Overview

Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers—people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are shared, creating a need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning and identity. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and creative work that challenges the scientific.

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Author:   Margot Lovejoy ,  Victoria Vesna (University of California Los Angeles, USA) ,  Christiane Paul
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9781841503080

ISBN 10:   1841503088
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   15 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction   PART ONE   Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience – Margot Lovejoy   Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art – Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken   Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art – Sharon Daniel   Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges – Mary Flanagan   PART TWO   Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production – Christiane Paul   Aesthetics of Information Visualization – Warren Sack   Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time – Marina Gržinić   Game Engines As Creative Frameworks – Robert F. Nideffer   Mapping the Collective – Sara Diamond   PART THREE    Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios – Victoria Vesna   Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm – Anna Munster   Working With Wetware – Ruth G. West   Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications – Ellen K. Levy   Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses – Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig

Reviews

For decades, it seems, there has been debate about the technological basis of so-called new media art. In this enlightening volume, the editors have enlisted a comprehensive body of opinion by theorists and practitioners to present one complex answer--it's the context, stupid. --Steve Dietz, founder and artistic director at Northern Lights, an media-oriented

With major essays written by a range of experts in this emerging field, Context Providers articulates a seminal language to previously unexplored territories. It explores ethics in the conditions of meaning in ways that are both accessible and provocative. --Lynn Hershman Leeson, University of California, Davis<br><br>

Author Information

Margot Lovejoy is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase and author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (Routledge, 2004). Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. Victoria Vesna is a media artist, and a Professor at the Department of Design/Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts.

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