{"product_id":"contemporary-art-and-digital-culture-hardback","title":"Contemporary Art and Digital Culture - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContemporary Art and Digital Culture\u003c\/em\u003e analyses the impact of the internet and digital technologies upon art today. Art over the last fifteen years has been deeply inflected by the rise of the internet as a mass cultural and socio-political medium, while also responding to urgent economic and political events, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book looks at how contemporary art addresses digitality, circulation, privacy, and globalisation, and suggests how feminism and gender binaries have been shifted by new mediations of identity. It situates current artistic practice both in canonical art history and in technological predecessors such as cybernetics and net.art, and takes stock of how the art-world infrastructure has reacted to the internet’s promises of democratisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary art – especially those studying history of art and art practice and theory – as well as those working in film, media, curation, or art education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Gronlund is a writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in the moving image. From 2007–2015, she was co-editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eAfterall\u003c\/i\u003e, and her writing has appeared there and in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNewYorker.com,\u003c\/i\u003e and many other places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45584032497902,"sku":"9781138936386","price":244.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138936386.jpg?v=1721105760","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/contemporary-art-and-digital-culture-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}