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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Dworkin selects and critiques in detail several high spots of Illegible Texts to support the title of this book, e.g., text over text, cancelled texts, neologisms. These include Guy Debord's 'Fin de Copenhague' & 'Memoires,' Susan Howe's poetic works, Charles Bernstein's 'Veils,' of which five originals are held by the Sackner Archive, Rosemary 'Waldrop's 'Camp Printing,' John Cage's mesostics, Ezra Pound's 'Cantos,' Tom Phillips' 'A Humument,' Ronald Johnson's 'Radi Os,' Ken Campbell's 'Father's Garden,' and Fraenkel's version of Mallarme's 'Coup de Des' (held by the Sackner Archive). The book is accompanied by a large section of notes to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.