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Art, Philosophy & New Media · 1760–2015

Interactive timeline of art movements, philosophers, media theorists, and cultural events. Hover any bar or name for a full tooltip. Scroll horizontally to navigate 255 years. Informed by Brad Troemel’s critical analysis of Post-Internet, contemporary, and digital art.

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Interactive Timeline of Art, Philosophy and New Media 1760–2015

Philosophy / Theory
Philosophers
Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Nietzsche Freud Saussure Jung Heidegger Roland Barthes Lacan Baudrillard
Lévi-Strauss Chomsky Foucault Badiou Nick Land
Bataille Bourdieu
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Phenom. of Spirit (1807) Birth of Tragedy (1872) Interp. of Dreams (1900) Being & Time (1927) Écrits (1966) Simulacra (1981)
World as Will (1818) Course in Linguistics (1915) Elem. Structures (1949) Order of Things (1966) Fanged Noumena (1994)
Psychological Types (1921) Writing Degree Zero (1953) Syntactic Structures (1957) Being & Event (1988)
Documents / Base Materialism (1929) Distinction (1979)
Media Theory
Media Theory
Benjamin — Mech. Repr. (1936) Greenberg (1961) Virilio (1994)
McLuhan — Understanding Media (1964) Levy — Hackers (1984) Manovich — New Media (2001)
Art
NEOCLASSICISM / ENLIGHTENMENT HISTORY PAINTING (1760–1850)
J-L. David Canova Ingres Flaxman
ROMANTICISM (1780–1850)
Goya Blake C.D. Friedrich Turner Delacroix
REALISM (1840–1890)
Courbet Daumier Manet Millet
IMPRESSIONISM (1860–1900)
Monet Renoir Degas Cézanne Van Gogh
POST-IMPRESSIONISM (1886–1910)
Gauguin Seurat Toulouse-Lautrec
SYMBOLISM (1886–1910)
Klimt Munch Redon
NAÏVE ART (1886‑)
Henri Rousseau Grandma Moses
EXPRESSIONISM (1905–1933)
Matisse Kirchner Kandinsky Nolde
CUBISM (1907–1930)
Picasso Braque Juan Gris
FUTURISM (1909–1944)
Boccioni Balla
DADA
Duchamp Hannah Höch
RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM (1915–34)
Rodchenko El Lissitzky
NEUE SACHLICHKEIT (1918‑33)
Otto Dix Grosz Schad
SURREALISM / PSYCHOANALYTIC MODERNISM (1924–50s)
Breton Dalí M. Ernst Magritte Kahlo
OUTSIDER ART / ART BRUT (1945‑)
Dubuffet Wölfli Darger
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (1943–65)
Pollock de Kooning Rothko Kline
POP ART (1954–1975)
Jasper Johns Warhol Oldenburg
MINIMALISM (1960–75)
F. Stella Sol LeWitt R. Serra
CONCEPTUAL ART / INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE (1960s–)
Beuys Kosuth Haacke Broodthaers
PERFORMANCE ART (1960s–)
Fluxus / Happenings Stelarc Abramović, Acconci
ARTE POVERA (1967–77)
Pistoletto Kounellis M. Merz Anselmo
MONO-HA (1968–75)
Lee Ufan Sekine
EARTH ART
Robert Smithson — Spiral Jetty (1970)
POSTMODERNISM / SIMULATION / APPROPRIATION ART (1970s–)
Sherrie Levine Cindy Sherman Barbara Kruger Richard Prince
NEO-EXPRESSIONISM (1978‑90)
Baselitz Kiefer Schnabel Clemente
POST-MODERN SCULPTURE (1970s–)
Jeff Koons Damien Hirst
GRAFFITI (1970s–)
TAKI 183 Basquiat Keith Haring
LOWBROW / UNDERGROUND (1970s–)
R. Williams Juxtapoz 1994
CYBERNETIC ART (1960s–)
Nam June Paik new media →
VIDEO ART (1965–)
Paik Viola Nauman
ALGORITHMIC ART (1965–)
Nees, Nake, Molnar H. Cohen (AARON)
GENERATIVE ART (1985–)
Karl Sims
ORGANIC ART / ARTIFICIAL LIFE (1986–)
Eduardo Kac
HACKING (EXPLORATORY) (1983–)
phreakers / BBS / demo scene Levy ‘Hackers’ (1984)
HACKTIVIST ART (1994–)
Electronic Disturbance Theater, Critical Art Ensemble
TACTICAL MEDIA (1996–)
Next 5 Minutes, RTMark, Yes Men
INTERNET ART / CYBERCULTURE ART (1990s–)
jodi.org Olia Lialina Josh On
POP SURREALISM (1990s–)
Mark Ryden R. Williams
CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTUAL / POST-CONCEPTUAL (1990s–)
Ai Weiwei Kara Walker Olafur Eliasson
POST-INTERNET ART (2006–15)
Arcangel Trecartin Steyerl
ZF
Zombie Formalism (2011–15)
AÚT
Arte Útil (2011‑)
Consumer Art
Animation
ANIMATION — Golden Age (1928–1960)
Pixar / Dreamworks (1995–)
Mickey (1928) Snow White (1937) Toy Story (1995)
Comics
COMICS — Platinum Age (1897–1937)
Golden Age (1938–56)
Silver, Bronze & Modern Age (1956–)
Yellow Kid (1897) Superman (1938) Marvel (1939–) Dark Knight (1986)
Video Games
VIDEO GAMES (1972–)
Pong Super Mario Doom Quake Warcraft
Politics
French Rev.
Napoleonic Era
WWI
WWII
Cold War (1947–1991)
Vietnam War
Soviet–Afg.
Rwa
9/11
Iraq War
WWI 1914–18 Great Leap Forward Berlin Wall Falls (1989) 9/11
1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015
Science
Quantum Theory (Planck 1900) Relativity (Einstein 1905/1916) Nuclear Fission 1938
ENIAC (1945) DNA double helix (1953)
Gagarin (1961) Moon Landing (1969)
Chaos Theory (1963) → rise of popular science
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