TY  - GEN
AU  - Baumgärtel,Tilman
TI  - Van Gogh TV's »Piazza Virtuale« : The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992
SN  - 9783839460665
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Media studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Electronic, holographic & video art
KW  - Media Art
KW  - Social Media
KW  - Van Gogh TV
KW  - Piazza Virtuale
KW  - Documenta
KW  - Media
KW  - Art
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Media History
KW  - Media Aesthetics
KW  - Media Studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event that took place during the 100 days of documenta IX in 1992 was an early experiment with entirely user-created content. This is the first book-length study of this largely forgotten experiment: It documents the radicality of Piazza virtuale's approach, the novel programme ideas and the technical innovations. It also allows, via QR codes, direct access to videos from the show, which until now have been inaccessible
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52089/1/9783839460665.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52089/1/9783839460665.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/75031
ER  -