At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet

Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2005-02-18
  • 售價: $1,240
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 496
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262033283
  • ISBN-13: 9780262033282
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Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice.

At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work -- including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.

Annmarie Chandler is Director of Emerging Field in New Media and Digital Culture at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Norie Neumark is Associate Professor of Media Arts and Production at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

 

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword ix
Foreword
Joel Slayton
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Relays, Delays, and Distance
Norie Neumark
2
I Critical Perspectives on Distance Art/Activist Practices 26
1 Interactive, Algorithmic, Networked: Aesthetics of New Media Art
Johanna Drucker
34
2 Immaterial Material: Physicality, Corporality, and Dematerialization in Telecommunication Artworks
Tilman Baumgärtel
60
3 From Representation to Networks: Interplays of Visualities, Apparatuses, Discourses, Territories and Bodies
Reinhard Braun; Translated by Cecilia White
72
4 The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies
John Held, Jr.
88
5 Fluxus Praxis: An Exploration of Connections, Creativity, and Community
Owen F. Smith
116
II Artists/Activists Re-view Their Projects 140
6 Animating the Social: Mobile Image/Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
Annmarie Chandler
152
7 An Unsuspected Future in Broadcasting: Negativland
Don Joyce
176
8 Mini-FM: Performing Microscopic Distance (an Email Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa)
Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark
190
9 From the Gulf War to the Battle of Seattle: Building an International Alternative Media
Jesse Drew
210
10 The Form: 1970-1979 and Other Extemporaneous Anomalous Assemblings
Melody Sumner Carnahan
226
11 Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana
Craig Saper
246
12 From Mail Art to Telepresence: Communication at a Distance in the Works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac
Simone Osthoff
260
13 Distance Makes the Art Grow Further: Distributed Authorship and Telematic Textuality in La Plissure du Texte
Roy Ascott
282
14 From BBS to Wireless: A Story of Art in Chips
Andrew Garton
298
15 REALTIME -- Radio Art, Telematic Art, and Telerobotics: Two Examples
Heidi Grundmann
314
III Networking Art/Activist Practices 336
16 Estri-Dentistas: Taking the Teeth out of Futurism
Maria Fernandez
342
17 Computer Network Music Bands: A History of the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub
Chris Brown and John Bischoff
372
18 Assembling Magazines and Alternative Artists' Networks
Stephen Perkins
392
19 The Wealth and Poverty of Networks
Ken Friedman
408
20 From Internationalism to Transnations: Networked Art and Activism
Sean Cubitt
424
Conclusion
Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark
438
Timeline 444
List of Contributors 470
Index 476

 

 

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藝術家之間的網絡合作並不是從互聯網開始的。在這本跨學科的藝術實踐研究中,理論家和實踐者們探討了藝術、行動主義和媒體在1970年代和1980年代的實驗性網絡項目中如何從根本上重新配置彼此。通過提供這些作品的背景,展示它們是由不同的社會關係、文化策略、政治和美學關注所塑造的,本書有效地反駁了廣泛接受的網絡藝術是技術決定的觀點。這樣做,為更全面地理解當今互聯網藝術和行動主義實踐提供了必要的歷史基礎,並暗示了網絡實踐中的潛力。《遠距離》追溯了郵件藝術、聲音和廣播藝術、遠程藝術、組合藝術和Fluxus等實驗性藝術項目的歷史和理論。儘管這些項目有所不同,但對“藝術物件”的概念質疑,以及對主流藝術機構實踐的政治破壞,是大多數遠距離藝術的核心。在將這些作品置於歷史和批評的背景下之後,本書呈現了參與這種藝術的藝術家和其他人“重新審視”他們的作品,包括“迷你FM”實驗、遠程機器人技術、網絡心理分析和互動書籍製作。最後,本書從政治、美學、經濟和跨文化分析的角度重新詮釋了網絡的歷史。Annmarie Chandler是悉尼科技大學新媒體和數字文化新興領域主任。Norie Neumark是悉尼科技大學媒體藝術和製作副教授。

目錄:
系列前言
序言
致謝
引言:中繼、延遲和距離
第一章:郵件藝術
第二章:聲音和廣播藝術
第三章:遠程藝術
第四章:組合藝術
第五章:Fluxus
第六章:迷你FM
第七章:遠程機器人技術
第八章:網絡心理分析
第九章:互動書籍製作
第十章:網絡的政治、美學、經濟和跨文化分析
作者簡介