Fully illustrated throughout, and including many pictures of artworks never before seen in print,
Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artist's writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians.
Network Art: Practices and Positions explores emerging artistic responses to a world enveloped by the information networks. In its pages an international group of leading theorists and artists describe how artists have used the internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, to develop artworks that reflect upon the pervasive effects of a technology that has profoundly reordered our social, economic and cultural institutions.
This book covers a period from the mid 1990s to the present day and includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere, Josephine Bosma, Tilman Baumgärtel and Sarah Cook, side by side with descriptions of important projects by The Yes Men, Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 0100101110101101.org amongst many others. Fully illustrated throughout, Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artist's writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians. In doing so it develops a unique approach as it offers the first comprehensive attempt at understanding network art practice rooted in concrete descriptions of the systems and process of making it.
Contributors: 0100101110101101.ORG, Mark Amerika, Tilman Baumgärtel, Natalie Bookchin, Josephine Bosma, Sarah Cook, Tom Corby, Corby & Baily, Charlie Gere, Lisa Jevbratt, Lucy Kimbell, Thomson & Craighead and Kris Cohen, Maciej Wisniewski, The Yes Men.
Tom Corby is Senior Lecturer in Media Art at the University of Westminster and is an artist who specialises in media technologies. Recent exhibitions include Art meets media: Adventures in Perception at the NTT Inter-Communication Center (ICC), Tokyo and File media art festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil. His work has won a number of international awards, including prizes at The Post-Cagian Interactive, The Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo in 2001, Ars Electronica in 2001, and Cynet Art, Dresden in 1999.
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Series Editor: Colin Beardon New Media/Art