Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art

Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781040254387
ISBN-13 : 1040254381
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art by : Phaedra Shanbaum

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence, migration and political violence, contemporary medical technologies and practices, and the Anthropocene) and analyzed against a Western legacy of utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book’s main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle, and other forms of resistance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.

Aesthetics, Gender and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art

Aesthetics, Gender and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1003162894
ISBN-13 : 9781003162896
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetics, Gender and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art by : Phaedra Shanbaum

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence; migration and political violence; contemporary medical technologies and practices; the Anthropocene) and analyzed against a Western legacy of utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book's main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle and other forms of resistance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.

The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations

The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780429885990
ISBN-13 : 0429885997
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations by : Phaedra Shanbaum

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding our relationship with technology.

Bodies in Commotion

Bodies in Commotion
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9780472068913
ISBN-13 : 0472068911
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Bodies in Commotion by : Carrie Sandahl

Chicana Art

Chicana Art
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780822338680
ISBN-13 : 0822338688
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Chicana Art by : Laura E. Pérez

DIVThe first full-length survey of contemporary Chicana artists/div

Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780262528290
ISBN-13 : 0262528290
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art by : Katja Kwastek

An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art. Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike. Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art. Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork and then develops an aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her theory to specific works of interactive media art, including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive installations, and performance—with case studies of works by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby, Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory.

Disability and Contemporary Performance

Disability and Contemporary Performance
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781136500336
ISBN-13 : 1136500332
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Disability and Contemporary Performance by : Petra Kuppers

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
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Publisher : IGI Global
Total Pages : 780
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ISBN-10 : 9781591407980
ISBN-13 : 1591407982
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction by : Ghaoui, Claude

Esta enciclopedia presenta numerosas experiencias y discernimientos de profesionales de todo el mundo sobre discusiones y perspectivas de la la interacción hombre-computadoras

Teaching Visual Culture

Teaching Visual Culture
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0807743712
ISBN-13 : 9780807743713
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Teaching Visual Culture by : Kerry Freedman

Offering a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts (K-12 and higher education) from a cultural standpoint, the author discusses visual culture in a democracy.

Artificial Hells

Artificial Hells
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : 9781781683972
ISBN-13 : 1781683972
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Artificial Hells by : Claire Bishop

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.