Book Description
Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated.
Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field.
Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between art and technology, and the exciting new cultural conditions we are experiencing.
Book Info
Surveys the major impact of video and digital technologies on visual culture and artistic practice and examines the revolutionary changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Hardcover, softcover not available. Previous edition: c1997. DLC: Postmodernism--United States.
About the Author
Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase. Her current webwork TURNS was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2002 and in the 2003 ZKM exhibition Banquet.
Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age FROM THE PUBLISHER
Digital Currents explores the impact of video and digital technologies on visual culture and artistic practice and examines the revolutionary changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.
SYNOPSIS
Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated.
Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field.
Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between art a
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