Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (by Victoria Vesna, editor)
Announcing: Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
by Victoria Vesna, editor
Electronic Mediations, volume 20. University of Minnesota Press, 2007
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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 aesthetics emerges when artists use the vast amounts of information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing an critiquing the digitization of daily life.
Seven members of UC DARnet from six campuses are represented in this volume!
Victoria Vesna (UCLA)
Sharon Daniel (UCSC), Steve Dietz, Lynn Hershman-Leeson (UCD), George Legrady (UCSB), Lev Manovich (UCSD), Robert F. Nideffer (UCI), Marko Peljhan (UCSB), Warren Sack (UCSC).
Michael Heim writes:
“This book ranges over a rich data bank of thoughts about and descriptions of digital media: from the software engines of video games to the conflicting interest of the cinematic narratives, from the many skins of the stock market to the artificially intelligent spy, from the design of chip implants for the human body, to the recombinant poetics of virtual worlds. Database Aesthetics claims the attention of anyone attuned to the design of current and incoming reality.”
Contributors:
Sharon Daniel, Steve Dietz, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Eduardo Kac, Norman M. Klein, John Klima, George Legrady, Lev Manovich, Robert F. Nideffer, Nancy Patterson, Christiane Paul, Marko Peljhan, Warren Sack, Bill Seaman, Grahame Weinbren.