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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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The cover of the catalog reproduces "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" by El Lisssitzky. A version of this poster is held by the Sackner Archive. Other works listed which are held by the Archive include "The Isms of Art," "For the Voice," "Wendingen," "Cannibale," Chernikhov's "Ornament," Iliazd's "Easter Island," and "Proverbe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.