The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 38015106
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 978-1-138-60587-9
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This long form output represents a complex piece of research undertaken over a number of years. Shanbaum articulates and evidences the digital interface through seven chapters, each titled as a new type of interface; The Aesthetic Interface, the Embodied Interface and so on, and is therefore multi-layered in its scope.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This book is concerned with the digital interface, its multiple uses in interactive new media installations, and its theoretical disappearance from them. It focuses on the theoretical disappearance of the object-based digital interface, its re-emergence as human body and issues related to power, control and ownership that follow it.
Drawing on a posthumanist feminist methodology it examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface, and how they are defined and used in fine arts environments, exploring what artistic experimentation with digital interfaces might reveal about the relationship between humans and technology. The main argument of the book is that defining the digital interface as an instrument that acts and reacts to human input is inadequate. The digital interface is a necessary and important condition of everyday life, in that it forms, informs and structures our relationship with technology. Thus, the interface matters. Therefore, the contribution of this research is to provide a critical investigation into the aesthetic aspects of the device in digital artworks that can help us understand and possibly reconfigure our relationship with technology.
The publication of this book lead to an invitation to speak at the Art (I)Relevance symposium at the Barbican Center in 2019 as well as my appointment as co-editor of the peer reviewed journal, Visual Resources.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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