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At the Edge of Art Hardcover – 13 March 2006

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Desktop computer technology and the Internet have opened up new possibilities for artistic creation, distribution, and appreciation. But in addition to projects that might conventionally be described as new-media art, there is now a wide spectrum of work--unclassified until this book--by practitioners not normally thought of as artists. Engineers, software programmers, biologists, and architects, among others, are producing work on the Internet that can only be described as art. Or can it?

As rapid technological and scientific advances raise new cultural, ethical, and moral issues, while the white walls of the conventional museum or gallery seem to be straitjacketing cultural development, Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito confront our definition of art. The book explores six strands of creation: Code as Muse: new artistic possibilities opened up by computer programming; Deep Play: new narrative forms and aesthetics of computer games; Autobotography: the rise of Webcam-based performance art; Designing Politics: seemingly real Web sites, used to subvert commercial and political enterprise;Preserving Artificial Life: a new biology established via human-engineered viruses and other digital life-forms; and Reweaving Community: the emergence of an online art world whose fugitive existence resists definition.

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Publisher : Thames & Hudson (13 March 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0500238227
ISBN-13 : 978-0500238226
Dimensions : 21.08 x 3.05 x 23.11 cm

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Joline Blais teaches digital narrative and indigenous media at the University of Maine, where she co-directs the Still Water program with fellow New Media professor Jon Ippolito.

Jon Ippolito is a former Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, where he curated the first museum exhibition of virtual reality and founded the Variable Media Network for preserving digital culture.

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Brilliant book - well acked and quickly delivered - what more oculd I want?

Interesting, comprehensive look at "new media" and its place in the art world

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I ordered this book because it was assigned to me for an experimental university class, History of Alternative Media. It was definitely helpful to the latter half of the class, which covered artists working in new technological mediums as diverse computer programming and human biochemical material. I don't think I've seen another book that covers what place "new-media" art might have in as much detail. If you're interested in contemporary digital art, the Internet and its relationship to the established white gallery spaces of the "Art World" this book will be helpful to you.

In terms of the book design, the pages are printed in interesting colors and in contemporary fonts to reflect the "modern/edgy" aesthetic of the book topic. Keeping in mind that this book is from 2006, it already looks a little bit dated. In addition, the publishing date means that the content doesn't address newer popular media like 3D printing, but the artistic shift it's addressing is more present than ever.

This serious, academic book was helpful to me as an art student because it presents these unconventional creations and weighs the implications of what its place is (if it has any) in the world of art without making any solid value judgement about it.

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Reviewed in the United States on 5 April 2007

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Worthy of its name, At The Edge of Art does its share of risk-taking. It is a serious offering that fills a void in the theory and contemporary history of digital, networked practices and approaches. Simply put, this book is intellectual. It is ethical in its approach, communicating an obvious care and concern about there being a space for vital cultural works and workers who "hack" at the accelerating technological spectacle. (I have ordered the book as the required text for my digital theory and practice classes.)

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