Context Providers
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
350 pages
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70 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2011
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
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
Index
Biographies
Review Quotes
Machiko Kusahara, Waseda University, Tokyo
“Media art is not just an art form that utilizes media technology, as people tend to think. This excellent volume, written by pioneers in the field, explores its real meanings to us and our society with ample examples and theoretical insight. Such a book has been long needed.”
Steve Dietz, founder and artistic director at Northern Lights, an media-oriented art agency
“For decades, it seems, there has been debate about the technological basis of so-called new media art. In this enlightening volume, the editors have enlisted a comprehensive body of opinion by theorists and practitioners to present one complex answer—it’s the context, stupid.”
Choice
The essays in Context Providers are rich with observations from artists, educators, humanists, scientists, and curators who address the recent histories of digital media and the ways in which media art and culture challenge and reframe ways of constructing meaning through the creative process and people’s engagement with it. They are supplemented by notes and references and, when illustrated, are annotated with captions that offer further commentary.”
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