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differentiation of the mounts, will remain unaltered. With the advent of until 1990 continues to perfect himself in Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and
photography, the fate of modern image changes, as it nears the global flow Milan in the following fields: architecture and urban design, audiovisual
of communication and hauls art with it. The evolution towards a cultural communication, theatre, cinema, video and computer graphics, multimedia
alliance between art and information is accentuated by the invention of and virtual reality. Simultaneously, Pla undertakes a career that enables
the image in motion, soon to be followed by films possessing sound, and him to organize cultural manifestations in various sectors, and produces
the creation of television and video as a result of cinema . The presence an abundant number of films, videos and computer graphics. Between
of the media is thus rendered all-powerful as it is created to the rhythm 1970 and 1978 he achieves numerous shorts, medium and full-lengths
of the electronic information technology. Laser provides the new image that are either documentaries ( Up Art, Pop Art, Images of Buenos Aires)
with a third dimension as well as with a virtual reality, and the computer or fiction ( Alice in Wonderland). “ Mid-summer Night´s Dream”, is his first
intelligently substitutes the pencil or the paintbrush, while Internet 60 minute colour video, and at the beginning of the 80s, he presents a
becomes our planetary memory.In this multimedia and cosmopolitan series of videos in Italy and especially at the Museum of Ferrara, which at
climate that today’s art distils, the versatile personality of the Italian- the time was the summit of electronic art in Italy.
Argentine artist Eduardo Pla stands out. In an exemplary manner, we could Eduardo Pla, a versatile creator of the electronic image, who fully
say that he perfectly represents the model of the present-day artist in the experiences the numerous requests of the art of his time and who helps
realm of audiovisual communication. Born in Buenos Aires in 1952, he is us to better perceive the permanence of the human dimension in the
twenty years younger than Nam June Paix, the creator of video art in 1965. global flow of communication. A perfect visual operator of the immediate
He graduates in 1970 with a degree in Electronic Communication, and future.
Pierre Restany