2024/02/20

Regina Harsanyi Pushes Back Against Media Arts Amnesia

● 20/02/2024
“If you’re confident in a contemporaneous movement or your own work, you don’t have to pretend it’s novel. Without acknowledging over half a century of media arts, you are asking to be forgotten.”
– Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) associate curator Regina Harsanyi, on inflationary claims of artistic innovation. “If we acknowledge history, we can be transparent about the failures of the past,” she writes on X. “I can’t trust someone selling me an idea if they’re not familiar with past failings forward of the same concept.”
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