Database Aesthetics: Art In The Age Of Information Overflow Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction   Victoria Vesna     ix
Database Aesthetics
Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of Everything   Victoria Vesna     3
Database as Symbolic Form   Lev Manovich     39
Ocean, Database, Recut   Grahame Weinbren     61
Waiting for the World to Explode: How Data Convert into a Novel   Norman M. Klein     86
The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives   Christiane Paul     95
The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0   Steve Dietz     110
Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics   Bill Seaman     121
The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity   Sharon Daniel     142
Network Aesthetics   Warren Sack     183
Game Engines as Embedded Systems   Robert F. Nideffer     211
Artists and Data Projects
Stock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface, and an Idea   Nancy Paterson     233
Pockets Full of Memories   George Legrady     243
The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies, and the Shape of Things to Come   Lynn Hershman-Leeson     249
Time Capsule:Networking the Biological [Biotech and Trauma]   Eduardo Kac     253
Aesthetics of ecosystm   John Klima     260
Polar   Marko Peljhan     269
Publication History     279
Contributors     281
Index     285