At a distance : precursors to art and activism on the Internet / edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandler, Annmarie.

Neumark, Norie.

Series:

Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Art and telecommunication.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work -- including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.

Contents:

Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Relays, Delays, and Distance Art/Activism; Part I Critical Perspectives on Distance Art/Activist Practices; 1 Interactive, Algorithmic, Networked: Aesthetics of New Media Art; 2 Immaterial Material: Physicality, Corporality, and Dematerialization in Telecommunication Artworks; 3 From Representation to Networks: Interplays of Visualities, Apparatuses, Discourses, Territories, and Bodies; 4 The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies; 5 Fluxus Praxis: An Exploration of Connections, Creativity, and Community

Part II Artists/Activists Re-view Their Projects 6 Animating the Social: Mobile Image/Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz; 7 An Unsuspected Future in Broadcasting: Negativland; 8 Mini-FM: Performing Microscopic Distance (An E-Mail Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa); 9 From the Gulf War to the Battle of Seattle: Building an International Alternative Media Network; 10 The Form: 1970-1979 and Other Extemporaneous Anomalous Assemblings; 11 Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana

12 From Mail Art to Telepresence: Communication at a Distance in the Works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac13 Distance Makes the Art Grow Further: Distributed Authorship and Telematic Textuality in La Plissure du Texte; 14 From BBS to Wireless: A Story of Art in Chips; 15 REALTIME- Radio Art, Telematic Art, and Telerobotics: Two Examples; Part III Networking Art/Activist Practices; 16 Estri-dentistas: Taking the Teeth out of Futurism; 17 Computer Network Music Bands: A History of The League of Automatic Music Composers and The Hub; 18 Assembling Magazines and Alternative Artists' Networks

19 The Wealth and Poverty of Networks 20 From Internationalism to Transnations: Networked Art and Activism; Conclusion; Timeline; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-31136-4

1-282-09810-1

9786612098109

0-262-27014-5

1-4237-9654-3

OCLC:

71000565

Publisher Number:

9780262033282