Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, Berkeley, Date: 2003. 427 pages. Illustrated. Couple of small smudges along page ends.. 1st Priinting. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Computer Art and Technology . 2003. University of California, Berkeley ISBN 0520218035 9780520218031 [US]

ISBN10: 0520218035, ISBN13: 9780520218031, [publisher: -University of California Press -] Hardcover First edition first impression 2003. xii+427 pages. Illustrated. Cloth with some staining to head-edge. Page edges a little grubby. Good in dustjacket with edge-wear, closed tears and the odd dent. Hence the very reasonable price. Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term 'telematic art' to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In "Telematic Embrace" Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compilation of more than three decades of Ascott's philosophies on aesthetics, interactivity, and the sense of self and community in the telematic world of cyberspace. This book explores Ascott's ideas on how networked communication has shaped behavior and consciousness within and beyond the realm of what is conventionally defined as art. Telematics, a powerful marriage of computers and telecommunication, made technologies we now take for granted - such as e-mail and automated teller machines (ATMs) - part of our daily life, and made art a more interactive form of expression. Telematic art challenges traditional relationships between artist, artwork, and audience by allowing nonlocal audiences to influence the emergent qualities of the artwork, which consists of the ebb and flow of electronic information. These essays ...
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-University of California Press (2003)- 2003 Hard cover First edition first impression 2003. xii+427 pages. Illustrated. Cloth with some staining to head-edge. Page edges a little grubby. Good in dustjacket with edge-wear, closed tears and the odd dent. Hence the very reasonable price. Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term 'telematic art' to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In "Telematic Embrace" Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compilation of more than three decades of Ascott's philosophies on aesthetics, interactivity, and the sense of self and community in the telematic world of cyberspace. This book explores Ascott's ideas on how networked communication has shaped behavior and consciousness within and beyond the realm of what is conventionally defined as art. Telematics, a powerful marriage of computers and telecommunication, made technologies we now take for granted-such as e-mail and automated teller machines (ATMs)-part of our daily life, and made art a more interactive form of expression. Telematic art challenges traditional relationships between artist, artwork, and audience by allowing nonlocal audiences to influence the emergent qualities of the artwork, which consists of the ebb and flow of electronic information. These essays constitute a unique archaeology of ideas, tracing Ascott's meditations on the formation ...

ISBN10: 0520218035, ISBN13: 9780520218031, [publisher: University of California Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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