Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for me…
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the grou…
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain …
Arguing that the virtual body is something new -- namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world -- the author considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by…
Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption,…
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Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art.
Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums.
In 1965, the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) unveiled his Movie-Drome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. VanDerBeek envisioned Movie-Drome as the prototype for a communications system--a global network of Movie-Dromes linked to orbiting satellites …
When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors and human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and cultur…
An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, anecdotes, and interviews; more than 150 color images. This book is an essential resource for art educators and artists who want to explore code as a creative medium, and a guide f…
