Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction -- Thanks -- I. Art and Technology in Japan -- Some Intersections -- II. From Disenchantment to Re-enchantment -- III. Media Art and the Future -- Epilog -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Backmatter
Summary
Why do Japanese artists team up with engineers in order to create so-called "Device Art"? What is a nanoscientist's motivation in approaching the artworld? In the past few years, there has been a remarkable increase in attempts to foster the exchange between art, technology, and science - an exchange taking place in academies, museums, or even in research laboratories. Media art has proven especially important in the dialogue between these cultural fields. This book is a contribution to the current debate on "art & science", interdisciplinarity, and the discourse of innovation. It critically assesses artistic positions that appear as the ongoing attempt to localize art's position within technological and societal change - between now and the future
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257)
