Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow Volume 20

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the digitization of daily life.

Contributors: Sharon Daniel, U of California, Santa Cruz
Steve Deitz, Carleton College
Lynn Hershman Leeson, U of California, Davis
George Legrady, U of California, Santa Barbara
Eduardo Kac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Norman Klein, California Institute of the Arts
John Klima
Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego
Robert F. Nideffer, U of California, Irvine
Nancy Paterson, Ontario College of Art and Design
Christiane Paul, School of Visual Arts in New York
Marko Peljhan, U of California, Santa Barbara
Warren Sack, U of California, Santa Cruz
Bill Seaman, Rhode Island School of Design
Grahame Weinbren, School of Visual Arts, New York.

Victoria Vesna is a media artist, and professor and chair of the Department of Design and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.