ABSTRACT
Media art is conspicuously missing from the “art genres” place-holders in the Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus, though the sample includes apocalyptic art, children’s art, community art, court art, and dissident art. In the Ars Electronica 2015 online catalog, which should be one of its top exhibition venues, one needs to dig deeper to find that media art has not only been subsumed under the label of hybrid art but also that it exists in relation to other “transdisciplinary projects.” There are new genres and forms that use information communication technologies such as locative media art that employs mobile platforms to instantiate experiences situated in particular locations. From an art historical perspective, there is the precedent of the birth of the Art Object as a separate category with Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades” at the beginning of the twentieth century.
