Hi all,
Regarding this question:
> > >>... I'm disappointed that I have
> > >>not been able to find much useful in print or on the net regarding the
> > >>aesthetics or poetics of net movements.
Perhaps someone has already said this, and apologies for repetition if so,
but there is a major new book which very much deals with this topic:
The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich
The MIT Press: March 2001. ISBN 0-262-13374-1.
352 pp., 55 illus. $34.95/£23.95 (cloth).
For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANGHF00
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"In this book Lev Manovich places new media within the histories of visual
and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's
reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and
mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of
reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He shows how categories
and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database, work with
the more familiar conventions to make possible a new kind of aesthetic.
Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and
computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as
cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and
history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among
other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema
and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new
media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.
The book looks at most areas of new media: Web sites, virtual worlds, VR,
human-computer interfaces, computer games, computer animation, digital
video, special effects, and interactive intallations. It also contains
detailed analysis of new media works, from such commercial classics as Myst
and Jurassic Park, to the projects of new media artists and collectives
such as art+com and Jeffrey Shaw.
Most writings on new media are full of speculation about the future.
Manovich book analyses new media as it has actually developed up until this
point, at the same time pointing to directions for new media designers and
artists which have not been yet explored.
Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) is an Associate Professor in the Visual
Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Moscow,
he holds advanced degrees in cognitive psychology and visual culture. He
has been working with computer media for almost twenty years as an artist,
designer, animator, computer programmer, and teacher. His work has been
published in more than twenty countries, and he frequently lectures on new
media around the world."
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Hope this is of some assistance.
For those interested in this subject, it may be worth noting that on June 1
- 2, Tate are holding a conference entitled: 'Moving Image As Art:
Time-Based Media In The Art Gallery'. Lev and others will be speaking at
this event.
See: <http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/events.htm> for more
information.
Best wishes
Honor Harger
Webcasting Curator, Education & Interpretation
Tate Modern
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