The engagement aesthetic : experiencing new media art through critique /
by Francisco J. Ricardo.
- vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- International texts in critical media aesthetics ; volume 4 .
- International texts in critical media aesthetics ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The engagement aesthetic: an introduction -- Engagement as subjective system in electronic art -- Transmodal engagement: multiple media in singular works -- Engagement as media metonymy: the aural as visual -- Projective engagement: transcending the modernist grid -- Engagement from objecthood to processhood -- Engagement in virtual and actual gallery space -- Non-local engagement: the aura of the distributed moment -- Engagement as spatial chronotope: electronic art and the public sphere -- Engagement across space and structure in post-architecture -- Performative engagement: dance with projective images -- Engagement as performed intimacy: depicting part-object desire, visually -- Engagement as post-literary mechanism, an historical argument -- Engagement as post-literary mechanism, from exposition to reflexivity -- Engagement as comparative communication: formalisms of digital text -- Engagement across shifting beliefs: Shamanism, Turing, and ELIZA.