Book Description
Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.
Author : Colin Beardon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789026519390
Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.
Author : Hubert Burda
Publisher : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 9783770551934
As digital technology advances at breakneck speed, Images are circulating quicker than ever before. But what is the status of the image in the digital era? In The Digital Wunderkammer, art historian Hubert Burda (born 1940) examines the "iconic turn" in ten themed chapters and conversations with leading cultural theorists. In the first chapter, "The View Through the Window," Burda traces the connection between perspectival painting and the television, demonstrating in the second chapter how the image requires a frame, which in turn requires a material vehicle--the topic of the third chapter--that in our era has become a non-material vehicle with its own formal parameters. In the fourth chapter, "The Mobile Image," Burda shows how images have always been linked to portability, but now migrate to an unprecedented degree, so that anyone with a personal device can globally disseminate, say, footage from a concert via Youtube. A discussion of the capacity of individual images to placate or ennervate leads to a seventh chapter on the appetite for the Sublime and the rhetoric and representation of power throughout art history. Following a discussion of the democratization of celebrity culture, Burda proposes that the Google search box is perhaps the most interesting "interface" of our times, analogous to the seventeenth-century cabinet of curiosities (or wunderkammer). Conversations with Friedrich Kittler, Peter Sloterdijk, Bazon Brock, Horst Bredekamp and Hans Belting further extend this imaginative debate on the "iconic turn."
Author : Douglas Eyman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0472121138
What is “digital rhetoric”? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work and the world of digital rhetoric. The advent of digital and networked communication technologies prompts renewed interest in basic questions such as What counts as a text? and Can traditional rhetoric operate in digital spheres or will it need to be revised? Or will we need to invent new rhetorical practices altogether? Through examples and consideration of digital rhetoric theories, methods for both researching and making in digital rhetoric fields, and examples of digital rhetoric pedagogy, scholarship, and public performance, this book delivers a broad overview of digital rhetoric. In addition, Douglas Eyman provides historical context by investigating the histories and boundaries that arise from mapping this emerging field and by focusing on the theories that have been taken up and revised by digital rhetoric scholars and practitioners. Both traditional and new methods are examined for the tools they provide that can be used to both study digital rhetoric and to potentially make new forms that draw on digital rhetoric for their persuasive power.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Artists' books
ISBN :
Author : Serge Noiret
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 3110430290
This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in digital public history. Individual studies by internationally renowned public historians, digital humanists, and digital historians elucidate central issues in the field and present a critical account of the major public history accomplishments, research activities, and practices with the public and of their digital context. The handbook applies an international and comparative approach, looks at the historical development of the field, focuses on technical background and the use of specific digital media and tools. Furthermore, the handbook analyzes connections with local communities and different publics worldwide when engaging in digital activities with the past, indicating directions for future research, and teaching activities.
Author : David Balzer
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1770563873
"Now that we ‘curate’ even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? ‘Curate’ is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial studies programs continue to grow in popularity, and businesses are increasingly adopting curation as a means of adding value to content and courting demographics. Everyone, it seems, is a now a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture’s relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this incisive and original study, critic David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation – where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it was co-opted at the turn of the millennium as the dominant mode of organizing and giving value to content. At the centre of the book is a paradox: curation is institutionalized and expertise-driven like never before, yet the first independent curators were not formally trained, and any act of choosing has become ‘curating.’ Is the professional curator an oxymoron? Has curation reached a sort of endgame, where its widespread fetishization has led to its own demise? David Balzer has contributed to publications including the Believer, Modern Painters, Artforum.com, and The Globe and Mail, and is the author of Contrivances, a short-fiction collection. He is currently Associate Editor at Canadian Art magazine. Balzer was born in Winnipeg and currently resides in Toronto, where he makes a living as a critic, editor and teacher.
Author : Benjamin Louis Porter
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
My research aims to identify the rationale and methodology behind the creation of a Digital Wunderkammer. This Wunderkammer- an assemblage of photographic series, software experiments and found images - will attempt to represent the social and cultural repercussions of the widespread adoption of, and recent advances in, various digital technologies. Like its Renaissance and Baroque counterparts, my Digital Wunderkammer will be an attempt to create the world in miniature, and its final form will be that of the Museo Cartaceo (paper museum) - a collecting technique established in the seventeenth century by the Italian collector Cassiano dal Pozzo.My research identifies the digital cosmos from which the Wunderkammerdraws its parts, before examining two texts on which the conceptual framework of the Digital IFunderkammer is based: the first museological text ever published, Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones (1565) and Giulio Camillo's description of his "theatre of memory" L 1dea del Theatro (1550). I also identify the various modern photographic projects that have informed my Digital Wunderkammer, beginning with Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1924-29) and tracing a line predominantly through the post-war European artist book, toward the current generation of artists working with the artist's book, in the interpretation of the Internet and modern digital technologies. The final part of the research takes the form of an annotated catalogue of the Digital Wunderkammer itself.
Author : Adi Kuntsman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803822031
Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, developing new pedagogy for the field.
Author : Edward Benoit III
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783303565
The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archival community leveraged these new technologies, aiming to engage users and expand access to collections. This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application. Participatory Archives is divided into four sections with each focused on a particular aspect of participatory archives: social tagging and commenting; transcription; crowdfunding; and outreach & activist communities. Each section includes chapters summarizing the existing literature, a discussion of theoretical challenges and benefits, and a series of case studies. The case studies are written by a range of international practitioners and provide a wide range of examples in practice, whilst the remaining chapters are supplied by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This book will be useful for students on archival studies programs, scholarly researchers in archival studies who could use the book to frame their own research projects, and practitioners who might be most interested in the case studies to see how participatory archives function in practice. The book may also be of interest to other library and information science students, and similar audiences within the broader cultural heritage institution fields of museums, libraries, and galleries.
Author : Thomas Fillitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100018112X
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground, An Anthropology of Contemporary Art examines the local art markets, biennials, networks of collectors, curators, artists, patrons, auction houses, and museums that constitute the global art world.Divided into four parts – Picture and Medium; World Art Studies and Global Art; Art Markets, Maecenas and Collectors; Participatory Art and Collaboration – chapters go beyond the standard emphasis on Europe and North America to present first-hand fieldwork from a wide range of areas, including Brazil, Turkey, and Asia and the Pacific.With contributions from distinguished anthropologists such as Philippe Descola and Roger Sansi Roca, this book provides a fresh approach to key topics in the discipline. A model for demonstrating how contemporary art can be studied ethnographically, this is a vital read for students in anthropology of art, visual anthropology, visual culture, and related fields.