"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
"As modes of display and mechanisms of dissemination continue to undergo rigorous renewals, novel systems supporting the consumption of aesthetic production will be forged. What we see, how we see, what we share, how we share, what we learn, how we learn – these are the critical questions whose answers will come to shape future lives. Imminent updates on web-based interactivity, interface and intercommunication will redefine the social r ..."
"This is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contributions to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology working today. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology and cultural and media studies through his own original theories and arguments ..."
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"Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice, and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked bor ..."
"Among the most talked-about names in contemporary architecture, the firm of Diller + Scofidio has for the last two decades redefined what architecture can be. Through site-specific, highly conceptual works such as the acclaimed redesign of the famed Brasserie restaurant in New York City's Seagram Building, to the "Blur" building, created for the Swiss Expo 2002 and composed entirely of mist, the firm has consistently challenged and expa ..."
"INTERACTION began 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, ..."
"VOTI was an online forum that was founded in 1998--long before such forums were common--as a digital venue for discussion among contemporary art curators, many of whom are among today's most prominent museum professionals. Among the participants were Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jordan Crandall, Okwui Enwezor, Charles Esche, Bettina Funcke, Hou Hanru, Susan Hapgood, Jens Hoffmann, Corne ..."
"This accompanying publication of the 13th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, an international biennale of contemporary photography, is lavishly illustrated with the works of 27 artists and includes essays by leading commentators on contemporary art and technology."
"In the second edition of this idea-packed reader -- first published to accompany the 2005 exhibition, ''Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality'' at BAK -- artists, curators, theorists and others speak on the urgent subject of war in the post-9/11 world. The voices of artists are still needed to make sense of the current state of global conflict, financial meltdown and ecological disasters such as the BP oil spill. This edition, ..."
""Under Fire 2" is the second collection edited by Jordan Crandall in an ongoing project that explores the organization and representation of armed conflict. Emerging from online dialogues among a group of artists, theorists, scientists, critics, activists and journalists during three months of 2004 and reorganized thematically, the discussions in "Under Fire 2" aim to offer new insights into symptomatic violence. The book covers issues ..."
"Through a series of discussions about an array of issues--battle simulation techniques and news programming, democracy and violence, the privatization of the military, and militarized bodies--Jordan Crandall explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. Moderated by Crandall, Under Fire 1 is a compilation of a series of dialogues that occurred online from January 25 through April 19, 2004 between artists, ..."
"Combining traditional film technologies and computerized military programs for tracking, identifying, and targeting, Jordan Crandall's seven-part video installation Drive depicts movement through means that go miles beyond the conventions of cinema. In Drive, as elsewhere today, bodies and physical movements are no longer objects of representation, but collated and processed computer data from thermal imaging machines and night vision o ..."
"In seinem Projekt »Trigger« beschäftigt sich Jordan Crandall mit dem, was man kurz als »militarisierte Sehen« definieren könnte, eine gewandelte Form der Wahrnehmung, ausgelöst durch den Einsatz von Überwachungskameras und anderer visueller Technologien, die zunehmend die Lebensrealität des Normalbürgers bestimmen. »›Trigger‹ ist eine Videoinstallation, die Auge, Kamera und Waffe in einer erotischen Kampfphysiologie vereinigt. Das Bildm ..."