Network art : practices and positions / edited by Tom Corby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corby, Tom, 1966-

Series:

Innovations in art and design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer art.

Art and the Internet.

Physical Description:

xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Network Art: Practices and Positions explores emerging artistic responses to a world enveloped by information networks. In its pages an international group of leading theorists and artists describe how artists have used the Internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, to develop artworks that reflect upon the pervasive effects of a technology that has profoundly reordered our social, economic and cultural institutions. This book covers a period from the mid-1990s to the present day and includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere, Josephine Bosma, Tilman Baumgartel and Sarah Cook, side by side with descriptions of important projects by The Yes Men, Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 0100101110101101.ORG amongst many others. Fully illustrated throughout, Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artists' writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians. In doing so it develops a unique approach as it offers the first comprehensive attempt at understanding network art practice rooted in concrete descriptions of the systems and process of making it.

Contents:

The history of network art

Art as experience : meet the active audience

Context-specific curating on the web (CSCW?)

The ludic hack : artistic explorations of computer games

Grave digging and net art : a proposal for the future

Inquiries in infomics

Softer side of art

System poetics and software refuseniks

Digital bop poetics

The wrong categories

If networked is the answer what is the question?

Dow Chemical just says "yes" to Bhopal

Life sharing : a real-time digital self-portrait.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415364795

OCLC:

60971972

Publisher Number:

9780415364799 (hardback : alk. paper)