Database aesthetics [electronic resource]: art in the age of information overflowViktorija Vesna Bulajić U of Minnesota Press, 2007 - 305 pages 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. |
Common terms and phrases
algorithm approach architecture archive Artificial Intelligence artists become behavior body cellular automata cinema cognitive collaborative collection common sense complex concept connection construction context create creative cultural database aesthetics Deleuze dynamic ecosystm Eduardo Kac elements emergent environment essay example exhibition experience exploration field film frames function game engine Gee's Bend Gilles Deleuze human images installation interaction interface Internet Jean-François Lyotard keywords language Lev Manovich machine Machinima Manovich material meaning media-elements memory metaphor Museum Nancy Paterson nature navigation notion Ocean organized participants patterns phenomenology photograph physical player potential Press production quilts recombinant relation representation screen social Solaris space Spacewar Stock Market Skirt story structure teleology tensegrity tion University Victoria Vesna viewer virtual Visible Human Project visitors visual York Zorns Lemma