Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium -- with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.

Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as "postinternet." Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others. Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again.

Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

ContributorsCory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Michael Bell-Smith, Claire Bishop, Dora Budor, Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Petra Cortright, Jesse Darling, Anne de Vries, DIS, Aleksandra Domanović, Harm van den Dorpel, Dragan Espenschied, Rózsa Zita Farkas, Azin Feizabadi, Alexander R. Galloway, Boris Groys, Ed Halter, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Jogging, Caitlin Jones, David Joselit, Dina Kafafi, John Kelsey, Alex Kitnick, Tina Kukielski, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, David Levine, Olia Lialina, Guthrie Lonergan, Jordan Lord, Jens Maier-Rothe, Shawn Maximo, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Gene McHugh, Tom Moody, Ceci Moss, Katja Novitskova, Marisa Olson, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Alexander Provan, Morgan Quaintance, Domenico Quaranta, Raqs Media Collective, Alix Rule, Timur Si-Qin, Josephine Berry Slater, Paul Slocum, Rebecca Solnit, Wolfgang Staehle, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Ben Vickers, Michael Wang, Tim Whidden, Anicka Yi, and Damon Zucconi

自千禧年以來，互聯網已從僅僅是一種新媒體演變為一種真正的大眾媒體 - 具有更深入和廣泛的文化影響力，更多的分發和合作機會，以及更複雜的企業和政治現實。《大眾效應》通過對一系列具有形成性論點、發展和事件的鬆散時間排序，提供了一個理解藝術與新技術之間動態且持續的關係的基本指南。

《大眾效應》匯集了近四十篇文章，包括新委託的論文和再版文章、圖像作品集，以及轉錄的討論小組和講座，提供了來自各種藝術家、策展人、藝術史學家和博客作者的見解和反思。其中探討的主題包括在商業平台上進行藝術實踐、在日益增加的監控時代藝術的意義，以及圍繞“後互聯網”等最近概念的問題。其他文章分析和記錄了And/Or Gallery、Cory Arcangel、DIS、曹斐、Radical Software Group等藝術家的特定作品。《大眾效應》重新啟動了麻省理工學院出版社和紐約新博物館於1984年開始的一個出版系列，該系列為當代藝術領域出版了六本具有定義性的著作。這些新著作將在這一歷史性合作關係的基礎上進一步發展，再次激活關於當代文化的對話。

與紐約當代藝術博物館共同出版

貢獻者：Cory Arcangel、Karen Archey、Michael Bell-Smith、Claire Bishop、Dora Budor、Johanna Burton、Paul Chan、Ian Cheng、Michael Connor、Lauren Cornell、Petra Cortright、Jesse Darling、Anne de Vries、DIS、Aleksandra Domanović、Harm van den Dorpel、Dragan Espenschied、Rózsa Zita Farkas、Azin Feizabadi、Alexander R. Galloway、Boris Groys、Ed Halter、Alice Ming Wai Jim、Jogging、Caitlin Jones、David Joselit、Dina Kafafi、John Kelsey、Alex Kitnick、Tina Kukielski、Oliver Laric、Mark Leckey、David Levine、Olia Lialina、Guthrie Lonergan、Jordan Lord、Jens Maier-Rothe、Shawn Maximo、Jennifer McCoy、Kevin McCoy、Gene McHugh、Tom Moody、Ceci Moss、Katja Novitskova、Marisa Olson、Trevor Paglen、Seth Price、Alexander Provan、Morgan Quaintance、Domenico Quaranta、Raqs Media Collective、Alix Rule、Timur Si-Qin、Josephine Berry Slater、Paul Slocum、Rebecca Solnit、Wolfgang Staehle、Hito Steyerl、Martine Syms、Ben Vickers、Michael Wang、Tim Whidden、Anicka Yi和Damon Zucconi。