WRITING AND UNWRITING (MEDIA) ART HISTORY

Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrida scientist-humanist-arti st. Relatively unknown outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition, In 2048, Kurenniemi may at last be achievi ng international recognition. This book offers an excavation, a critical mapping, and an elaboration of Kurenniemis multiplicities