Full Description
Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers—people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are shared, creating a need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning and identity. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and creative work that challenges the scientific.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE
Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience - Margot Lovejoy
Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art - Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken
Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art - Sharon Daniel
Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges - Mary Flanagan
PART TWO
Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production - Christiane Paul
Aesthetics of Information Visualization - Warren Sack
Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time - Marina Gržinić
Game Engines As Creative Frameworks - Robert F. Nideffer
Mapping the Collective - Sara Diamond
PART THREE
Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios - Victoria Vesna
Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm - Anna Munster
Working With Wetware - Ruth G. West
Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications - Ellen K. Levy
Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses - Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig
