Context providers : conditions of meaning in media arts /
Context providers : conditions of meaning in media arts /
edited by Margot Lovejoy, Chrsitiane Paul, and Victoria Vesna.
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
- 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining conditions for digital arts : social function, authorship, and audience / Missing in action : agency and meaning in interactive art / Collaborative systems : redefining public art / Play, participation, and art : blurring the edges / Contextual networks : data, identity, and collective production / Aesthetics of information visualization / Identity operated in new mode : context and body/space/time / Game engines as creative frameworks / Mapping the collective / Shifting media contexts : when scientific labs become art studios / Biotechnical art and the ethico-aesthetic paradigm / Working with wetware / Defining life : artists challenge conventional classifications / Art and science research : active contexts and discourses / Margot Lovejoy -- Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken -- Sharon Daniel -- Mary Flanagan -- Christiane Paul -- Warren Sack -- Marina Gržinić -- Robert F. Nideffer -- Sara Diamond -- Victoria Vesna -- Anna Munster -- Ruth G. West -- Ellen K. Levy -- Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig. Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Preliminary Pages -- Introduction -- Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience -- Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art -- Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art -- Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges -- Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production -- Aesthetics of Information Visualization -- Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time -- Game Engines As Creative Frameworks -- Mapping the Collective. Part Three. -- Part One. -- Part Two. -- Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art StudiosBiotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm -- Working With Wetware -- Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications -- Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses -- Biographies -- Back Cover.
Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers - people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and challenging creative work. "For decades, it seems, there has been debate about the technological basis of so-called new media art. In this enlightening volume, the editors have enlisted a comprehensive body of opinion by theorists and practitioners to present one complex answer - it's the context, stupid."--Steve Dietz, founding artistic director, Northern Lights.mn and the OISJ Biennial. "Media art is not just an art form that utilizes media technology, as people tend to think. This excellent volume, written by pioneers in the field, explores its real meanings to us and our society with ample examples and theoretical insight. Such a book has been long needed."--Machiko Kusahara, media art curator, author, Professor, Waseda University, Japan. "With major essays written by a range of experts in this emerging field, Context Providers articulates a seminal language to previously unexplored territories. It explores ethics in the conditions of meaning in ways that are both accessible and provocative."--Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, filmmaker, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis. --Book Jacket.
9781841505398 (electronic bk.) 1841505390 (electronic bk.) 1841503088 9781841503080
9786613162892 9781841503080
316289 MIL
GBB6F5521 bnb
017813699 Uk
Mass media and the arts.
Art and technology.
New media art.
Computer art.
Video art.
Médias et arts.
Art et technologie.
Arts médiatiques.
Art vidéo.
video art.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Art and technology.
Computer art.
Mass media and the arts.
New media art.
Video art.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
NX180.M3 / C68 2011eb
700/.1/05
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining conditions for digital arts : social function, authorship, and audience / Missing in action : agency and meaning in interactive art / Collaborative systems : redefining public art / Play, participation, and art : blurring the edges / Contextual networks : data, identity, and collective production / Aesthetics of information visualization / Identity operated in new mode : context and body/space/time / Game engines as creative frameworks / Mapping the collective / Shifting media contexts : when scientific labs become art studios / Biotechnical art and the ethico-aesthetic paradigm / Working with wetware / Defining life : artists challenge conventional classifications / Art and science research : active contexts and discourses / Margot Lovejoy -- Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken -- Sharon Daniel -- Mary Flanagan -- Christiane Paul -- Warren Sack -- Marina Gržinić -- Robert F. Nideffer -- Sara Diamond -- Victoria Vesna -- Anna Munster -- Ruth G. West -- Ellen K. Levy -- Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig. Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Preliminary Pages -- Introduction -- Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience -- Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art -- Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art -- Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges -- Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production -- Aesthetics of Information Visualization -- Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time -- Game Engines As Creative Frameworks -- Mapping the Collective. Part Three. -- Part One. -- Part Two. -- Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art StudiosBiotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm -- Working With Wetware -- Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications -- Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses -- Biographies -- Back Cover.
Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers - people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and challenging creative work. "For decades, it seems, there has been debate about the technological basis of so-called new media art. In this enlightening volume, the editors have enlisted a comprehensive body of opinion by theorists and practitioners to present one complex answer - it's the context, stupid."--Steve Dietz, founding artistic director, Northern Lights.mn and the OISJ Biennial. "Media art is not just an art form that utilizes media technology, as people tend to think. This excellent volume, written by pioneers in the field, explores its real meanings to us and our society with ample examples and theoretical insight. Such a book has been long needed."--Machiko Kusahara, media art curator, author, Professor, Waseda University, Japan. "With major essays written by a range of experts in this emerging field, Context Providers articulates a seminal language to previously unexplored territories. It explores ethics in the conditions of meaning in ways that are both accessible and provocative."--Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, filmmaker, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis. --Book Jacket.
9781841505398 (electronic bk.) 1841505390 (electronic bk.) 1841503088 9781841503080
9786613162892 9781841503080
316289 MIL
GBB6F5521 bnb
017813699 Uk
Mass media and the arts.
Art and technology.
New media art.
Computer art.
Video art.
Médias et arts.
Art et technologie.
Arts médiatiques.
Art vidéo.
video art.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Art and technology.
Computer art.
Mass media and the arts.
New media art.
Video art.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
NX180.M3 / C68 2011eb
700/.1/05