Digital Art

by Christiane Paul

Overview

"The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art's most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. Digital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the 'digital revolution' into the social media era and to the postdigital and post-Internet landscape. This new, expanded edition of this invaluable overview of the medium traces the emergence of artificial intelligence, augmented and mixed realities, and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and surveys themes explored by digital artworks in the areas of activism, networks and telepresence, and ecological art and the Anthropocene. Christiane Paul considers all forms of digital art, focusing on the basic characteristics of their aesthetic language and their technological and art-historical evolution. By looking at the ways in which internet art, digital installation, software art, AR and VR have emerged as recognized artistic practices, Digital Art is an essential critical guide"--Publisher's description.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500204801
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	05/09/2023
Series:	World of Art
Edition description:	Fourth
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christiane Paul is the curator of digital art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and emeritus professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School, New York. She has curated numerous exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and internationally, written extensively on digital art, and lectured around the world on art and technology.

Editorial Reviews

A terrific summary of the intertwined history of art and technology.

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