Retracing Political Dimensions
Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art
Oliver Grau, Inge Hinterwaldner
- 265 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Retracing Political Dimensions
Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art
Oliver Grau, Inge Hinterwaldner
About This Book
At the beginning of the 21st century, new forms and dynamics of interplay are constituted at the interfaces of media, art and politics. Current challenges in society and ecology, like climate, surveillance, virtualization of the global financial markets, are characterized by hybrid and subtle technologies. They are ubiquitous, turn out to be increasingly complex and act invasively. New media art utilizes its broad range of expression in order to tackle the most urgent topics through multi-sensorial, participatory, and activist approaches. This volume shows how media artists address, with a political lens, the core of these developments critically and productively.
With contributions by Elisa Arca, AndrĂ©s Burbano, Derek Curry, Yael Eylat Van Essen, Mathias Fuchs, Jennifer Gradecki, Sabine Himmelsbach, Ingrid Hoelzl, Katja Kwastek, JosĂ©-Carlos MariĂĄtegui, Gerald Nestler, Randall Packer, Viola RĂŒhse, Chris Salter.