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Announcing networked · Saturday August 1, 2009
I’m really thrilled to announce today networked a (networked_book) about (networked_art). The website, designed and developed by me for / with Turbulence, invites users to participate in commentary, translation, and the writing / re-writing of essays about networked art. The site was built using WordPress, CommentPress, and BuddyPress as a platform.
networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and / or participatory art must itself be interactive and / or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a “book” might take.
In 2008, Turbulence and its project partners — newmediaFIX, Telic Arts Exchange, and Freewaves – issued an international, open call for chapter proposals. We invited contributions that critically and creatively rethink how networked art is categorized, analyzed, legitimized — and by whom — as norms of authority, trust, authenticity, and legitimacy evolve.
The international committee consisted of: Steve Dietz (Northern Lights, MN), Martha Gabriel (net artist, Brazil), Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures, The Netherlands), Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MA), Anne Bray (LA Freewaves, LA), Sean Dockray (Telic Arts Exchange, LA), Jo-Anne Green (NRPA, MA), Eduardo Navas (newmediaFIX), Helen Thorington (NRPA, NY)
networked was made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (United States).
» Matt
