Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow Volume 20

by Victoria Vesna

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816641196
• ISBN13: 9780816641192
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"