Database aesthetics : art in the age of information overflow / Victoria Vesna, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vesna, Victoria, 1959-

Series:

Electronic mediations.

Electronic mediations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Data processing.

Arts.

Database design.

Information behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 305 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

8th ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art.

Contents:

Seeing the world in a grain of sand : the database aesthetics of everything / Victoria Vesna

Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich

Ocean, database, recut / Grahame Weinbren

Waiting for the world to explode : how data converts into a novel / Norman M. Klein

The database as system and cultural form : anatomies of cultural narratives / Christiane Paul

The database imaginary : Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 / Steve Dietz

Recombinant poetics and related database aesthetics / Bill Seaman

The database : an aesthetics of dignity / Sharon Daniel

Network aesthetics / Warren Sack

Game engines as embedded systems / Robert F. Nideffer

Stock market skirt : the evolution of the Internet, the interface, and an idea / Nancy Paterson

Pockets full of memories / George Legrady

The raw data diet, all-consuming bodies, and the shape of things to come / Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Time capsule : networking the biological [biotech and trauma] / Eduardo Kac

Aesthetics of ecosystm / John Klima

Polar / Marko Peljhan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5409-3

OCLC:

476124021