Database Aesthetics

<div> <div> <p><i>Database Aesthetics</i> examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the digitization of daily life.</p> <p>Contributors: Sharon Daniel U of California Santa Cruz; Steve Deitz Carleton College; Lynn Hershman Leeson U of California Davis; George Legrady U of California Santa Barbara; Eduardo Kac School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Norman Klein California Institute of the Arts; John Klima; Lev Manovich U of California San Diego; Robert F. Nideffer U of California Irvine; Nancy Paterson Ontario College of Art and Design; Christiane Paul School of Visual Arts in New York; Marko Peljhan U of California Santa Barbara; Warren Sack U of California Santa Cruz; Bill Seaman Rhode Island School of Design; Grahame Weinbren School of Visual Arts New York.</p> <p>Victoria Vesna is a media artist and professor and chair of the Department of Design and Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles.</p> </div> </div>