Title & Author:

Net condition : art and global media / edited by Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckrey.

Publication:

Description:

398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

Electronic culture--history, theory, practice

Notes:
Published in the connection with an exhibition, film program, and symposia in Graz (1998), and exhibitions 1999 in Barcelona, Graz, Karlsruhe, and Tokyo.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition, film program, and symposia in Graz (1998), and exhibitions in Barcelona, Graz, Karlsruhe, and Tokyo in 1999.
Initial conditions -- Social conditions -- Media conditions -- Community conditions -- Ideological conditions -- Critical conditions -- Artistic conditions -- Sound conditions -- Cinematic conditions -- Broadcast conditions -- Surveillance conditions -- Subversive conditions -- Gender conditions -- Urban conditions -- Economic conditions -- Power conditions -- Working conditions.
"A publication by MIT Press, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, and ZKM/Center for Art and Global Media Karlsruhe of the exhibitions 'art and global media' and 'net-condition' ... curated by Peter Weibel" - colophon.

Summary:

The global reach of contemporary media has greatly influenced social, political, and physical space. Indeed, we are becoming inhabitants of information space. net_condition investigates the consequences of this phenomenon that is radically altering the public sphere, the private sphere, and the possibilities of creativity in the networked sphere. In studying the movement from photography to film, video, and now online art, art historians and theorists have held that each new medium introduces characteristics and conditions that are in some respects superior to those of previous media. The net is changing not only other media, but society itself, transforming social communication, art, and politics. The contributors view the net as a universal tool that is altering the local structures--from ethics to economics--of the historical world into nonlocal structures. In a world of distributed virtual realities, shared cyberspace, multilocal net-games, and online multiuser environments, millions of users interact in virtual info-spheres. In this global information world, net.art has become a means of expressing, as well as testing, social and political utopian ideas.net_condition is published in conjunction with an international exhibition that took place simultaneously in Germany, Austria, Spain, and Japan. It includes the work of such critical writers as Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Claudia Gianetti, Edward S. Hermann, Armand Mattelart, and Siegfried Zielinski. Copublished with ZKM/Center for Art and Media and with steirischer herbst.

Resources:
Table of Contents

ISBN:

026273138X (paperback)
9780262731386 (paperback)

Subject:

Mass media and the arts Exhibitions.
Computer art Exhibitions.
Multimedia (Art) Exhibitions.
Webcasting Exhibitions.
Médias et arts Expositions.
Art numérique Expositions.
Œuvres multimédias (Art) Expositions.
Webdiffusion Expositions.
Computer art.
Mass media and the arts.
Multimedia (Art)
Webcasting.
Computerkunst.
Internet.
Art numérique.
Art et technologie.
Technologie et arts.
Médias et art.
Mass media and art Exhibitions.
Digital art Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Conference publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Weibel, Peter.
Druckrey, Timothy.
Electronic culture--history, theory, practice.

Art and global media

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226168
Call No.: NX180.M3 N4 2001
Status: Available