I've been really interested in a lot of your posts and what you're researching - do you have any recommended readings for an artist working with digital media?
Hi Richard @richardlapham thank you for the message! I very much appreciate your interest. I’ll recommend some of the more interesting things I’ve come across so far. If none of it is quite what you were looking for let me know and we’ll try again. :) I apologize for the abundance of academic stuff. It’s all I have time to read these days.
The Playboy Interview with Marshall McLuhan 1969 - skip down to the actual interview. McLuhan is a researcher I am very interested in because he explores the effects of media and the sensory experience of media. If you’re looking to use him for academic purposes be wary of his bad reputation among scholars.
I’d also recommend anything by Baudrillard and Lev Manovich.
How Should We Speak About Art and Technology? by Mick Wilson.
Aesthetics and Interactive Art by Karen Cham
Invisible Work: The Representation of Artistic Practice in Digital Visual Culture by Ann-Sophie Lehmann
The Aura of the Digital by Michael Betancourt
New Philosophy for New Media by Mark B.N. Hansen - Hansen is well recognized. This book is about art as data.
The Image Object Post-Internet by Artie Vierkant
I would recommend reading and listening to anything James Bridle has written or said. The New Aesthetic and Its Politics
The Curator’s New Medium by Omar Kholeif
Digital hybridization: A Technique, An Aesthetic by Edmond Couchot
Athletic Aesthetics by Brad Tromel (I would look him up too)
Mobile Networks and Public Spaces: Bring Multiuser Environments into the Physical Space by Adriana de Souza e Silva
Wireless Affections: Embodiment and Emotions in New Media/Theory and Art by Frances Dyson
Internet Art in Crisis of Transcendence: A Theology and Art in Digital Culture by S. Elwell - the specific section of this book talks about algorithms as relationship building tools
And then finally… anything by Claire Bishop on digital art. Not sure how I feel about what I’ve read from her so far, but she provides a necessary perspective. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Happy reading :)
C