Network Art Practices and Positions [Hardcover]

Network Artbrings an international group of leading theorists and artists together to investigate how the internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, has been used by artists to develop artwork.

Covering a period from the mid 1990s to the present day, this fascinating text includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere, Josephine Bosma, Tilman Buarmgartel and Sarah Cook, alongside descriptions of important projects by Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 0100101110101101.org amongst many others.

Fully illustrated throughout, and including many pictures of artworks never before seen in print, Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artist's writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians. In doing so it takes a unique approach, offering the first comprehensive attempt to understand network art practice, rooted in concrete descriptions of the systems and the process required to create it.

Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgments  Part 1: Contexts  Chapter 1. Introduction Tom Corby  Chapter 2. The History of Network Art Charlie Gere  Chapter 3. Art as Experience: Meet the Active Audience  Josephine Bosma  Chapter 4. Context Specific Curating on the Web (CSCW?)  Sarah Cook  Chapter 5. The Ludic Hack: Artistic Explorations of Computer Games  Tilman Baumg?rtel  Part 2: Practices  Chapter 6. Grave Digging and Net Art: A Proposal for the Future  Natalie Bookchin  Chapter 7. Inquires in Infomics  Lisa Jevbratt  Chapter 8. Softer Side of Art  Maciej Wisniewski  Chapter 9. System Poetics anlº