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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778270903321

Titolo

Database aesthetics : art in the age of information overflow / / Victoria Vesna, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007

ISBN

0-8166-5409-3

Edizione

[8th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 305 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Electronic mediations

Altri autori (Persone)

BulajićViktorija Vesna

Disciplina

776

Soggetti

Arts - Data processing

Database design

Information behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Seeing the world in a grain of sand : the database aesthetics of everything / Victoria Vesna -- Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich -- Ocean, database, recut / Grahame Weinbren -- Waiting for the world to explode : how data converts into a novel /  Norman M. Klein -- The database as system and cultural form : anatomies of cultural narratives / Christiane Paul -- The database imaginary : Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0 / Steve Dietz -- Recombinant poetics and related database aesthetics /  Bill Seaman -- The database : an aesthetics of dignity / Sharon Daniel -- Network aesthetics / Warren Sack -- Game engines as embedded systems / Robert F. Nideffer -- Stock market skirt : the evolution of the Internet, the interface, and an idea / Nancy Paterson -- Pockets full of memories / George Legrady -- The raw data diet, all-consuming bodies, and the shape of things to come / Lynn Hershman-Leeson -- Time capsule : networking the biological [biotech and trauma] / Eduardo Kac -- Aesthetics of ecosystm / John Klima -- Polar / Marko Peljhan.

Sommario/riassunto

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art.