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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: Digital Art and Meaning/Cybermind (fwd)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:43:31 From: Stella Fundingsland <mktgtwo@umn.edu> To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: Digital Art and Meaning/Cybermind Dear Alan, Please post this to Cybermind. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu _____________________________________________________ How to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice DIGITAL ART AND MEANING: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations By Roberto Simanowski University of Minnesota Press | 312 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-6738-3 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-6737-6 | hardcover | $75.00 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 35 Digital Art and Meaning offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art, including kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installation, mapping art, and information sculpture. Roberto Simanowski combines these illuminating explanations with a theoretical discussion employing art philosophy and history to achieve a deeper understanding of each example of digital art and of the genre as a whole. PRAISE FOR DIGITAL ART AND MEANING: "Against an aesthetic thought that privileges erotics over hermeneutics and performative presence over meaning, Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in critical detail how the web has not spelt the end of interpretation, but has complicated it. Mobilizing the history and theory of the avant-garde from Apollinaire and Dada to situationsim and aleatoric poetry, he analyzes salient examples of digital art and literature, engaging with the ways in which code and programming, hypertext, collaborative writing, and interactive installations challenge notions of authorship and audience, reading and writing. A major work on the aesthetics of the digital media by a superb close reader who cuts across literary and media studies and opens up new dimensions for the humanities. A must read for programmers and humanists, engineers and artists alike."? Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University "In a tightly interlocked set of readings of representative works ranging from concrete poetry to interactive installations, Roberto Simanowski makes a compelling case for a re-fashioned semiotic analysis that attends to the meaning produced by the formal intricacies of the work itself as well as by external processes of production and reception. In Simanowski, digital art finds the thoughtful, incisive, and erudite reader it truly deserves."? Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roberto Simanowski is professor of media studies at the University of Basel of Sydney. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/simanowski_digital.html To learn more about the Electronic Mediations Series, check out the following link: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 ________________ Stella Fundingsland Marketing Assistant University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 www.upress.umn.edu 612.627.1933