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Title Media art and the urban environment : engendering public engagement with urban ecology / Francis T. Marchese, editor
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
©2015

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Description xiv, 299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Series Future city, 1876-0899 ; volume 5
Future city ; v. 5.
Contents Toward an ecological urbanism : public engagement in contemporary art practice / Maria Michails -- Exploring environmental stewardship through data-driven practices / Tega Brain and Jodi Newcombe -- Experiential ecologies : a transdisciplinary framework for embodiment and simulacra / Grisha Coleman and Daragh Byrne -- Uncultivated : an evolutionary drama in the urban environment / Lynn Cazabon -- Alone together in the dark : horror-based artworks and fan participation in urban and extra-urban space / Jillian McDonald -- Mobile maps of chameleonic cities : urban cartographies and methodological procedures and experiences / Pedro Marra and Carmen Aroztegui Massera -- Electric signs / Alice Arnold -- Overload/absence : the collapse of space to surface in representations of urban space / Annette Weintraub -- Design as topology : u-city / Ulrik Ekman -- The emergent city : 2004-2012 / Stanza -- The art of urban engagement / Francis T. Marchese -- Our place on that wall : community online art projects / Vaughn Whitney Garland -- Digitized street art / Brian A. Brown -- Solar cycle 24 : 15 nightly projections / Malin Abrahamsson
Summary "This illuminating text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing, and connecting within the urban setting. Across fourteen chapters, the book describes how state-of-the-art technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology's original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being addressed"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computer art.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
urban environments.
ART -- Digital.
Computer art
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Computerkunst
Neue Medien
Stadtökologie
Datorkonst.
Teknik i konsten.
Urbana samhällen.
Genre/Form digital art (visual works)
Digital art
Digital art.
Arts numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Marchese, Francis T., 1949- editor.
LC no. 2015936191
ISBN 3319151525
9783319151526