Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
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.\ \ Contributors:...
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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. Contributors: Sharon Daniel, U of California, Santa Cruz; Steve Deitz, Carleton College; Lynn Hershman Leeson, U of California, Davis; George Legrady, U of California, Santa Barbara; Eduardo Kac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Norman Klein, California Institute of the Arts; John Klima; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Robert F. Nideffer, U of California, Irvine; Nancy Paterson, Ontario College of Art and Design; Christiane Paul, School of Visual Arts in New York; Marko Peljhan, U of California, Santa Barbara; Warren Sack, U of California, Santa Cruz; Bill Seaman, Rhode Island School of Design; Grahame Weinbren, School of Visual Arts, New York. Victoria Vesna is a media artist, and professor and chair of the Department of Design and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction Victoria Vesna ixDatabase AestheticsSeeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of Everything Victoria Vesna 3Database as Symbolic Form Lev Manovich 39Ocean, Database, Recut Grahame Weinbren 61Waiting for the World to Explode: How Data Convert into a Novel Norman M. Klein 86The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives Christiane Paul 95The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 Steve Dietz 110Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics Bill Seaman 121The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity Sharon Daniel 142Network Aesthetics Warren Sack 183Game Engines as Embedded Systems Robert F. Nideffer 211Artists and Data ProjectsStock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface, and an Idea Nancy Paterson 233Pockets Full of Memories George Legrady 243The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies, and the Shape of Things to Come Lynn Hershman-Leeson 249Time Capsule:Networking the Biological [Biotech and Trauma] Eduardo Kac 253Aesthetics of ecosystm John Klima 260Polar Marko Peljhan 269Publication History 279Contributors 281Index 285
