The twentieth century was marked by the fall of all specific artistic disciplines.Painting and sculpture began to intertwine with other artistic languages-architecture and photography，cinema and de-sign-through the unbridled use of all techniques and all media.aims to document multimedia overlays created through the use of new technologies-radio and television，the telephone and gramophone，film and the computer-that have marked the artistic practices of the historic and contemporary avant-gardes，from futurism to constmctivism，dada to surrealism，pop art to conceptual art.It features a long line-up of images and thoughts，books and manifestos，films and photographs，discs and videos produced by the maior protagonists of art-both.yesterday and today，from Balla to Marinetti，Schwitters to Duchamp，Warhol to Bews，Nauman to Kiefer and Paik to Anderson-for an aesthetic view completely free of all spatial，temporal and media-based confines.

The Reasons for Vertigo

Germano Celant

The Subject of the Media

Gianfranco Maraniello

Vertigo

Germano Celant

Nineteen Eleven Nineteen Sixty-two

 There Will Come A Time When Paintings Are No Longer Enough

 Ester Coen

 The Media Heat Up: Cinema and Photography in Futurism

 Giovanni Lista

 Artists and Books in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

 Elio Grazioli

 Image and Concept

 Carlo Montanaro

 The Irresistible Rise of the Photographic

 Claudio Marra

From Film Projector To MP3 Player

Nineteen Sixty-three Two Thousand Five

 Making Good Use of the Banal

 Alberto Boatto

 The Screen 'General Equivalent' of Contemporary Art

 Ugo Volli

 Connecting Pages

 Giovanni Maria Accame

 Tele-aesthetics: Between Television and Art

 Marco Senaldi

 Les cousins: Film and Artistic Avant-gardes

 Peppino Ortoleva

 The City Is a Computer Every Twenty Square Metres:

 Toward a Non-figurative Architecture

 Andrea Branzi

 From Film to Video Art

 Francesco Bernardelli

 The Sonic Youth of the Last Century

 Carlo Antonelli

 Surveillance，Identity and Archive in the Digital Age:

 An Interview with Stefano Rodota

 Antonio Somaini

Two Thousand Seven

 Vanessa Beecroft，Gregory Crewdson，Yang Fudong，

 Andreas Gursky，Thomas Hirschhorn，Pierre Huyghe，

 Steve McQueen，Matt Mullican，Vik Muniz，Paul Pfeiffer，

 Thomas Ruff，Lucas Samaras，Thomas Struth，Grazia Toderi，

 Francesco Vezzoli，Krzysztof Wodiczko

Appendix

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