Description
Book SynopsisIn the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people's mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways.
This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia. The author demonstrates that these actors are part of an international creative and social vanguard that reflect on, criticise and rework the multidimensional impact of the visual media in imaginative and innovative ways. Their work explores alternative and more sustainable presents and futures for Indonesia and the world. This research is urgent and timely, as Indonesia has emerged in recent years as one of the world's most vibrant hubs for contemporary art and media experimentation.
Using an innovative interdis
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: Media Environments
2. Media Critique
3. Media Literacy
Part 2: Media Reflexivity
4. Media Democracy
5. Video Bodies
6. Video Interactivity
Part 3. Media Utopia
7. Participatory Media
8. Video Communities
9. Video Simulations
Part 4: Media Ecologies
10. Sustainable Media
11. Disaster Media
12. Conclusion
