At The Edge Of Art

Description: This is the first publication to consider the expanding meaning of 'art' at the dawn of the Digital Age. Surveying a broad range of contributions from scientists, designers, code-writers, video-games authors and internet artists - disciplines beyond the conventional definition of art - the authors confront our definition of art and propose new modes of understanding and appreciating an entirely new world of art that exists principally through the internet. Table of Contents: 1. Code as Muse: new artistic possibilities opened up by computer programming; 2. Deep Play: new narrative forms and 'action' aesthetics of computer games; 3. Autobotography: the rise of webcam-based performance art; 4. Designing Politics: seemingly 'real' websites, used to subvert commercial and political enterprise; 5. Preserving Artificial Life: a new biology established via human-engineered viruses and other digital 'life-forms'; 6. Reweaving Community: the emergence of an online 'art world' whose fugitive existence resists definition. Author Biography: Joline Blais teaches cyberliterature at the University of Maine, where she co-directs the new media programme with Jon Ippolito. Ippolito is also Assistant Curator of Digital Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.