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Up-to-date account of media art issues in the early 21st century

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Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.

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Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies. Contributors: Hava Aldouby (The Open University of Israel), Grant Bollmer (North Carolina State University / University of Sydney), Andrea Pinotti (University of Milan), Daniel H. Landau (Aalto University / Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), Wendy Jo Coones (Danube University Krems), Paul Sermon (University of Brighton), Ryszard Kluszczynski (University of Lodz), Derek Curry (Northeastern University, Boston), Jennifer Gradecki (SUNY Buffalo / Northeastern University, Boston), Tsila Hassine (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design / Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne), Ziv Neeman (independent scholar), Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica, Linz), Aaron Burton (University of Wollongong), Yvonne Volkart (Academy of Art and Design, FHNW Basel), Jens Hauser (IKK & Medical Museion, Copenhagen University), Adam Brown (Michigan State University), Jonas Jørgensen (IT University of Copenhagen), Olga Kisseleva (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Biografie

Hava Aldouby is senior lecturer in Art History at the Open University of Israel, Department of Language, Literature, and the Arts, and artistic director of the Open University Gallery.

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Introduction: Shift ing Interfaces Hava Aldouby I Immersion, Empathy, and Presence: Manipulating the Boundaries of Self and Body From Immersion to Empathy: The Legacy of Einfühlung in Virtual Reality and Digital Art Grant Bollmer Avatars: Shi fting Identities in a Genealogical Perspective Andrea Pinotti Meeting Yourself in Virtual Reality: A Performative Experiment in Self-Compassion Daniel Landau Art and Presence: Investigating Embodiment in a Virtual Art Gallery Hava Aldouby Shared Objective Empathy in Telematic Space Paul Sermon Elaborating Mediation Through Media Arts Wendy Coones II Subjects of Surveillance: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Big Data Universe Qualculative Poetics: An Artistic Critique of Rational Judgment Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki Google, Shmoogle: A Critical Twist on Search Engine Ideology Ziv Neeman and Tsila Hassine Sculpting Time: The Art of Collective Memory Ryszard W. Kluszczynski The Logic of Participation in Digital Art and Network Culture Manuela Naveau Aesthetic Strategies in the Wasteocene Yvonne Volkart III Bacteria and Smart Objects: Presences Beyond the Human Rehabilitating Bacteria: An Epistemological Art/Science Interface Jens Hauser Exceptional Matters Adam W. Brown From So Sculpture to So Robotics: Retracing Entropic Aesthetics of the Life-like Jonas Jørgensen Natures Mortes, Live Data: The Art Object in the IoT Era Tsila Hassine, Olga Kisseleva Unmanned Imaging of the Anthropocene Aaron Burton List of Contributors Index Color Plates

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