Scope and Contents Synopsis review: Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalysed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated. Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and...

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Judith Hoffberg contributes a preface titled "Birds, Bones and Books." In "Joyce's New York: A conversation" Margot Lovejoy interviews Cutler-Shaw. She states that you can enjoy and read calligraphy without knowing the language and that she is "drawn to the more contemporary form of concrete poetry, in which meaning is tied to its visual representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Betty Bright. It focused on artist books designed or made with computers in whole or in part. Books in the exhibition that are also held by the Sackner Archive include Keith Smith's Bobby, Alistair Johnston's Musings on the Vernacular, Rosemary Smith's Her Story in Lace, Warren Lehrer's GRRRHHHH, and Johanna Drucker's Simulant Portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition focuses on "artists who have explored the use of computer technology to create art of aesthetic value. "A symposium on computer art was held with the exhibition, to address the humanistic issues raised by the computer's influence on art and design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.