[NetBehaviour] Networked Art: Practices and Positions.

[marc]

Networked Art: Practices and Positions.

Featured on Garrett Lynch's Blog 'Network Research'.

"Finally managed to get hold of a copy of Network Art (perhaps the 
world’s most difficult to get net.art book) edited by Tom Corby (of 
Corby and Bailey and teaches Media Art at the University of Westminster) 
and gradually worked my way through it when I had a spare moment between 
classes.

The book, an outcome of research funded by the Arts & Humanities 
Research Board, takes a similar approach to Tilman Baumgärtel’s net.art 
2.0 (and there is a text by Baumgärtel entitled The ludic hack: artistic 
explorations of computer games) in that it gives an overview of the 
practice of a selection of artists working with networks (principally 
the internet), their art, themes and method of working. It shouldn’t be 
compared with net.art 2.0 however as it does this differently. It takes 
a less historic overview of net.art, is more concerned with current 
practice than origins or development of the genre and this is executed 
in a number of ways, interviews, writings about art work, ideas and 
themes (net.art 2.0 is entirely interviews with the artists conducted by 
Baumgärtel).

The book is broken down into two sections, Contexts and Practices. 
Contexts, the first section, prepares the reader for some of the art 
discussed in Practices and contains writings by some of the most 
important theorists currently writing, curating and teaching about 
net.art and new media theory. Charlie Gere, Reader in New Media Research 
and Director of Research at Lancaster University, author of Digital 
Culture and Art, Time and Technology introduces the reader to The 
history of networked art, Sarah Cook who works at the University of 
Sunderland and has jointly set up Crumb, a new media curatorial 
reseource (also funded by the AHRB), with Beryl Graham writes about 
Context-specific curating on the web while Baumgärtel has a chapter 
which is already mentioned above."

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