At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet

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Annmarie Chandler Norie Neumark (Professor of Media Studies, University of Melbourne)

At a Distance

Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet

Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark (Professor of Media Studies, University of Melbourne), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST) , Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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MIT Press
08 September 2006

The Arts: General & Reference; Internet guides & online services

Series: Leonardo

The theory and practice of networked art and activism, including mail art, sound art, telematic art, fax art, Fluxus, and assemblings.

Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance-geographical, temporal, or emotional-theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work-showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns-At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the ""art object,"" combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art ""re-viewing"" their work-including experiments in ""mini-FM,"" telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.

Edited by: Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark (Professor of Media Studies, University of Melbourne)
Series edited by: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 953g
ISBN: 9780262532853
ISBN 10: 0262532859
Series: Leonardo
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 08 September 2006
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Annmarie Chandler is Director of Emerging Field in New Media and Digital Culture at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Norie Neumark, a sound and media artist, is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She coedited At a Distance- Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet and VOICE- Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, both published by the MIT Press.

Reviews for At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet

""The book is an exhilarating, eye-opening read that restores the body to the virtual and pulls the virtual out of the digital and back into lived and produced social relations.""--Patricia R. Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College ""The book is an exhilarating, eye-opening read that restores the body to the virtual and pulls the virtual out of the digital and back into lived and produced social relations."" Patricia R. Zimmermann , Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College