Week 3 - BOOKS!!! Oh boy!! Learning!

Following my decision to study the digital aesthetics quote, I took out a few relevant books from LCA's extensive library. This post is a bit of a mishmash of quotes that I find useful or interesting. Let's go.


Rachel Greene - Internet Art - THAMES & HUDSON - London - 2004 (note: i really like this book, i should renew it)

• Internet art has also been critiqued for a perceived elitism, a reclusive position within the world and concerns of cyberspace. [Page 13]
• Internet and software artists, often self-identified as programmers, are not "real" artists. [Page 13]
• Many net artists feel a strong connection to the work of French artist Marchel Duchamp and to the participants in Dada, all of whom helped to shift art practices away from traditional forms of pictorial representation. [Page 19/20]
• Unique economies of attention exist, in which international web traffic and email forwards and downloads are the indexes of the public consumption and success of the art, as opposed to conventional means of valuation, such as visits to a museum show, magazine reviews of monetary worth. [Page 31]
• The grand spectacles these artists created as experiments were unable to reconcile the tensions between the aesthetic and commercial, but they isolated some of the net's more desirable and glamorous possibilities. [Page 67