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Conceptual Art: Artists focus on the idea, the process and language more than on the aesthetics and materials of the art object;
Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. ... When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. -
Museums, galleries and other art institutions begin to collect and exhibit media art
What is the difference between a museum and a gallery? Art museums and art galleries are two different types of entities. The primary difference is that while one goes to an art museum to view art, one goes to an art gallery to view art, from the perspective of purchasing the art -
German engineer Konrad Zuse (1910 – 1995) builds a computer using 35mm film tape to control programming.
Konrad Zuse (German: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941 -
Film and radio became increasingly popular
During the 1920's movies had been established as a big business, with Hollywood being the center for most of the activity. Movies changed the way that Americans used their free time, millions of people began going to movie theaters throughout the country -
black and white television first
The earliest television broadcasts were transmitted in black-and-white, and received and displayed by black-and-white only television sets. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color television transmission on July 3, 1928 using a mechanical process 1928 and cost about $2500 -
Television become widespread in households
After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion -
Pop Art: Artists become interested in commercial culture and mass production;
How did pop art changed the art world?
By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art -
Fluxus: Artists, composers and designers work together to combine artistic media and disciplines;
Geoffrey Hendricks is an American artist and educator commonly associated with the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, and for which he remains active today, staging Happenings and exhibiting his painting and installation work. -
Performance Art: An individual or group performs this ephemeral art form;
There are many forms of ephemeral art, from sculpture to performance, but the term is usually used to describe a work of art that only occurs once, like a happening, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object to be shown in a museum or gallery. -
Personal computers (PCs) become more accessible and affordable. Video games are popularized
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user. -
Video Art: Inexpensive portable video cameras become available to the general public and are integrated into artistic practices.
noun. the manner and ability with which an artist, writer, dancer, athlete, or the like employs the technical skills of a particular art or field of endeavor. the body of specialized procedures and methods used in any specific field, especially in an area of applied science.
