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008 130626s2014 nyua 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780415500586 (hbk)
020 $a9780415500593 (pbk)
020 $z9781315879796 (ebk)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNX456.5.N49$bS39 2014
082 00 $a776$223
084 $aART008000$aART009000$aART046000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSchwarz, David,$d1952-
245 13 $aAn introduction to electronic art through the teaching of Jacques Lacan :$bstrangest thing /$cDavid Bard-Schwarz.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 182 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Works can be interactive or entirely autonomous and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be challenged by constantly transforming images. Whether the transformations are a product of the appearances or actions of a viewer in an installation space, or a product of a self-contained computer program, is a source of constant fascination. Some viewers may feel strange or unnerved by a work, while others may feel welcoming, humorous, and playful emotions. The art may also provoke a critical response to social, aesthetic, and political aspects of early twenty-first century life. This book approaches electronic art through the teachings of Jacques Lacan, whose return to Freud has exerted a powerful and wide-ranging influence on psychoanalysis and critical theory in the twentieth century.David Schwarz draws on his experience with Lacanian psychoanalysis, music, interactive and traditional arts in order to address aspects of the works the viewer may find difficult to understand. Dividing his approach over four thematic chapters - Bodies, Voices, Eyes and Signifiers -- Schwarz explores the links between works of New Media and psychoanalysis (how we process what we see, hear, touch, imagine, and remember). This is a fascinating book for New Media artists and critics, museum curators, psychologists, students in the fine arts and those who are interested in digital technology and contemporary culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be challenged by constantly transforming images. Whether the transformations are a product of the appearances or actions of a viewer in an installation space, or a product of a self-contained computer program, is a source of constant fascination. Some viewers may feel strange or unnerved by a work, while others may feel welcoming, humorous, and playful emotions. The art may also provoke a critical response to social, aesthetic, and political aspects of early twenty-first century life. This book approaches electronic art through the teachings of Jacques Lacan, whose return to Freud has exerted a powerful and wide-ranging influence on psychoanalysis and critical theory in the twentieth century. David Schwarz draws on his experience with Lacanian psychoanalysis, music, interactive and traditional arts in order to address aspects of the works the viewer may find difficult to understand. Dividing his approach over four thematic chapters - Bodies, Voices, Eyes and Signifiers - Schwarz explores the links between works of New Media and psychoanalysis (how we process what we see, hear, touch, imagine and remember). This is a fascinating book for New Media artists and critics, museum curators, psychologists, students in the fine arts and those who are interested in digital technology and contemporary culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aNew media art.
650 0 $aPsychoanalysis and art.
600 10 $aLacan, Jacques,$d1901-1981.
650 7 $aART / Conceptual.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Criticism & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Digital.$2bisacsh