'Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the digitization of daily life.' - from the back cover
Alternative title

Electronic Mediations, Volume 20

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.VEV
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2007

No of pages

305

ISBN / ISSN

9780816641192

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Victoria VESNA

Part I. Database Aesthetics

1. Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of Everything - Victoria VESNA

2. Database as Symbolic Form - Lev MANOVICH

3. Ocean, Database, Recut - Grahame WEINBREN

4. Waiting for the World to Explode: How Data Convert into A Novel - Norman M. KLEIN

5. The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives - Christiane PAUL

6. The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 - Steve DIETZ

7. Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics - Bill SEAMAN

8. The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity - Sharon DANIEL

9. Network Aesthetics - Warren SACK

10. Game Engines as Embedded Systems - Robert T. NIDEFFER

Part II. Artists and Data Projects

11. Stock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface, and an Idea - Nancy PATERSON

12. Pockets Full of Memories - George LEGRADY

13. The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies, and the Shape of Things to Come - Lynn HERSHMAN-LEESON

14. Time Capsule: Networking the Biological [Biotech and Trauma] - Eduardo KAC

15. Aesthetics of ecosystm - John KLIMA

16. Polar - Marko PELJHAN

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