Manifestations of Multimedia Music - New Conceptualism - Prof. Johannes Kreidler

Manifestations of Multimedia Music - New Conceptualism - Prof. Johannes Kreidler _MUTOR Online Lecture Series - History and Practice of Multimedia HOOU@HfMT Hamburg Concept-art was established in the 1960s as a practice and label. It is ‘idea art’ - central to it are mental concepts, framings, which can be realised in various ways. (And thus the essence of framing itself always becomes a topic.) Think of the open form of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade, the infinite possibilities of performing John Cage’s silent piece 4:33, etc., all the way to today’s meme culture on the internet. Despite the media-nonspecificity that mental concepts first have, and the multi-mediality in which they are then implemented, conceptual art first became paradigmatic in the visual arts, while in music (as well as in theater and literature) only found its way extensively in the new millennium – the ‘new conceptualism’. The latter is due to the added possibilities of the digital. But if the conceptual now encompasses