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1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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Part one -- Defining conditions for digital arts : social function, authorship, and audience / Margot Lovejoy -- Missing in action : agency and meaning in interactive art / Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken -- Collaborative systems : redefining public art / Sharon Daniel -- Play, participation, and art : blurring the edges / Mary Flanagan -- Part two -- Contextual networks : data, identity, and collective production / Christiane Paul -- Aesthetics of information visualization / Warren Sack -- Identity operated in new mode : context and body/space/time / Marina Gržinić -- Game engines as creative frameworks / Robert F. Nideffer -- Mapping the collective / Sara Diamond -- Part three -- Shifting media contexts : when scientific labs become art studios / Victoria Vesna -- Biotechnical art and the ethico-aesthetic paradigm / Anna Munster -- Working with wetware / Ruth G. West -- Defining life : artists challenge conventional classifications / Ellen K. Levy -- Art and science research : active contexts and discourses / Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig |
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Preliminary Pages -- Part Three. -- Introduction -- Part One. -- 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 -- Part Two. -- 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 |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mass media and the arts.
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Mass media and the arts. |
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Art and technology.
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Art and technology. |
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New media art.
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New media art. |
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Computer art.
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Computer art. |
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Video art.
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Video art. |
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Electronic books.
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Lovejoy, Margot.
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Paul, Christiane.
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Vesna, Victoria, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613162892 |
| ISBN |
9781841505398 (electronic book) |
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1841505390 (electronic book) |
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9781841503080 |
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1841503088 |
| Standard No. |
9786613162892 |
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