The Art of a Networked World at the Beginning of the 21st Century – Maja Stanković, Networked Image, Beograd, FMK, 2022

Abstract

The scholarly monograph Networked Image by Maja Stanković, published by the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, Serbia is based on the author’s earlier research on the changing character of artistic work and the unsteady process of constituting its meaning and functioning. Overall, the author turns her attention to two aspects of contemporary art. The first is the “disappearance of clear differences between the artistic and non-artistic” as a continuation of radical ideas and challenging traditional views of art initiated in the context of avant-garde art movements in the early 20 th century and new ways of technological reproduction. Stanković interpreted this in her previous book Liquid Contexts (FMK 2015) as the result of a shift in understanding and functioning of context, no longer seen as a set of circumstances and conditions under which an artwork originates but as an element integrated within the artwork that constitutes that difference. The second aspect is the process of “the moving and circulation of images in different registers” in which art also participates, which, according to Stanković