Nawar / Younis Rewiring Narratives

New Media Art from the Arab World
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6391-2
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Rewiring Narratives – New Media Art from the Arab World

Rewiring Narratives is the first comprehensive book on New Media Art from the Arab world, offering a groundbreaking perspective on contemporary art, digital art, media culture, and technological innovation across the Middle East and North Africa.

Bringing together leading artists, curators, and scholars, this richly illustrated volume explores the history and evolution of Arab media art through essays on cinema, video art, gaming, digital archives, code-based art, and emerging media practices. Rather than positioning Arab artists within established Western narratives, the book examines the unique cultural, political, and technological conditions that have shaped artistic production across the region.

By connecting historical developments with contemporary digital practices, Rewiring Narratives highlights Arab New Media Art as an influential field of artistic experimentation, innovation, and global dialogue.

Key Features

- First comprehensive publication on New Media Art from the Arab world.

- Essays on digital art, cinema, gaming, video art, archives, and media culture.

- A fresh perspective on contemporary Arab art within global art history.

Ideal for: art historians, curators, artists, students, researchers, and readers interested in contemporary art, digital culture, media studies, Middle Eastern art, visual culture, and the history of New Media Art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nawar, Haytham

Younis, Ala

Weitere Mitwirkende

Basar, Shumon

Desouki, Yasmin

El Baroni, Bassem

El Shaer, Ahmed

Gronlund, Melissa

Halaby, Samia

Marks, Laura

Mater, Ahmed

Mongy, Yasser

Nawar, Haytham

Sakr, Laila Shereen

Taleb, Abdel Aziz

Younis, Ala

Zaatari, Akram

Khazindar, Mona

Fuchs, Rutger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover
Halftitle
Titlepage
Preface - Mona Khazindar
Contents
New Media Art from the Arab World - HAYTHAM NAWAR & ALA YOUNIS
Notes Toward an Arab Media Art History - HAYTHAM NAWAR & ALA YOUNIS
The Historical Roots and Transformations of Arab Media: From the Printing Press to Digitization. A Lecture in Two Parts - YASSER MONGY
The Dark Side of the Moon: Amal Abdenour’s Photocopy Artworks, 1970–1979 - MELISSA GRONLUND
A Conversation on Painting with Code with Samia Halaby
Refreshing Electronic Flows in Arab Artists’ Videos - LAURA U. MARKS
When New Turns Old: A Conversation on Media Beginnings, Tools, and Influences with Akram Zaatari
Prognosis: A Life in Media, Medicine, and the Making of an Image, 1979–2020 - AHMED MATER
Stumbling Around Normality: Experimental Tendencies in Egyptian Cinema, 1980s–1990s - YASMIN DESOUKI
A Conversation on the Emergence of Contemporary Art Practices in Egypt with Bassam El Baroni
Glitching Tradition in Arab Digital Art - LAILA SHEREEN SAKR
Nomadic Visions and Digital Frontiers: The Evolution of Media Arts in Morocco and the Maghreb - ABDELAZIZ TALEB
Video Games as an Art Form: History and Contemporary Practice in the Arab World - AHMED EL SHAER
The Axis of Posting - SHUMON BASAR
Author Biographies
Index
Credits
Colophon