Retracing political dimensions : strategies in contemporary new media art / edited by Oliver Grau, Inge Hinterwaldner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grau, Oliver, editor.

Hinterwaldner, Inge, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art--Political aspects.

New media art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

At the beginning of the 21st century, new forms and dynamics of interplay are constituted at the interfaces of media, art and politics. Current challenges in society and ecology, like climate, surveillance, virtualization of the global financial markets, are characterized by hybrid and subtle technologies. They are ubiquitous, turn out to be increasingly complex and act invasively. New media art utilizes its broad range of expression in order to tackle the most urgent topics through multi-sensorial, participatory, and activist approaches. This volume shows how media artists address, with a political lens, the core of these developments critically and productively.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Political Dimensions in Digital Imagery

Image-Transaction

Digital Art’s Political Impact

Part II: “Freedom Act” Aestheticization of Surveillance, Counterveillance, and Participatory Agendas

Coping with Uncertainty

Cultural Politics of Games

Artistic Research and Technocratic Consciousness

Part III: Touching Communication Strategies

Social Broadcasting

From Celestial Maneuvers to Atmospheric Turmoil

When Are We?

Part IV: Technopolitics and Artistic Agency Global Ecology in New Media Art

Physical Computing and the Political Economy of Machines

Countering Capitulation

Capitalocene Art

Part V: Machine Learning, Data Visualizations, and Architecture The (In)visible Infrastructures of Information Systems

Double-bind Information Systems in the Work of Teresa Burga

Entangled Realities

Facebook’s MPK 20 Headquarters designed by Frank Gehry

Authors

Illustrations Credits

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Retracing political dimensions : strategies in contemporary new media art

ISBN:

3-11-067098-4

OCLC:

1226679165