Research Catalog

Title

Database aesthetics : art in the age of information overflow / Victoria Vesna, editor.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vesna, Victoria, 1959-

Description

xx, 305 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Electronic mediations ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Electronic mediations ; v. 20.

Subject

• Arts > Data processing
• Database design
• Information behavior
• Bases de données > Conception
• Comportement dans la recherche de l'information
• Arts > Informatique
• Arts > Data processing
• Database design
• Information behavior
• Datenverarbeitung
• Computerkunst
• Künste
• Esthetica
• Künste

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Seeing the world in a grain of sand : the database aesthetics of everything / Victoria Vesna -- Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich -- Ocean, database, recut / Grahame Weinbren -- Waiting for the world to explode : how data converts into a novel / Norman M. Klein -- The database as system and cultural form : anatomies of cultural narratives / Christiane Paul -- The database imaginary : Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 / Steve Dietz -- Recombinant poetics and related database aesthetics / Bill Seaman -- The database : an aesthetics of dignity / Sharon Daniel -- Network aesthetics / Warren Sack -- Game engines as embedded systems / Robert F. Nideffer -- Stock market skirt : the evolution of the Internet, the interface, and an idea / Nancy Paterson -- Pockets full of memories / George Legrady -- The raw data diet, all-consuming bodies, and the shape of things to come / Lynn Hershman-Leeson -- Time capsule : networking the biological [biotech and trauma] / Eduardo Kac -- Aesthetics of ecosystem / John Klima -- Polar / Marko Peljhan.

ISBN

• 9780816641185
• 0816641188
• 9780816641192
• 0816641196

LCCN

• 2007008226
• 99818577566

OCLC

• ocm85766116
• 85766116
• SCSB-1447384

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library