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Book SynopsisUp-to-date account of media art issues in the early 21st century
Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.
Contributors: Hava Aldouby (The Open University of Israel), Grant Bollmer (North Carolina State University / University of Sydney), Andrea Pinotti (University of Milan), Daniel H. Landau (Aalto University / Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), Wendy Jo Coones (Danube University Krems), Paul Sermon (University of Brighton), Ryszard Kluszczynski (University of Lodz), Derek Curry (Northeastern University, Boston), Jennifer Gradecki (SUNY Buffalo / Northeastern University, Boston), Tsila Hassine (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design / Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne), Ziv Neeman (independent scholar), Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica, Linz), Aaron Burton (University of Wollongong), Yvonne Volkart (Academy of Art and Design, FHNW Basel), Jens Hauser (IKK & Medical Museion, Copenhagen University), Adam Brown (Michigan State University), Jonas Jørgensen (IT University of Copenhagen), Olga Kisseleva (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Trade ReviewAll contributions are academically and artistically on the cutting edge, and, displaying a critical awareness of various aspects of presence, empathy and agency, they provide the reader with a consistent, multifaceted overview.Alessandro Ludovico, Neural,
8 feb 2021
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shifting Interfaces
Hava Aldouby
I Immersion, Empathy, and Presence: Manipulating the Boundaries of Self and Body
From Immersion to Empathy: The Legacy of Einfühlung in Virtual Reality and Digital Art
Grant Bollmer
Avatars: Shifting Identities in a Genealogical Perspective
Andrea Pinotti
Meeting Yourself in Virtual Reality: A Performative Experiment in Self-Compassion
Daniel Landau
Art and Presence: Investigating Embodiment in a Virtual Art Gallery
Hava Aldouby
Shared Objective Empathy in Telematic Space
Paul Sermon
Elaborating Mediation Through Media Arts
Wendy Coones
II Subjects of Surveillance: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Big Data Universe
Qualculative Poetics: An Artistic Critique of Rational Judgment
Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki
Google, Shmoogle: A Critical Twist on Search Engine Ideology
Ziv Neeman and Tsila Hassine
Sculpting Time: The Art of Collective Memory
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski
The Logic of Participation in Digital Art and Network Culture
Manuela Naveau
Aesthetic Strategies in the Wasteocene
Yvonne Volkart
III Bacteria and Smart Objects: Presences Beyond the Human
Rehabilitating Bacteria: An Epistemological Art/Science Interface
Jens Hauser
Exceptional Matters
Adam W. Brown
From So Sculpture to So Robotics: Retracing Entropic Aesthetics of the Life-like
Jonas Jørgensen
Natures Mortes, Live Data: The Art Object in the IoT Era
Tsila Hassine, Olga Kisseleva
Unmanned Imaging of the Anthropocene
Aaron Burton
List of Contributors
Index
Color Plates
