digital art

A Companion to Digital Art edited by Christiane Paul
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Description

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

  • Table of Contents

    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

    images-1Author Information

    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).