1. Frank Popper was a Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.
12 Facts About Frank Popper
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Frank Popper was decorated with the medal of the Legion d'honneur by the French Government.
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Frank Popper is author of the books Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Art, Action, and Participation, Art of the Electronic Age and From Technological to Virtual Art.
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Frank Popper was a champion of the humanizing effects of such an interdisciplinary synthesis.
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Frank Popper subsequently encountered the artists Nicolas Schoffer and Frank Malina, whose works were based on first or second-hand scientific knowledge.
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Frank Popper had many personal encounters in Paris with Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visual, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Yaacov Agam, Jesus-Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely, which proved to have had a substantial impact on his view of art and art history.
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Frank Popper began to investigate a range of works emerging in this era, including those of Shawn Brixey, Ebon Fisher, and Joseph Nechvatal.
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Frank Popper used the term, virtual art, in reference to all the art made with the technical media developed at the end of the 1980s.
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Frank Popper showed that contemporary virtual art is a further refinement of the technological art of the late twentieth century - and a departure from it.
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Frank Popper argued further that what distinguishes the artists who practice virtual art from traditional artists is their combined commitment to aesthetics and technology.
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Frank Popper surveyed works that are digital based but materialized, multimedia offline works, interactive digital installations, and multimedia online works by many artists.
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Virtual art, as Frank Popper saw it, is more than just an injection of the usual aesthetic material into a new medium, but a deep investigation into the ontological, psychological and ecological significance of such technologies.