Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vesna, Victoria, 1959-

Description

xx, 305 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Electronic mediations ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Electronic mediations ; v. 20.

Subject

• Arts > Data processing
• Database design
• Information behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Seeing the world in a grain of sand : the database aesthetics of everything / Victoria Vesna -- 2. Database as symbolic form / Lev Manovich -- 3. Ocean, database, recut / Grahame Weinbren -- 4. Waiting for the world to explode : how data convert into a novel / Norman M. Klein -- 5. The database as system and cultural form : anatomies of cultural narratives / Christiane Paul -- 6. The database imaginary : MemoryA̲rchiveD̲atabase v 4.0 / Steve Deitz -- 7. Recombinant poetics and related database aesthetics / Bill Seaman -- 8. The database : an aesthetics of dignity / Sharon Daniel -- 9. Network aesthetics / Warren Sack -- 10. Game engines as embedded systems / Robert F. Nideffer -- 11. Stock market skirt : the evolution of the Internet, the interface, and an idea / Nancy Paterson -- 12. Pockets full of memories / George Legrady -- 13. The raw data diet, all-consuming bodies, and the shape of things to come / Lynn Hershman-Leeson -- 14. Time capsule : networking the biological [biotech and trauma] / Eduardo Kac -- 15. Aesthetics of ecosystm / John Klima -- 16. Polar / Marko Peljhan.

ISBN

• 9780816641185 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0816641188 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780816641192 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0816641196 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007008226

OCLC

• OCM85766116
• SCSB-5364334

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries