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The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalisation

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  • Presents an in-depth exploration of how digital art can articulate globalization’s human affects
  • Describes how digital art can facilitate and generate new understandings of globalization and analyzes how digital art’s discursive function is similar to earlier art forms
  • Illustrates globalization’s impacts on digital artists and digital art practices through a close examination of a broad range of international artworks
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction: Towards New Understandings

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 1-11
  3. Digital Art and Cultural Commentary

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 13-35
  4. Globalisation and Digital Art

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 37-51
  5. Digital Art and Political Revolt

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 53-72
  6. Metropolis: Imagining The Global City

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 85-105
  7. Digital Art and Social Engagement

    • Melissa Langdon
    Pages 129-146
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 155-167

About this book

This book explores digital artists’ articulations of globalization. Digital artworks from around the world are examined in terms of how they both express and simulate globalization’s impacts through immersive, participatory and interactive technologies. The author highlights some of the problems with macro and categorical approaches to the study of globalization and presents new ways of seeing the phenomenon as a series of processes and flows that are individually experienced and expressed. Instead of providing a macro analysis of large-scale political and economic processes, the book offers imaginative new ways of knowing and understanding globalization as a series of micro affects. Digital art is explored in terms of how it re-centers articulations of globalization around individual experiences and offers new ways of accessing a complex topic often expressed in general and intangible terms. The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalization is analytic and accessible, with material that is of interest to a range of researchers from different disciplines. Students studying digital art, film, globalization, cultural studies or digital media trends will also find the content fascinating.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Notre Dame, Australia

    Melissa Langdon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalisation

  • Authors: Melissa Langdon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1270-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1269-8

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4531-3

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1270-4

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 167

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Media Design

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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