{"product_id":"digital-art-and-meaning-reading-kinetic-poetry-text-machines-mapping-art-and-interactive-installations-paperback-softback-9780816667383","title":"Digital Art and Meaning; Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816667383","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDigital Art and Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoberto Simanowski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816667383\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 May 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.402 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Against an aesthetic thought that privileges erotics over hermeneutics and performative presence over meaning, Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in critical detail how the web has not spelt the end of interpretation, but has complicated it. Mobilizing the history and theory of the avant-garde from Apollinaire and Dada to situationsim and aleatoric poetry, he analyzes salient examples of digital art and literature, engaging with the ways in which code and programming, hypertext, collaborative writing, and interactive installations challenge notions of authorship and audience, reading and writing. A major work on the aesthetics of the digital media by a superb close reader who cuts across literary and media studies and opens up new dimensions for the humanities. A must read for programmers and humanists, engineers and artists alike.\" -Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a tightly interlocked set of readings of representative works ranging from concrete poetry to interactive installations, Roberto Simanowski makes a compelling case for a re-fashioned semiotic analysis that attends to the meaning produced by the formal intricacies of the work itself as well as by external processes of production and reception. In Simanowski, digital art finds the thoughtful, incisive, and erudite reader it truly deserves.\" -Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Art and Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art such as kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installation, mapping art, and information sculpture. For instance, Simanowski deciphers the complex meaning of words that not only form an image on a screen but also react to the viewer’s behavior; images that are progressively destroyed by the human gaze; text machines generating nonsense sentences out of a Kafka story; and a light show above Mexico City’s historic square, created by Internet users all over the world. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSimanowski combines these illuminating explanations with a theoretical discussion that employs art philosophy and history to achieve a deeper understanding of each particular example of digital art and, ultimately, of the genre as a whole.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface: Against the Embrace \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Close Reading \u003cbr\u003e 1. Digital Literature \u003cbr\u003e 2. Kinetic Concrete Poetry \u003cbr\u003e 3. Text Machines \u003cbr\u003e 4. Interactive Installations \u003cbr\u003e 5. Mapping Art \u003cbr\u003e 6. Real-Time Web Sculpture \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Code, Interpretation, Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656089661720,"sku":"9780816667383","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/digital-art-and-meaning-reading-kinetic-poetry-text-machines-mapping-art-and-interactive-installations-paperback-softback-9780816667383","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}