Hi All,
I originally stopped myself posting this information on here about a
week ago, thinking it was not appropriate. But I am having second
thoughts now - so, even though it may not 'specifically' refer to
'Curation' of Media Art - it does have important crossovers.
If I am wrong please forgive my assumptions, and tell me off!
We have just sent off our first batch from various buyers via the Amazon
web site, and it feels good that there are people interested out there :-)
Wishing all well.
marc
info below................>
Publication - Artists Re: Thinking Games.
Editors Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press (31 Mar 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1846312477
ISBN-13: 978-1846312472
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1846312477
Digital games are important not only because of their cultural ubiquity
or their sales figures but for what they can offer as a space for
creative practice. Games are significant for what they embody; human
computer interface, notions of agency, sociality, visualisation,
cybernetics, representation, embodiment, activism, narrative and play.
These and a whole host of other issues are significant not only to the
game designer but also present in the work of the artist that thinks and
rethinks games. Re-appropriated for activism, activation, commentary and
critique within games and culture, artists have responded vigorously.
Over the last decade artists have taken the engines and culture of
digital games as their tools and materials. In doing so their work has
connected with hacker mentalities and a culture of critical mash-up,
recalling Situationist practices of the 1950s and 60s and challenging
and overturning expected practice.
This publication looks at how a selection of leading artists, designers
and commentators have challenged the norms and expectations of both game
and art worlds with both criticality and popular appeal. It explores
themes adopted by the artist that thinks and rethinks games and includes
essays, interviews and artists’ projects from Jeremy Bailey, Ruth
Catlow, Heather Corcoran, Daphne Dragona, Mary Flanagan, Mathius Fuchs,
Alex Galloway, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana, Anne-Marie Schleiner,
David Surman, Tale of Tales, Bill Viola, and Emma Westecott.
A collaborative publication between Furtherfield
(http://www.furtherfield.org) & FACT (http://www.fact.co.uk/)
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