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A Companion to Digital Art

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A Companion to Digital Art offers a definitive exploration of the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of digital art. The book combines fresh perspectives with the insights of leading theorists to showcase critical and theoretical approaches in this rapidly developing field. It covers the history and politics of digital art, its complex relationships with traditional institutions, and addresses practical challenges such as the presentation, documentation, and preservation of digital works amid technological obsolescence. This authoritative collection is both forward-looking and deeply informed by the technical aspects of digital creativity.
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This book is ideal for scholars, students, curators, and practitioners interested in digital art, art theory, and contemporary arts culture. It is well-suited for those seeking a comprehensive and critically informed overview of digital art's current landscape and future challenges.

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Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today’s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.

A Companion to Digital Art showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline. It explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions. The book provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.

It also tackles digital art’s primary practical challenges – how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence. Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital art.

Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119225744

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 January 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Series edited by Dana Arnold
  • Edited by Christiane Paul
  • Series edited by Dana Arnold

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 10.0mm

Height: 10.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 640

About the Author

Christiane Paul is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School, New York, USA, and also Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prof. Paul is a noted curator who oversees the Whitney’s artport website and has for more than a decade conceived and administered the museum’s new media exhibitions, including Data Dynamics (2001), Profiling (2007), and Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011). Other curatorial work includes The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, 2013); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); Feedforward - The Angel of History (LABoral, Spain, 2009); and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, 2009). She is the author of Digital Art (2003), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008), and co-editor with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna of Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (2011).

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