Nomadic images. Transmediality and hybridity in contemporary media art
Nomadic images. Transmediality and hybridity in contemporary media art

Summary/Abstract: Modern world has a complex and multidimensional character. This is largely due to such factors as globalization processes that lead to cultural hybridization. The artists who work in this context, in response to its challenges, provide their audience with equally hybrid transmedia forms. They cross the borders of art disciplines as well as the borders between art and existence. Taking the art of Douglas Davis, Sanja Iveković, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Józef Robakowski, Zygmunt Rytka, Anna Konik, and Yumi Machiguchi as examples, the paper presents the artistic tendencies which develop in between various environments, the tendencies within which art takes on nomadic character, resigning from permanent location so as to seemingly become aesthetically homeless. It is in this that art finds its power of character, its clarity of artistic gesture, its energy, values and sense, and – paradoxically – its own place: always in between.

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