Net Condition – Art & Global Media: art and global media (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice) - Softcover

Weibel, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026273138X ISBN 13: 9780262731386

Publisher: MIT Press, 2001

Synopsis

The global reach of contemporary media has greatly influenced social, political, and physical space. Indeed, we are becoming inhabitants of information space. "net_condition" investigates the consequences of this phenomenon that is radically altering the public sphere, the private sphere, and the possibilities of creativity in the networked sphere.In studying the movement from photography to film, video, and now online art, art historians and theorists have held that each new medium introduces characteristics and conditions that are in some respects superior to those of previous media. The net is changing not only other media, but society itself, transforming social communication, art, and politics. The contributors view the net as a universal tool that is altering the local structures--from ethics to economics--of the historical world into nonlocal structures. In a world of distributed virtual realities, shared cyberspace, multilocal net-games, and online multiuser environments, millions of users interact in virtual info-spheres. In this global information world, net.art has become a means of expressing, as well as testing, social and political utopian ideas."net_condition" is published in conjunction with an international exhibition that took place simultaneously in Germany, Austria, Spain, and Japan. It includes the work of such critical writers as Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Claudia Gianetti, Edward S. Hermann, Armand Mattelart, and Siegfried Zielinski."Copublished with ZKM/Center for Art and Media and with steirischer herbst."

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Review

Its comprehensiveness will make it the standard work on the subject for years to come. -- Art Monthly, Jul-Aug 2001

About the Author

Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has edited other ZKM volumes published by the MIT Press, including, most recently, The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds. Timothy Druckrey is an independent curator and writer and editor of Ars Electronica: Facing the Future (MIT Press, 1999). He lectures internationally on the social impact of digital media, the transformations of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. Craig T. Palmer is Instructor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 026273138X
• ISBN 13: 9780262731386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398