Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Digital

Antienne du marketing touristique, la notion d'authenticité qualifie des sites « naturels », des biens culturels, et des pratiques sociales qui sont pourtant en constante évolution. Cet ouvrage, qui mêle approches historiques, analyses critiques et études de cas, réunit des contributions d'enseignants-chercheurs et d'experts en écologie, en tourisme et en art. Ils interrogent la manière dont l'authenticité peut être définie, mesurée et vécue par les publics et les acteurs du patrimoine. L'ouvrage s'articule autour de trois axes : perspectives historiques et pratiques...

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...

In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems -- understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things" -- have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality -- how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes, "to produce patterns,...