Context providers : conditions of meaning in media arts / edited by Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, and Victoria Vesna. - Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2011. - 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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.

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Mass media and the arts.
Popular culture.
Art and technology.

700.105 / CON 2011