Advances on Digital and Interactive Arts

摘要

It started with Seurat, the most scientific of the impressionists. He said: I want to give a picture of my time with the means of my time. When our world is created by electronic media, artists are best suited and adapted to give a picture of the contemporary world using the means by which the contemporary world is constructed. So, in 100 years, when people want to know how it was in the 20th century or the 21st century, the best testimonials will be media art - be it video installations, be it computer installations, whatever. -Peter Weibel, "Entretien ", 2012, in Dominique MOULON (ed.), Art et Numerique en Risonance, Nouvelles editions Scala, Paris, 2015, p. 55.