Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists. _ Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline _ Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions _ Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh,…mehr
Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.
_ Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline _ Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions _ Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists _ Tackles digital art's primary practical challenges - how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence _ Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital artHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christiane Paul is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School, New York, USA, and also Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prof. Paul is a noted curator who oversees the Whitney's artport website and has for more than a decade conceived and administered the museum's new media exhibitions, including Data Dynamics (2001), Profiling (2007), and Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011). Other curatorial work includes The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, 2013); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); Feedforward - The Angel of History (LABoral, Spain, 2009); and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, 2009). She is the author of Digital Art (2003), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008), and co-editor with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna of Context Providers - Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures ii
Notes on Contributors iii
Acknowledgements iv
INTRODUCTION ov
From Digital to Post-Digital -- Evolutions of an Art Form v Christiane Paul
PART I: HISTORIES OF DIGITAL ART
1 The Complex and Multifarious Expression of Digital Art and its Impact on Archives and Humanities Oliver Grau
2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts Darko Fritz
3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art Erkki Huhtamo
4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art Machiko Kusahara
5 Generative Art Theory Philip Galanter
6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism Jennifer Way
07 The Hauntology of the Digital Image Charlie Gere
8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display Rudolf Frieling
PART II: AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL ART
9 Small Abstract Aesthetics Max Bense
10 Aesthetics of the Digital Sean Cubitt
11 Computational Aesthetics M. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller
12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art Olga Goriunova
13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process Nathaniel Stern
14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives Anne Balsamo
PART III: NETWORK CULTURES: THE POLITICS OF DIGITAL ART
15 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication Armin Medosch
16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media Konrad Becker
17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the 90s McKenzie Wark
18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice Kyle Chayka
19 Big Data and Artistic Visualization Lev Manovich
20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox Mary Flanagan
PART IV: DIGITAL ART AND THE INSTITUTION
21 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? Edward A. Shanken
22 One of Us! On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions Richard Rinehart
23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution -- Where to Now? Sarah Cook
24 Digital Conservation - Tools, Methods, Strategies Ben Fino-Radin
25 Trusting Amateurs with Our Future Jon Ippolito
26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER Annet Dekker
27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and Audiences Beryl Graham
