Old Contexts for New: Media Cultures (in Russia)

摘要

This article offers an analysis of the cultural history of thinking and practising technology in Russia and in the Soviet Union throughout the twentieth century, locating artistic practices and theory in relation to education, the market, art systems, the state, politics and culture. It presents a lively account of dynamics shaping strands of thinking in media and new media and affecting personal lives. Saturated with insights and frustrations arising from the personal experience of an author and an organiser, the text moves from the twenty-first century back to the Revolution to account for factors still currently at play.