Across and beyond : a transmediale reader on post-digital practices, concepts and institutions
- Submitting institution
-
University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 22293535
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press and Transmediale e.V.
- ISBN
- 978-3-95679-289-2
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
3
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- "Across & Beyond: A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions" is a co-edited research collection that addresses the contemporary discourse of post-digitality. Emerging from the multi-year collaboration between transmediale art and culture organisation (artistic director Kristoffer Gansing and Elvia Wilk from the curatorial team) and Winchester School of Art (Bishop and Parikka), the book gathers together a group of internationally leading theorists of digital culture, art, and architecture as well as artists who have contributed to the transmediale festival. Contributors include, among others, Benjamin Bratton, Keller Easterling, Cornelia Sollfrank, Tiziana Terranova, Florian Cramer, Olga Goriunova, Moreshin Allahyari, Ryan Bishop (WSA) and Alessandro Ludovico (WSA). The book builds on the curatorial focus of the festival and emerges as an independent research contribution that addresses thematically “imaginaries, “interventions” and “ecologies”: these were also key themes informing the 2017 festival in Berlin, a year that marked the festival’s 30th anniversary. The three concepts reflect key focus of past years’ of media and art theory in relation to questions of politics and materiality of post-digital culture and aesthetics and Parikka’s chapter contributed to the broader question of imaginaries of infrastructures of creativity such as the “media lab” discourse. Providing a cross-disciplinary platform for discussions in media and art was one of the innovative aspects of the book and chapter. The research for the book was both informed by the transmediale and WSA collaboration while also then feeding back into the festival and its academic conference, which both have over the years become central sites of exchange between critical media practices and media theory including societal discussions (surveillance, politics of networks and data culture, etc.) and aesthetic practices (such as glitch, media archaeology, hacker practices and artistic methods). Parikka’s contributions to the book were subsequently published Open Access via transmediale online.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -