Buried away in the summer programme of the ICA, the new media show Radical Entertainment represented an ambitious attempt to anthologise recent interdisciplinary work focused on the digital domain. Here, Ian White reviews the exhibition and asks whether our idées fixes about the new media genre – its levels of ludic subversion, its critique of the institution of Art, its interactive nature – aren’t misnomers in the face of the realities of the white cube. Instead, he suggests, we might view these ‘black box’ works as a revitalisation of the legacies of Romanticism

Lev Manovich on Blade Runner and the Graphical User Interface

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