Interaction

by Scholder, Amy; Crandall, Jordan; Johnson, John S.

• ISBN13: 9781891024245
• ISBN10: 1891024248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

INTERACTIONbegan as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the latter's implications for artistic practices--the participants in this forum illustrate how the impassioned debates taking place on the Net can help forge new kinds of communities, discourses, and intimate connections across this most transitory of landscapes. This volume presents new essays and commissioned visual projects that elaborate on the crucial ideas raised in the forum--the new kinds of cultural identifications facilitated by the Internet; the relationship between art and activism; the poetics of online communication; the relevance of the museum in a digital world; and the complex relationships between bodies, information systems, and urban realities. What emerges is an unequivocal assertion of the continuing relevance of art in this era of increasing corporate colonization of the Web, changing critical strategies, and new questions of public and private space. Contributors to INTERACTIONinclude Robert Atkins, Carlos Basualdo, Critical Art Ensemble, Coco Fusco, N. Katherine Hayles, Martin Jay, Knowbotic Research, Lev Manovich, Margaret Morse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Saskia Sassen, Yukiko Shikata, and Gregory Ulmer.

Table of Contents

Foreword	i
John S. Johnson
Introduction	1	(4)
Jordan Crandall
Archive and Experience: Imagining the <eyebeam<>blast> Forum Brian Holmes	5	(10)
Embodiment: Human-Machine Connection	15	(20)
ARTIST PROJECTS
Ken Goldberg	31	(4)
Networks: Bodies, Symbols, Cities	35	(14)
Ursula Biemann	43	(6)
Identity: Where is Global?	49	(20)
Ricardo Basbaum	63	(6)
Institutions: Architectures of Attention	69	(16)
Jodi.ORG	81	(4)
Language: The Tyranny of Theory	85	(10)
Brancha Lichtenberg-Ettinger	91	(4)
Disappearance: Art on Life Support	95	(8)
Critical Art Ensemble	99	(4)
Politics: Power in Cyberspace	103	(20)
Knowbotic Research	115	(8)
ALIEN INTERCOURSE: The Poetics of a Listserve Conversation	123	(14)
Margaret Morse
Keller Easterling	133	(4)
POSTCARDS FROM THE SOUTH: At the Margins of Globalization	137	(16)
Carlos Basualdo
Eve Andree Laramee	143	(10)
Contributor Notes	153