Bloomsbury Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media (Bloomsbury New Media Series)

Product Description Digital Arts presents an introduction to new media art through key debates and theories. The volume begins with the historical contexts of the digital arts, discusses contemporary forms, and concludes with current and future trends in distribution and archival processes. Considering the imperative of artists to adopt new technologies, the chapters of the book progressively present a study of the impact of the digital on art, as well as the exhibition, distribution and archiving of artworks.Alongside case studies that illustrate contemporary research in the fields of digital arts, reflections and questions provide opportunities for readers to explore relevant terms, theories and examples. Consistent with the other volumes in the New Media series, a bullet-point summary and a further reading section enhance the introductory focus of each chapter. Review Digital Art tendencies and terms, both contemporary and historical,  along with  artists' innovations, both visionary and practical, are brought together in this immensely readable and well structured  study of those arts of our time that have grown from the digital seeds planted in the previous century. All the branches are there, and many of the fruits they have borne, harvested  with critical consideration and presented with scholarly insight. --Roy Ascott, President of the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University, and DeTao Master of Technoetic Arts, DTMA, Shanghai About the Author Cat Hope is Associate Professor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. She is an active composer and performer who also works in video art and installation. John Charles Ryan is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is an internationally published poet with interests in the digital humanities and ecocriticism.