Net works : case studies in Web art and design / edited by Xtine Burrough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

burrough, xtine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and the Internet.

Web sites--Case studies.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Case studies in Web art and design

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap.Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalis

Contents:

Front Cover; Net Works; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction to Net Works: Xtine Burrough; Part I: Formalism and Conceptual Art; Formalism and Conceptual Art, introduction: Edward A. Shanken; 1. Color Field Paintings (Browser): Michael Demers; 2. YouTube as a Subject: Constant Dullaart; Part II: Collections and Communities; Virtual Communities: An Interview with Howard Rheingold: Xtine Burrough and Howard Rheingold; 3. WTF?!: Robert Nideffer; 4. SF Garden Registry: Amy Franceschini, David Lu, and Myriel Milicevic

Part III: Crowdsourcing and ParticipationCheaper by the Dozen: An Introduction to "Crowdsourcing": Trebor Scholz; 5. Mechanical Olympics: Xtine burrough; 6. Google Maps Road Trip: Peter Baldes and Marc Horowitz; Part IV:Data Visualization; On Data Visualization; 7. Superfund365: Brooke Singer; 8. Pastiche: Christian Marc Schmidt; Part V: Error and Noise; Seductive Errors: A Poetics of Noise, introduction: Mark Nunes; 9. Luscious: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg; 10. Tumbarumba: Ethan Ham; Part VI: Surveillance; Web 2.0 Surveillance and Art, introduction: Christian Fuchs

11. F 'Book: What My Friends Are Doing in Facebook: Lee Walton12. Traceblog: Eduardo Navas; Part VII: Tactical Media and Democracy; Tactical Media, introduction: Critical Art Ensemble; 13. The Good Life/La Buena Vida: Carlos Motta with Eva Díaz, Freckles Studio,and Stamatina Gregory; 14. Oiligarchy: Molleindustria/Paolo Pedercini; Part VIII: Open Source; Open Source Creativity, introduction: David M. Berry; 15. The Real Costs: Michael Mandiberg; 16. Add-Art: Sharing, Freedom, and Beer: Steve Lambert; Part IX: Hacking and Remixing; Hacking and Remixing, introduction: Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss

17. Pigeonblog: Beatriz Da Costa18. JoyceWalks: Conor McGarrigle; Part X: Performance and Analog Counterparts; Performance and Analog Counterparts, introduction: Ken Goldberg; 19. The Gandhi Complex: The Mahatma in Second Life: Joseph Delappe; 20. Alerting Infrastructure!: Challenging the Temporality of Physical versus Virtual Environments: Jonah Brucker-Cohen; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-94482-6

1-280-68391-0

9786613660855

1-136-94483-4

0-203-84794-6

9780203847947

OCLC:

804664051