The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalisation / by Melissa Langdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langdon, Melissa, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software.

Multimedia systems.

Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.

Media Design.

Local Subjects:

Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.

Media Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 167 pages) : 44 illustrations, 38 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2014.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book explores digital artists' articulations of globalization. Digital artworks from around the world are examined in terms of how they both express and simulate globalization's impacts through immersive, participatory and interactive technologies. The author highlights some of the problems with macro and categorical approaches to the study of globalization and presents new ways of seeing the phenomenon as a series of processes and flows that are individually experienced and expressed. Instead of providing a macro analysis of large-scale political and economic processes, the book offers imaginative new ways of knowing and understanding globalization as a series of micro affects. Digital art is explored in terms of how it re-centers articulations of globalization around individual experiences and offers new ways of accessing a complex topic often expressed in general and intangible terms. The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalization is analytic and accessible, with material that is of interest to a range of researchers from different disciplines. Students studying digital art, film, globalization, cultural studies or digital media trends will also find the content fascinating.

Contents:

Introduction: Towards New Understandings

Chapter 1: Digital Art and Cultural Commentary

Chapter 2: Globalization and Digital Art

Chapter 3: Digital Art and Political Revolt

Chapter 4: Global Space, Time and Speed: T Visionarium II and Beijing Accelerator

Chapter 5: Metropolis: Imagining the Global City

Chapter 6: In the Line of Flight: Changing Practices in Digital Art

Chapter 7: Digital Art and Social Engagement

Conclusion: Digital Art as a Platform of Articulation.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-1-4939-1270-4

9781493912704

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.