analog photography is 
replaced by a virtual picture. Its perception has changed and the 
theoretical approach to it is also transforming.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: An introduction to Art and Photography in Media Environments (7)

Jule Schaffer | Photographic Images, the Holy, and the Sacred: Analyzing 
Realidades by the Photographer Pierre Gonnord (17)

Vendela Grundell | Friction as Tactical Experience — Interfacing 
Photographic Instances through Rosa Menkman’s Sunshine in My Throat (39)

Rui Matoso | Operative-Images and Phantom-Images — The Synthetic 
Perception Media in late Harun Farocki (67)

Patricia Prieto-Blanco | Understanding the performative power of family 
photographs through the work of John Clang, Liz Steketee and Trish 
Morrissey (93)

Maria da Luz Correia | The recreational image: from photographic 
amusements to video games (107)

Vinicius Souza | From Streets to Nets — The Trajectory of a Journalistic 
Photo (121)

Filip Láb and Sandra Štefaniková | “Just Click, Click and Click!”. 
Photojournalism in Print and Online Czech News Media (131)

José Gomes Pinto | Art and Primitivism. An approach to Carl Einstein 
Negerplastik (159)

Carlos Pimenta | Jorge Molder. The photographer and his double (173)



More info and Foreword: An introduction to Art and Photography in Media 
Environments:

https://medium.com/@ruimatoso/art-and-photography-in-media-environments-book-f1359e2ed296#.1eza1iwyu 


https://apme-ecrea.blogspot.pt/





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