Title Screen ecologies : art, media, and the environment in the Asia-Pacific region / Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages) : illustrations Series Leonardo book series Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) Contents Media, art, climate, publics -- Connections and disconnections -- Screen cultures in the Asia-Pacific -- Platforms for public engagements -- Art, critique, and climate change -- Emergent paradigms for collaboration -- Greening intimate publics -- Refiguring art, media, and environment Summary Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region -- a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Art and society -- Pacific Area -- History -- 21st century Art and technology -- Pacific Area -- History -- 21st century Art -- Pacific Area -- 21st century -- Themes, motives Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area -- History -- 21st century ART -- General. Climatic changes -- Social aspects Art -- Themes, motives Art and technology Art and society Kunst Neue Medien Gesellschaft Klimaänderung Motiv Pacific Area Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Pink, Sarah, author. Sharp, Kristen, author. Williams, Linda, 1946- author. LC no. 2015039891 ISBN 9780262334013 0262334011 9780262334006 0262334003

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