Information : Documents of Contemporary Art
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 19944583
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISBN
- 0262529343
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- INFORMATION is a publication edited by Sarah Cook as part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s long-running Documents of Contemporary Art series (2016). It is the first art historical reassessment of art from 1960s Conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. Through the careful sourcing and ordering of texts Cook, a leading scholar in the field of curating new media art, puts forward a persuasive argument that information is not the thing, but rather the process of its manifestation.
Cook’s research and editorial role included gathering a range of essays and interviews from diverse historical and geographical sources and organising them around five thematic chapters to critically build a multiple voiced consideration of the subject. INFORMATION brings together key examples of how artists from the 1960s questioned the scientific distinction between information, as signals and data, to explore its materiality (information as matter), embodiment (informational milieu), and different modalities. Through Cook’s curatorial arrangement of historical texts, the book provides a new insight into how information technologies are embodied, have political agency and have informed cultural practice.
This book is the fastest selling volume of the Whitechapel series. It has reached a wide international readership through being accessible in over 300 educational libraries worldwide. It was promoted internationally through book launches at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (hosted by The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, University of King’s College, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and St. Mary’s University), and the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Cook has also presented nationally and internationally on the publication, including ‘Can You See Me Now?’, Philosophy Matters Forum, University of Kent (2017), ‘A Brief Curatorial History of Digital and Media Art’, International Artists Programme, Helsinki (2017), and as part of ‘Cognitive Sensations’, FACT, Liverpool (2019).
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- Non-English
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