Retracing Political Dimensions: Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Retracing Political Dimensions

Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art

Edited by: Oliver Grau and Inge Hinterwaldner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670981

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About this book

At the beginning of the 21st century, new forms and dynamics of interplay are constituted at the interfaces of media, art and politics. Current challenges in society and ecology, like climate, surveillance, virtualization of the global financial markets, are characterized by hybrid and subtle technologies. They are ubiquitous, turn out to be increasingly complex and act invasively. New media art utilizes its broad range of expression in order to tackle the most urgent topics through multi-sensorial, participatory, and activist approaches. This volume shows how media artists address, with a political lens, the core of these developments critically and productively.

With contributions by Elisa Arca, Andrés Burbano, Derek Curry, Yael Eylat Van Essen, Mathias Fuchs, Jennifer Gradecki, Sabine Himmelsbach, Ingrid Hoelzl, Katja Kwastek, José-Carlos Mariátegui, Gerald Nestler, Randall Packer, Viola Rühse, Chris Salter.

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Oliver Grau, Danube University, Krems; Inge Hinterwaldner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Oliver Grau and Inge Hinterwaldner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I: Political Dimensions in Digital Imagery
Image-Transaction What You See is Not What You Get Ingrid Hoelzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Digital Art’s Political Impact Time for Hard Humanities Oliver Grau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Part II: “Freedom Act” Aestheticization of Surveillance, Counterveillance, and Participatory Agendas
Coping with Uncertainty Being Resilient Yael Eylat Van Essen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Cultural Politics of Games Mathias Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Artistic Research and Technocratic Consciousness Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part III: Touching Communication Strategies
Social Broadcasting An Unfinished Communications Revolution Randall Packer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
From Celestial Maneuvers to Atmospheric Turmoil Aesthetic, Political, and Ecological Dimensions of Sky Art and Space Art Inge Hinterwaldner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
When Are We? Adventures in the Machine Readable Self Chris Salter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Part IV: Technopolitics and Artistic Agency Global Ecology in New Media Art
Physical Computing and the Political Economy of Machines The Monetary National Income Analog Computer Andrés Burbano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Countering Capitulation An Arts-Based, Postdisciplinary Approach to Resolving Non-Transparency Gerald Nestler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Capitalocene Art Entanglements of Technology, Economy, and Geopolitics in Works of Femke Herregraven, Angela Melitopoulos, and Hito Steyerl Katja Kwastek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part V: Machine Learning, Data Visualizations, and Architecture The (In)visible Infrastructures of Information Systems
Double-bind Information Systems in the Work of Teresa Burga Elisa Arca and José-Carlos Mariátegui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Entangled Realities How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping our World Sabine Himmelsbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Facebook’s MPK 20 Headquarters designed by Frank Gehry Viola Rühse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Illustrations Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art history, culture history, politics, media theorists, artists.
Pages
- Main content: 265
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 59
Keywords: Politik; Medienkunst; Kunsttheorie; Digitale Kunst

eBook

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110670981

Paperback

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110670943