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At a distance :precursors to art and activism on the Internet

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Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work -- showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns -- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work -- including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 2005.

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1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations.

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English

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9780262270144

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computer

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online resource

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Art, Modern
Art and telecommunication.
Art and society.

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edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark.

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dianna Puji

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https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4387/At-a-DistancePrecursors-to-Art-and-Activism-on-the

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