Description
Book SynopsisContext Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers—people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are shared, creating a need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning and identity. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and creative work that challenges the scientific.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART ONE Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience – Margot Lovejoy Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art – Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art – Sharon Daniel Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges – Mary Flanagan
PART TWO Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production – Christiane Paul Aesthetics of Information Visualization – Warren Sack Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time – Marina Gržinić Game Engines As Creative Frameworks – Robert F. Nideffer Mapping the Collective – Sara Diamond
PART THREE Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios – Victoria Vesna Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm – Anna Munster Working With Wetware – Ruth G. West Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications – Ellen K. Levy Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses – Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig
