Title: Context providers : conditions of meaning in media arts /
Authors: Lovejoy, Margot; Paul, Christiane; Vesna, Victoria, 1959-
Publisher: Intellect,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mass media and the arts; Popular culture; Art and technology; Computer art; Interactive art; Contextualism (Philosophy); Art and science
Abstract: "Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments increase the need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning. Moreover, Context Providers considers the work of media artists who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration and active dialogue. Context Providers will appeal to art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art administrators, grant providers and those studying both practice and theory in media arts."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience -- Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art -- Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art -- Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges -- Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production -- Aesthetics of Information Visualization -- Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time -- Game Engines As Creative Frameworks -- Mapping the Collective -- Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios -- Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm -- Working With Wetware -- Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications -- Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses.