Context Providers : Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts.

Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked envir...

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Main Author: Lovejoy, Margot
Other Authors: Paul, Christiane, Vesna, Victoria, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Intellect, 2010.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Part Three; Introduction; Part One; Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience; Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art; Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art; Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges; Part Two; Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production; Aesthetics of Information Visualization; Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time; Game Engines As Creative Frameworks; Mapping the Collective.
  • Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art StudiosBiotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm; Working With Wetware; Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications; Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses; Index; Biographies; Back Cover.