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Maria Fernandez history of digital art collection

 Collection — Box: ? (unprocessed)
Identifier: 8243

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This collection was assembled by Fernandez over the course of her teaching career and provides an informed snapshot of the history of digital art, from robotics and installation to video art and interactive screen arts. Students, researchers, and artists will have access to primary tapes and documentary videos (some of which have already been digitized) that will provide them with an overview of the history of digital art. Documentaries provide a snapshot of the history of digital art since the mid-1960s. Materials also provide access to the artists' creative and thought processes as well as to their finished products. The items in this collection are intended for use in the research and teaching of Digital Media Art at Cornell University. Selected titles are available for viewing online by the Cornell community.

Dates

  • 1967-1999.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

María Fernández's research and teaching concern three areas and their intersections: the history and theory of digital and new media art, postcolonial and gender studies and Latin American art and architecture. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press 2014), for which she won the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. With Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright she edited Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices (Autonomedia, 2002). Recently she completed an edited volume titled, "Latin American Modernisms and Technology" which explores diverse engagements of Latin American intellectuals and artists with modern technologies, mechanical, electronic, digital and imaginary (forthcoming, Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities and Africa World Press). Her essays have appeared in multiple journals including Leonardo, Art Journal and Third Text as well as in edited collections.

Extent

1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)

Abstract

This collection was assembled by Fernandez over the course of her teaching career and provides an informed snapshot of the history of digital art, from robotics and installation to video art and interactive screen arts. Students, researchers, and artists will have access to primary tapes and documentary videos (some of which have already been digitized) that will provide them with an overview of the history of digital art. Documentaries provide a snapshot of the history of digital art since the mid-1960s. Materials also provide access to the artists' creative and thought processes as well as to their finished products. The items in this collection are intended for use in the research and teaching of Digital Media Art at Cornell University. Selected titles are available for viewing online by the Cornell community.

Physical Description

Audio/visual material.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
April 2018
EAD encoding:
Jude Corina, April 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
April 2018
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)