Dominic Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art (2009)
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What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?
A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place particular emphasis on terms such as ‘interactivity’ and ‘user’.
Drawing on a wealth of examples he also explains how the roles of the computer artist and computer art user distinguishes them from makers and spectators of traditional art forms and argues that computer art allows us to understand better the role of technology as an art medium.
Publisher Routledge, 2009
ISBN 041554761X, 9780415547611
160 pages
review (Joshua Noble, Creative Applications Network)
review (Timothy Binkley, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism)
review (Jim Andrews, CIAC)
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Comments (2)John Cage: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, composing, electronic music, literature, music, painting, performance, sound recording
Collection of John Cage‘s essays, lectures and journal entries from 1961–1967. Includes “How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)” and “Juilliard Lecture”.
Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1967
ISBN 0819560022, 9780819560025
167 pages
Review: Virgil Thomson (New York Review of Books, 1970).
PDF (updated on 2012-8-3)
Comments (2)Roy Ascott (ed.): Art, Technologies, Consciousness: mind@large (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, artificial life, computer music, consciousness, interactivity, metaphysics, music, perception, performance, quantum mechanics, robotics, semiotics, synaesthesia, technoetics, technology, telematics
Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanating from the physical sciences as well as embracing spiritual and artistic aspects of human experience.
Developing on the studies published in Roy Ascott’s successful Reframing Consciousness, the book documents the very latest work from those connected with the internationally acclaimed CAiiA-STAR centre and its conferences. Their artistic and theoretical research in new media and art includes aspects of:
• artificial life
• robotics
• technoetics
• performance
• computer music
• intelligent architecture
• telematic art
With profound insights for those in fields of Art, Media and Design – both academics and professionals — this book will also provide new ideas for software designers working on material to be used by the arts community.
Publisher Intellect Books, 2000
ISBN 1841500410, 9781841500416
204 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-24)
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