TY  - BOOK
AU  - Larsen,Lars Bang
TI  - Networks
T2  - Documents of contemporary art
SN  - 0262525755
AV  - HM851 .N477 2014
U1  - 302.3 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, MA, London
PB  - The MIT Press, Whitechapel Gallery
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - System analysis
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Mass media and social integration
KW  - Art criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230) and index; Connectivity before and beyond the Net -- The network as a mode of being -- Exchange is the oxygen of capital -- Corruption, intrigue, and covert solidarity
N2  - "Networks is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art. The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s initiated a cultural shift from the modernist grid's determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities. Artists have used the 'space of flows' as a basis for creating utopian scenarios, absurd yet functional propositions or holistic planetary visions. Others have explored the economies of reciprocity and the ethics of generosity, in works that address changed conditions of co-dependence and new sites of social negotiation. The 'infra-power' of the network has been a departure point for self-organized counter-culture and the creation of new types of agency. And a 'poetics of connectivity' runs through a diverse range of work that addresses the social and material complexity of networks via physical structures and ambient installation, the mapping of the internet, or the development of robots and software that take on the functions of artist or curator."--Publisher's description
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