Essays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art
forms engaged with the Internet. Since the turn of the millennium,
the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a
true mass medium-with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater
opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex
corporate and political realities. 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. Mass Effect
brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly
commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed
discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections
from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and
bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial
platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing
surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as
"postinternet." Other contributions analyze and document particular
works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao
Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others. Mass Effect relaunches
a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum
in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of
contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic
partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary
culture once again. Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is
missing some of the images found in the physical edition.
Contributors Cory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Michael Bell-Smith,
Claire Bishop, Dora Budor, Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng,
Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Petra Cortright, Jesse Darling,
Anne de Vries, DIS, Aleksandra Domanovic, Harm van den Dorpel,
Dragan Espenschied, Rozsa Zita Farkas, Azin Feizabadi, Alexander R.
Galloway, Boris Groys, Ed Halter, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Jogging,
Caitlin Jones, David Joselit, Dina Kafafi, John Kelsey, Alex
Kitnick, Tina Kukielski, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, David Levine,
Olia Lialina, Guthrie Lonergan, Jordan Lord, Jens Maier-Rothe,
Shawn Maximo, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Gene McHugh, Tom Moody,
Ceci Moss, Katja Novitskova, Marisa Olson, Trevor Paglen, Seth
Price, Alexander Provan, Morgan Quaintance, Domenico Quaranta, Raqs
Media Collective, Alix Rule, Timur Si-Qin, Josephine Berry Slater,
Paul Slocum, Rebecca Solnit, Wolfgang Staehle, Hito Steyerl,
Martine Syms, Ben Vickers, Michael Wang, Tim Whidden, Anicka Yi,
and Damon Zucconi
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