A Companion to Digital Art

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 artReflecting 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 art Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction: From Digital to Post-Digital--Evolutions of an Art Form 1Christiane PaulPart I Histories of Digital Art 211 The Complex and Multifarious Expressions of Digital Art and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 23Oliver Grau2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts 46Darko Fritz3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art 69Erkki Huhtamo4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art 111Machiko Kusahara5 Generative Art Theory 146Philip Galanter6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism 18Jennifer Way7 The Hauntology of the Digital Image 203Charlie Gere8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display 226Rudolf FrielingPart II Aesthetics of Digital Art 2479 Small Abstract Aesthetics 249Max Bense10 Aesthetics of the Digital 265Sean Cubitt11 Computational Aesthe...

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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).

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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 art

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List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: From Digital to Post-Digital--Evolutions of an Art Form 1 Christiane Paul Part I Histories of Digital Art 21 1 The Complex and Multifarious Expressions of Digital Art and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 23 Oliver Grau 2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts 46 Darko Fritz 3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art 69 Erkki Huhtamo 4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art 111 Machiko Kusahara 5 Generative Art Theory 146 Philip Galanter 6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism 18 Jennifer Way 7 The Hauntology of the Digital Image 203 Charlie Gere 8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display 226 Rudolf Frieling Part II Aesthetics of Digital Art 247 9 Small Abstract Aesthetics 249 Max Bense 10 Aesthetics of the Digital 265 Sean Cubitt 11 Computational Aesthetics 281 M. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller 12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art 297 Olga Goriunova 13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process 310 Nathaniel Stern 14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives 330 Anne Balsamo Part III Network Cultures: The Politics of Digital Art 353 15 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication 355 Armin Medosch 16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media 384 Konrad Becker 17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the '90s 400 McKenzie Wark 18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice 413 Kyle Chayka 19 Artistic Visualization 426 Lev Manovich 20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox 445 Mary Flanagan Part IV Digital Art and the Institution 461 21 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? 463 Edward A. Shanken 22 One of Us!: On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions 482 Richard Rinehart 23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution--Where to Now? 494 Sarah Cook with Aneta Krzemien Barkley 24 The Nuts and B…