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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816941603321

Autore

Simanowski Roberto

Titolo

Digital art and meaning : reading kinetic poetry, text machines, mapping art, and interactive installations / / Roberto Simanowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4678-7

0-8166-7676-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; v. 35

Disciplina

776

Soggetti

Computer art

Interactive art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : close reading -- Digital literature -- Kinetic concrete poetry -- Text machines -- Interactive installations -- Mapping art -- Real-time Web sculpture -- Epilogue : code, interpretation, avant-garde.

Sommario/riassunto

In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such critical work can be done. ""Digital Art and Meaning"" offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art such as kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installatio