Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32JK1
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- ISBN
- 9780262029582
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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17
- Research group(s)
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2 - Exhibition Research Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The research is the first interdisciplinary study and a long-overdue critical evaluation of the work of Finnish artist, visionary thinker, self-archivist, media and technology pioneer of the 1960s, Erkki Kurenniemi. It was initiated by Prof Krysa as co-curator of Documenta 13 and Kurenniemi’s first international retrospective exhibition as part of it. Previously largely unexplored, the range of Kurenniemi ‘s interdisciplinary practice across the arts and science defied traditional classifications and called for Krysa to develop new historical narratives of media art.
Prof Krysa conceptualised the project as a curated publication and worked with Kurenniemi to define the scope of the publication, including Kurenniemi’s own original writings (translated for the first time into English) and rare archival visual material selected by Krysa from his archive at The National Finnish Gallery and University of Helsinki Music Department. Prof Krysa invited 19 world-leading multidisciplinary scholars and worked with them to define the scope and structure of their contributions, and also edited author contributions to bring in insights from her own research. She has co-authored a positioning essay and contributed an original writing to posit Kurenniemi’s self-archival practice from the curatorial standpoint.
Book peer-reviewed, published by MIT Press (Leonardo series). Krysa’s longstanding research in the field of art-technology and her curatorial work undertaken on the first international retrospective exhibition of Kurenniemi’s work at Documenta 13, has been instrumental in bringing this work to international scholarly attention. The book is the consolidation of various other outputs curated by Krysa. The significance of the research lies beyond Kurenniemi’s individual contribution, offering new historical narratives to global media art history. Extensively reviewed and cited internationally (e.g. Leonardo, Mousse), it has led to further scholarly work, publications, new artistic practices and international exhibitions (i.e.Tarek Atoui, Constant, Florian Hecker, Mika Taanila; Kunshal Aarhus, Denmark; KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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