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Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and
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Paperback, 336 pages
Published
August 22nd 2007
by Univ Of Minnesota Press
(first published January 1st 2007)
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I read this book for graduate school. Well, I read about half of this book we were assigned sections to read. I did not enjoy reading this book though I found it intriguing. There is a lot of information in it about data manipulation and the intersection of art and technology. Also covered, but not deeply, is how data is stored, retrieved and the ideas behind how we perceive the visual representation of that data.
I would in no way describe this book as reading for pleasure nor would I recommend ...more
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Database Aesthetics is obviously for a very niche readership. This project grew out of a 1999 special issue of AI & Society.While I found a lot of the essays useful, they are pretty outdated. Even though DA was published in 2007, there's a large gap about big data/data visualization that would've been a welcomed inclusion in this compilation. I really wanted to find some new ideas, but there wasn't much. There were, however, some pretty interesting exhibits/installations used as examples--if
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You'd have to really love database aesthetics - and I do, but I'm not sure you will...
Aug 31, 2011
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