<nettime-ann> [pub] new book on network art

["tom" <tom@athomas.demon.co.uk>]

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Network Art
Practices and Positions
Edited by: Tom Corby

Publisher:Routledge

Network Art brings an international group of leading theorists and
artists 
together to investigate how the internet, in the form of websites,
mailing 
lists, installations and performance, has been used by artists to develop

artwork.
Covering a period from the mid 1990s to the present day, this fascinating

text includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere,

Josephine Bosma, Tilman Buarmgartel and Sarah Cook, alongside
descriptions 
of important projects by Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 
0100101110101101.org amongst many others.

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. In doing so it takes a unique approach,

offering the first comprehensive attempt to understand network art
practice, 
rooted in descriptions of the systems and the process required to create
it.

Contents:
Contributor Notes. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Contexts: Chapter 1. 
Introduction. Chapter 2. The History of Network Art. Chapter 3. Art as 
Experience: Meet the Active Audience. Chapter 4. Context Specific
Curating 
on the Web (CSCW?). Chapter 5. The Ludic Hack: Artistic Explorations of 
Computer Games. Part 2: Practices: Chapter 6. Grave Digging and Net Art:
A 
Proposal for the Future. Chapter 7. Inquires in Infomics. Chapter 8.
Softer 
Side of Art. Chapter 9. System Poetics and Software Refuseniks. Chapter
10. 
Digital Bop Poetics. Chapter 11. The Wrong Categories? Chapter 12. If 
Networked Art is the Answer What is the Question? Chapter 13. Dow
Chemical 
just says 'yes' to Bhopal. Chapter 14. Life Sharing: a Real-time Digital

Self-portrait

Series Information:
Innovations in Art and Design

Author Biography:
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.

Full Contributors:
0100101110101101.ORG, Mark Amerika, Tilman Baumgä²´el, 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.

ISBN:0415364795
Pub Date:22 DEC 2005
Type:Hardback Book
Price:£75.00
Illustrations:83 halftones



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