This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding our relationship with technology.
Introduction: Art at the Interface; Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Interface; Chapter 2: The Embodied Interface; Chapter 3; Chapter 4: The Cybernetic Interface; Chapter 5: The Ubiquitous Interface I; Chapter 6: The Ubiquitous Interface II; Chapter 7: The Implanted Interface; Conclusion
Phaedra Shanbaum is Lecturer in Digital Arts and Media Education at UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.