{"title":"New Media Art and a Contemporary Revision of the Term 'Cultural Industry' of Theodor Adorno","authors":"C. Romero","doi":"10.4018/IJACDT.2011070101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines some of the ideas that Theodor Adorno elucidated around the term “cultural industry†, compiling mainly the ideas published in the text “Aesthetic Theory†of 1970. The term “cultural industry†is also contextualized in the article with the reflections that Adorno previously exposed since 1947. Concerning the relation between art and autonomy the ideas of Adorno offer elements to understand contemporary art production. A dialog is created with the proposal of the North American theoretician and artist Martha Rosler to understand the chronological development of art before, during, and after Adorno. To conclude, the author also discusses contemporary new media art manifestations, which are analyzed through autonomy/cultural industry in relation to the proposals of the Brazilian theoretician Arlindo Machado.","PeriodicalId":181387,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Art Cult. Des. Technol.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Art Cult. Des. Technol.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2011070101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
New Media Art and a Contemporary Revision of the Term 'Cultural Industry' of Theodor Adorno
This article examines some of the ideas that Theodor Adorno elucidated around the term “cultural industry†, compiling mainly the ideas published in the text “Aesthetic Theory†of 1970. The term “cultural industry†is also contextualized in the article with the reflections that Adorno previously exposed since 1947. Concerning the relation between art and autonomy the ideas of Adorno offer elements to understand contemporary art production. A dialog is created with the proposal of the North American theoretician and artist Martha Rosler to understand the chronological development of art before, during, and after Adorno. To conclude, the author also discusses contemporary new media art manifestations, which are analyzed through autonomy/cultural industry in relation to the proposals of the Brazilian theoretician Arlindo Machado.