Digital Currents : Art in the Electronic Age

ISBN-13: 9780415307802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 376 str.

Margot Lovejoy

Opis

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalysed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated. Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field. Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between art and technology, and the exciting new cultu

Spis treści

Part One: Sources 1 Vision, Representation and Invention 2 The Machine Age and Modernism 3 The Electronic Era and Postmodernism Part Two: Media 4 Video as Time, Space, MOtion 5 Art in the Age of Digital Simulation 6 Art as Interactive Communications: Networking Global Culture 7 Transaesthetics

O autorze

Margot Lovejoy