An informative inspiring richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book
sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit the universally understandable
language of the mass media and to make art once again a critical mirror of its time. Around
sixty artists from more than twenty countries are presented in eight chapters that address
social political and scientific themes (racism climate change capitalism eccentricity sex
zeitgeist and fashionable and frightening technologies) in a way that is playful and
innovative. HEINZ PETER SCHWERFEL (*1954) lives in Paris. He works as a journalist
filmmaker and curator and is the author of books on artists (Georg Baselitz Jannis Kounellis)
and non-fiction books such as Kunst-Skandale and Kino und Kunst . As a filmmaker he
produced films about Christian Boltanski Rebecca Horn Anish Kapoor Christoph Marthaler
Annette Messager Bruce Nauman Cees Nooteboom and many others as well as TV series for the
art channel ARTE ( Design Live Art ). In addition he curated exhibitions of work by Shirin
Neshat Julian Rosefeldt and Loukia Alavanou (Greek pavilion 2022 Venice Biennale).
