At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work, which included experiments in "mini-FM," telebotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspective of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.’ (excerpt from back cover)
Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.CHA11
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

486

ISBN / ISSN

9780262532853

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

I Critical Perspectives on Distance Art/ Activist Practices

Interactive, Algorithmic, Networked: Aesthetics of New Media Art - Johanna DRUCKER

Immaterial Material: Physicality, Corporality, and Dematerialization in Telecommunication Artworks - Tilman BAUMGARTEL

From Representation to Networks: Interplays of Visualities, Apparatuses, Discourses, Territories and Bodies - Reinhard BRAUN

The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies - John HELD Jr.

Fluxus Praxis: An Exploration of Connections - Owen SMITH

II Artists/ Activists Re-view Their Projects

Animating the Social: Mobile Image/Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz - Annmarie CHANDLER

An Unsuspected Future in Broadcasting Negativland - Don JOYCE

Mini-Film: Performing Microscope Distance (An E-Mail Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa)- Tetsuo Kogawa with Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark

From the Gulf War to the Battle of Seattle: Building an International Alternative Media Network - Jess DREW

The Form: 1970-1979 and Other Extemporaneous Anomalous Assemblings - Melody Sumner CARNAHAN

Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana - Craig SAPER

From Mail Art to Telepresence: Communication at a Distance in the Works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac - Simone OSTHOFF

Distance Makes the Art Grow Further: Distributed Authorship and Telematic Textuality in La Plissure du Texte - Roy ASCOTT

From BBS to Wireless: A Story of Art in Chips - Andrew GARTON

REALTIME- Radio Art, Telematic Art, and Telerobotics: Two Examples - Heidi GRUNDMANN

III Networking Art/ Activist Practices

Estri-Dentistas: Taking the Teeth out of Futurism - Maria FERNANDEZ

Computer Network Music Bands: A History of the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub - Chris BROWN, John BISCHOFF

Assembling Magazines and Alternative Artists' Networks - Stephen PERKINS

The Wealth and Poverty of Networks - Ken FRIEDMAN

From Internationalism to Transnationalism: Networked Art and Activism - Sean CUBITT

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
分享
引用
Rights statement

In Copyright

What does this mean?

This item is covered by one or more copyrights. It is available for research only or use within Hong Kong’s fair dealing rules. Please do not copy, re-use or reproduce this item without the permission of the copyright holder.

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet