Table of Contents

Introduction   PART ONE   Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience – Margot Lovejoy   Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art – Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken   Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art – Sharon Daniel   Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges – Mary Flanagan   PART TWO   Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production – Christiane Paul   Aesthetics of Information Visualization – Warren Sack   Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time – Marina Gržinić   Game Engines As Creative Frameworks – Robert F. Nideffer   Mapping the Collective – Sara Diamond   PART THREE    Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios – Victoria Vesna   Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm – Anna Munster   Working With Wetware – Ruth G. West   Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications – Ellen K. Levy   Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses – Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig

About the Author

Margot Lovejoy is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase and author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (Routledge, 2004). Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. Victoria Vesna is a media artist, and a Professor at the Department of Design/Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts.

Reviews

The essays in Context Providers are rich with observations from artists, educators, humanists, scientists, and curators who address the recent histories of digital media and the ways in which media art and culture challenge and reframe ways of constructing meaning through the creative process and people's engagement with it. They are supplemented by notes and references and, when illustrated, are annotated with captions that offer further commentary."-- "Choice" (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"With major essays written by a range of experts in this emerging field, Context Providers articulates a seminal language to previously unexplored territories. It explores ethics in the conditions of meaning in ways that are both accessible and provocative."--Lynn Hershman Leeson, University of California, Davis--Lynn Hershman Leeson, University of California, Davis