The digital interface and new media art installations / Phaedra Shanbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanbaum, Phaedra, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies.

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Installations (Art).

Interactive art.

New media art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding our relationship with technology.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Art at the Interface

What Is a Digital Interface?

A Brief History of Digital Art

Chapter Summaries

1 The Aesthetic Interface

Toward a Digital Aesthetic of the Interface

The Aesthetic Interface and the Mediated Experience of Time

Aesthetic Distance, Representationalism, and Cartesian Habits of the Mind

The Difficulty with Interactivity

The Digital Interface Is Obsolete

Place and the Aesthetic Interface

2 The Embodied Interface

The Viewer/Participant or the Interface?

The Human "Me" and the Technologized "You"

The "Real" and the Representational

The Re-use of Cultural Forms: Practice, Potentiality, and Instructional Processes

3 The Agential Interface

The Agency of Human and Non-human Entities, or Why the Relationship between the Body and Technology Matters

The Agential Interface in 768 Pieces

Enacting the Agential Cut

Collective Spaces of Questioning, Reflection, and Reconsideration

4 Instruction and the Interface

The Ideological Effects of Instruction

Instruction, Learning Processes, and the Cybernetic Feedback Loop of Interaction

Pre-programmed Actions and Unexpected Experiences: Instruction as a Rhetorical Device

Peripheral Actions and Unintended Consequences: Instruction and the Filtering Process

Shared Ontological Systems and the Emergence of Different Dialogues

5 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part I

What is Ubiquitous Computing?

A "Shift" in Computing

A Restructuring of Interfaces

Re-opening the Question of the Interface: Linear Timelines and Finality

In Conclusion

6 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part II

The Instrumentalization and Commodification of the Ubiquitous Interface

"You Are the Controller".

The Alternative Ubiquitous Interface

"A Radically New Tool"

7 The Implanted Interface

Implanting the Interface

The Limited and Limitless Possibilities of the Implant

Support: Agency, Identity, and the Implant

Mediate: The Social "Time Capsule"

Enhance: Performing the Visible Invisible

Remediate: Disembodiment, Transcendence, and the Implant

Conclusion/Postscript

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Goldsmiths' College, 2017) under the title: The interface is obsolete.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780429885990

0429885997

9780429886003

0429886004

9780429467899

0429467893

OCLC:

1114319681