The PowerPoint slideshow for my presentation to the 5th ICIL conference that took place on June 30th 2012 at the Ionian Academy on the island of Corfu, Greece.

1. The impact of Media
on artistic practice & its reception
on artistic practice & its reception

2. A Work of Art
is
a vessel of information

3. Greek sculpture

4. Statue of a
Kouros
c. 530 BC.
Marble

5. The gods concocted by the
Greeks--

6. Antikythira
Ephebe
c. 340 - 330 BC.
Bronze

7. --are
mediotechnologically
inferior.

8. Statue of
Dionysus
c. 520 - 510 BC.
Marble

9. The collapse of Greek culture:
a matter
of media efficiency

10. Statue of a
Ulysses
c. 1st century BC.
Marble

11. Painting in the East

12. Religion:
extreme
restrictions on the
human body.

13. Unknown
The Triumph of
Orthodoxy
c.1400
37,8 x 31 cm.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on
panel
Constantinopole

14. The concept of secular art
ceased
to exist.

15. Unknown
Martyr
c. 14th century AD
Tempera and gold leaf on
paper

16. The oppressed need for
eroticism
led
to
sadomasochism.

17. Gianlorenzo
Bernini
Ecstasy of St.
Theresa
1647 - 1652
Marble

18. Michelangelo
Merisi Da
Caravaggio
St. John the Baptist
1602
Oil on canvas

19. Andrea Mantegna
St. Sebastian
Oil on canvas
c. 1455

20. Yiannis Tsarouchis
St. Sebastian
Oil on canvas
c. 1970

21. Pierre & Gilles
St. Sébastien
Painted photograph
1987

22. Japanese prints

23. Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Itami Rice-Wine,
Settsu Province
1852

24. Hokusai

25. Katsushika
Hokusai
Ocean waves
ca. 1830

26. Katsushika
Hokusai
From "A 100 views
of Fuji"
19th century AD

27. Katsushika
Hokusai
Hibiscus & Sparrow
ca. 1830

28. Katsushika
Hokusai
From Hokusai Manga
19th century AD

29. 21st Century

30. Comicbooks

31. Working in Marvel DC
&
comics:
Medieval
Galleys

32. Jack Kirby
The Avengers
Cover illustration,
March 1964

33. Situation in European
comics though was
Quite
Different

34. Moebius
Angel Claw
1993

35. Predicament in US comics:
Reversed
In late '80s & early '90s

36. Frank Miller
Batman
The Dark Knight
Cover illustration

37. Manga

38. Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira
1982

39. Situation in Japanese
manga industry:
Vastly
different.

40. Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira
1982

41. Tsutomu Nihei
Blame (Artbook)
1998

42. Videogames

43. Final Fantasy
XIII
Square Enix
2010

44. Videogames are the most
Pervasive
artform

45. ICO
Team ICO
2001

46. Shadow of the
Colossus
Team ICO
2006

47. Grand Theft Auto
IV
Rockstar Games
2008

48. Grand Theft Auto
IV
Rockstar Games
2008

49. Sadly the current-gen norm is
a
Bruneleschian
FPS world.

50. Call of Duty -
MW2
Activision
2010

51. Indie, mobile &
some mainstream
superstars
offset this
trend

52. FEZ
Polytronic
2012

53. Bioshock
Irrational Games
2007

54. The predominant
disruptive
technology NOW
is

55. Social

57. See all
as
media
perfect
the
opportunities
that they are.

59. ABOUT.ME/PAPAMICHALOPOULOS
AMILITARYRAIDEN P EE T T
R SN A I
ON
June 2012