At a distance : precursors to art and activism on the Internet / edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interactive, algorithmic, networked : aesthetics of new media art / Johanna Drucker -- Immaterial material : physicality, corporality, and dematerialization in telecommunication artworks / Tilman Baumgärtel -- From representation to networks : interplays of visualities, apparatuses, discourses, territories and bodies / Reinhard Braun -- The mail art exhibition : personal worlds to cultural strategies / John Held, Jr. -- Fluxus praxis : an exploration of connections, creativity, and community / Owen F. Smith -- Animating the social : mobile image/Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz / Annmarie Chandler -- An unsuspected future in broadcasting : negativland / Don Joyce -- Mini-FM : performing microscopic distance (an e-mail interview with Tetsuo Kogawa) / Tetsuo Kogawa with Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark -- From the Gulf War to the Battle of Seattle : building an international alternative media network / Jesse Drew -- The form : 1970-1979 and other extemporaneous anomalous assemblings / Melody Sumner Carnahan -- Networked psychoanalysis : a dialogue with Anna Freud Banana / Craig Saper -- From mail art to telepresence : communication at a distance in the works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac / Simone Osthoff -- Distance makes the art grow further : distributed authorship and telematic textuality in La plissure du texte / Roy Ascott -- From BBS to wireless : a story of art in chips / Andrew Garton -- REALTIME : radio art, telematic art, and telerobotics : two examples / Heidi Grundmann -- Estri-dentistas : taking the teeth out of futurism / María Fernández -- Computer network music bands : a history of the league of automatic music composers and the hub / Chris Brown and John Bischoff -- Assembling magazines and alternative artists' networks / Stephen Perkins --The wealth and poverty of networks / Ken Friedman -- From internationalism to transnations : networked art and activism / Sean Cubitt.

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Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work -- including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.

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