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Title: Information Arts : Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology by Stephen Wilson ISBN: 0-262-73158-4 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: lotsa cool stuff
Comment: I really liked this book. I'm interested in computer art but Information Arts shows that is just the top of the iceberg -- artists dancing in zero gravity, learning how to change the patterns on butterfly wings, reclaiming toxic waste dumps, planting chips in their body, making radioactive sculptures, breeding artificial life.... You really begin to get a glimpse of what kind of art is coming down the road.
I appreciated the systematic way the book dealt with all these topics. There are chapters on art exploring biology, particle physics, space art, mathematical art, artificial life, etc. The author seemed to work hard to find artists from all over the world coming at it from different points of view. Also each section also offers a review of relevant theory, and seemed very fair in its attempt to offer a full range of opinions.
There are two kinds of artist sections in the book - multipage sections with an image and samples of the artists' writing, and shorter sections of a few lines. I wish there were more details on the less described artists but then the book would have been bigger than its already huge 1000 pages. Also, I wish the images were color. The author provides web links for all the artists. It's a great starting point, although it could have used tighter editing (still it's great exercise equipment!).
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Reference - Fine line to Hubris....
Comment: This book is organized in two parts: theory and name-throwing. The theory parts are at times interesting, at times obscure and redundant. They precede chapters full of names, (supposedly big names) in the "information arts". To be fair, Wilson collected a huge database of names to be included in this volume and it serves a purpose. It is a good starting point for someone to look up people and their work. Not enough descriptions of what people do unfortunately. At least the names are highlighted and indexed so you can quickly go through it and pick up names. It is a name book...and a good stroke to many people's egos, including Wilson's who doesn't omit himself and the "I...once upon a time" reference to himself and his greatness. Being that there is nothing else like it out there, it is a good addition to one's reference shelf. But don't rely on it to measure greatness and don't hold your breath for super-exciting theory you haven't read before. Quite an undertaking, and with omissions which at least Wilson admits to. Give it a try. The pictures are not that great. If anything, they take away from the "mystique" of the who-is-who rather than add to it.
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Title: The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) by Lev Manovich ISBN: 0262632551 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Digital Art (World of Art) by Christiane Paul ISBN: 0500203679 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (Leonardo Books) by Oliver Grau ISBN: 0262072416 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort ISBN: 0262232278 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: New Screen Media: Cinema, Art, Narrative by Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp ISBN: 0851708641 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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