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100	1		_aKwastek, Katja.
245	1	0	_aAesthetics of interaction in digital art / _cKatja Kwastek ; foreword by Dieter Daniels ; translated by Niamh Warde.
260			_acambridge: _bMIT, _c2013
300			_axxii, 357p.: _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index.
505	0		_aInteractive art: definition and origins -- Interaction as an aesthetic experience -- The aesthetics of play -- The aesthetics of interaction in digital art -- Case studies.
520			_aSince the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike. Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art. Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork and then develops an aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her theory to specific works of interactive media art, including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive installations, and performance—with case studies of works by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby, Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory.
650		0	_aInteractive art.
650		0	_aNew media art.
650		0	_aAesthetics, Modern
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