Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Volume 20) (Electronic Mediations)

Vesna, Victoria

ISBN 10: 0816641196 / ISBN 13: 9780816641192

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press (edition First Edition), 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Volume 20) (Electronic Mediations)
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816641196
• ISBN 13: 9780816641192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the digitization of daily life.

 

Contributors: Sharon Daniel, U of California, Santa Cruz; Steve Deitz, Carleton College; Lynn Hershman Leeson, U of California, Davis; George Legrady, U of California, Santa Barbara; Eduardo Kac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Norman Klein, California Institute of the Arts; John Klima; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Robert F. Nideffer, U of California, Irvine; Nancy Paterson, Ontario College of Art and Design; Christiane Paul, School of Visual Arts in New York; Marko Peljhan, U of California, Santa Barbara; Warren Sack, U of California, Santa Cruz; Bill Seaman, Rhode Island School of Design; Grahame Weinbren, School of Visual Arts, New York.

 

Victoria Vesna is a media artist, and professor and chair of the Department of Design and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About the Author

Margot Lovejoy is professor emerita of visual arts at SUNY Purchase and the author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age.

Christiane Paul is adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art.

Victoria Vesna is a media artist and professor in the Department of Design and Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the UCLA ArtSci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network.