1st Edition

Digital Currents Art in the Electronic Age

By Margot Lovejoy Copyright 2004
372 Pages 8 Color & 215 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

372 Pages 8 Color & 215 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

372 Pages 8 Color & 215 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each... Read more
Part One: Sources 1 Vision, Representation and Invention 2 The Machine Age and Modernism 3 The Electronic Era and Postmodernism Part Two: Media 4 Video as Time, Space, MOtion 5 Art in the Age of Digital Simulation 6 Art as Interactive Communications: Networking Global Culture 7 Transaesthetics

Biography

Margot Lovejoy

"Delineates the relationship between today's electronic technologies and cultural change, thereby formulating a comprehensive and forceful social philosophy of our technical civilization."

Dr Joseph Nechvatal, School of Visual Arts

"...provides a much needed analysis of the art-historical roots and the larger cultural and social context for understanding art in the electronic age."

Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of American Art

"Provides a strong overview of electronic media artists, as well as images from the projects. Its mix of visual documentation and clear writing about the works in suitable depth is a great aid in providing a foundation for understanding digital art. Indeed, it could be called 'the bible' of electronic art."

Mary Flanagan, Hunter College, CUNY