num_pages: 240
description: An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices. This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark exhibitions as Information at The Museum of Modern Art New York in 1970 and the equally influential Les Immatriaux initiated by the philosopher Jean-Franois Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou Paris in 1984. It reexamines work by artists of the 1960s to early 1980s from Les Levine and N. E. Thing Co. to General Idea and Jenny Holzer whose prescient grasp of information's significance resonates today. It also reinscribes into the narrative of art history technologically critical artworks that for years have circulated within new media festivals rather than in galleries. While information science draws distinctions between information signals and data artists from the 1960s to the present have questioned the validity and value of such boundaries. Artists have investigated information's materiality in signs records and traces; its immateriality in hidden codes structures and flows; its embodiment in instructions social interaction and political agency; its overload or uncontrollable excess challenging utopian notions of networked society; its potential for misinformation and disinformation subliminally altering our perceptions; and its post-digital unruliness unsettling fixed notions of history and place. Artists surveyed includeDavid Askevold Iain Baxter Guy Bleus Heath Bunting CAMP (Shaina Anand &amp; Ashok Sukumaran) Ami Clarke Richard Cochrane Rod Dickinson Hans Haacke Graham Harwood Jenny Holzer Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov Steve Lambert and the Yes Men Oliver Laric Les Levine Lszl Moholy-Nagy Muntadas Erhan Muratoglu Raqs Media Collective Erica Scourti Stelarc Thomson &amp; Craighead Angie Waller Stephen Willats Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Elizabeth Vander Zaag Writers includeJames Bridle Matthew Fuller Francesca Gallo Antony Hudek Eduardo Kac Friedrich Kittler Arthur and Marielouise Kroker Scott Lash Alessandro Ludovico Jean-Franois Lyotard Charu Maithani Suhail Malik Armin Medosch Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Craig Saper Jorinde Seijdel Tom Sherman Felix Stalder McKenzie Wark Benjamin Weil
language: English
title: Information
publisher: The MIT Press