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"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.
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Database Aesthetics | |
| Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of Everything | p. 3 |
| Database as Symbolic Form | p. 39 |
| Ocean, Database, Recut | p. 61 |
| Waiting for the World to Explode: How Data Convert into a Novel | p. 86 |
| The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives | p. 95 |
| The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 | p. 110 |
| Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics | p. 121 |
| The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity | p. 142 |
| Network Aesthetics | p. 183 |
| Game Engines as Embedded Systems | p. 211 |
| Artists and Data Projects | |
| Stock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface, and an Idea | p. 233 |
| Pockets Full of Memories | p. 243 |
| The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies, and the Shape of Things to Come | p. 249 |
| Time Capsule: Networking the Biological [Biotech and Trauma] | p. 253 |
| Aesthetics of ecosystm | p. 260 |
| Polar | p. 269 |
| Publication History | p. 279 |
| Contributors | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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ISBN: 9780816641185
ISBN-10: 0816641188
Series: Electronic Mediations
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 1st August 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.0
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.621
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