| At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet Contributor(s): Chandler, Annmarie (Editor), Neumark, Norie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262532859 ISBN-13: 9780262532853 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- "At a Distance" effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. "At a Distance" traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work -- including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | Art & Politics - Art | Digital |
| Dewey: 709.047 |
| Series: Leonardo Books |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 7.06" W x 8.96" (2.07 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Chandler, Annmarie: - Annmarie Chandler is Director of Emerging Field in New Media and Digital Culture at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.Neumark, Norie: - Norie Neumark, a sound and media artist, is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She coedited At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet and VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, both published by the MIT Press.Cubitt, Sean: - Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Cinema Effect and the coeditor of Relive: Media Art Histories, both published by the MIT Press. |