Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the politica
As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art--butdifferent. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often aboutprocess rather than objects
"After reading Laura Marks's lucid Enfoldment and Infinity, which leads us through the deep time layers of Arabic-Islamic arts and sciences, we have to give up our established concepts of media histor
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to transform their own lives and labor. Is there a way
For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global,networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures andsocial groups. Conducti
Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferating representations of the fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences, at a time when such basic concepts as scientifi
The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn.
New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented a new sensibility, rejecting both Abstract Expressionism
A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adoptthe vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities.Indeed, proposes St
From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of gl
An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of v
The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introducestelepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influentialtechnologies, the telescop
