Digital baroque: new media art and cinematic folds
Digital baroque: new media art and cinematic folds
In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpec…
"At a Distance traces the history and theory of experimental art projects as Mall Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus."--Jacket.
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media funda…
Fetish : biological art and the death of God -- Prosthesis : database art and the death of the subject -- Fragment : Internet art and the crisis of transcendence -- Bricolage : intermedia art and the integrity of fallibility.
From the publisher. From the internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels -- it is a fundamental condition of living. The digitization of modern life constitutes…
"Database Aesthetics" examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information…
Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art.
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement i…
