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Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art by Aspect Magazine Our mission is to distribute and archive works of time-based art. Each issue highlights artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound.
Call Number: VT 2817 cat. 24 DVD , 18 vols.

Recommended Books on New Media

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today by Eva Respini
Call Number: NX180.I57 A77 2018
Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century by Lauren Cornell; Ed Halter Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.
Call Number: NX180.I57 M275 2015
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art by Katja Kwastek Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art.
Call Number: N6494.I57 K89 2013
The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space.
Call Number: P96.T42 M35 2001
New Media Art by Reena Jana; Mark Tribe Focusing on New Media art as a specific art historical movement, this book explores its technologies, thematic content and conceptual strategies. New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain.
Call Number: N7433.8 .T75 2009
Art and the Internet by Phoebe Stubbs (Editor); Joanne McNeil; Domenico Quaranta; Nick Lambert (Contribution by) Art and the Internet examines the legacy of the internet on art, and, importantly, illuminates how artists and institutions are using it and why.
Call Number: N7433.8 .A75 2013
Internet Art by Rachel Greene When the Internet emerged as a mass global communication network in the mid-1990s, artists immediately recognized the exciting possibilities for creative innovation that came with it. After a century of unprecedented artistic experimentation, individuals and groups were quick to use the new technologies to question and radically redefine the conventions of art, and to tackle some of the most pressing social, political, and ethical issues of the day. Covering email art, Web sites, artist-designed software, and projects that blur the boundaries between art and design, product development, political activism, and communication, Internet Art shows how artists have employed online technologies to engage with the traditions of art history, to create new forms of art, and to move into fields of activity normally beyond the artistic realm. The book investigates the ways Internet art resists and shifts assumptions about authorship, originality, and intellectual property; the social role of the artist; issues of identity, sexuality, economics, and power; and the place of the individual in the virtual, networked age. Throughout, the views of artists, curators, and critics offer an insider's perspective on the subject, while a timeline and glossary provide easy-to-follow guides to the key works, events, and technological developments that have taken art into the twenty-first century.
Call Number: N7433.8 .G73 2004
Art and Electronic Media by Edward A. Shanken (Editor); Kristin Fiore (Contribution by); Martin L. Johnson (Contribution by) Edward A. Shanken gives a lucid evaluation of the subject, contextualizing it in a broader art-historical and political framework. A comprehensive survey, his essay also addresses the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology, and how art can 'humanize and mythologize' science. Divided into seven thematic sections, the book follows a broadly chronological approach.
Call Number: N7433.8 .A78 2009
New Media in Art by Michael Rush In the past fifty years especially, ideas about time and duration have reinstated narrative in art, via filmmaking and video, the theatricality of happenings, performance and installation art, digitally manipulated photography, and virtual reality.
Call Number: N6494.M78 R88 2005
Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990 by Steina Vasulka (Editor) In the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo was the place to be. It was there, in 1973, well before any other university had a program explicitly devoted to media art, that Gerald O'Grady founded a media study program that is now legendary.
Call Number: P91.5.U5 B84 2008
The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology by Josephine Bosma (Text by); Megan Driscoll (Text by); Michael Connor (Editor); Aria Dean (Editor); Manuel Arturo Abreu (Text by)
Call Number: NX180.I57 A78 2019

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MLA Handbook, 9th Edition by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2021
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition
Call Number: REF Z253 .C453 U558 2024