Practice in the Media Age: Avant-Garde Art and Media Activism

This book delves into the currents of avant-garde activism in the cyber age, focusing on diverse works of artistic and media resistance and practice. It explores how these movements reflect the concerns of our time, their varied approaches to resistance, and the issues and interests they seek to address today. Through the social engagement methods of avant-garde artists featured in the book, readers can learn strategies to confront the brutality of reality in their own ways.

The term Cy-vangarde combines “cyber” and “avant-garde,” referring to avant-garde art and media activism that emphasize the political and aesthetic functionality of new media. It represents the avant-garde of the digital age. Through cyber-garde, the book revisits the motivations for social engagement and the history and traditions of intervention that avant-garde art collectives pursued with innovative forms of expression since the early 20th century, connecting them to contemporary experiences and practices.