Information

Beschrijving

Anthologie met teksten over het gebruik van informatie binnen het artistieke veld vanaf de jaren '60. Reader geeft een overzicht het onderzoek naar verborgen codes, structuren, sociaal-politieke interactie en netwerken. Met bijdragen van o.a. David Askevold, Stephen Willats, Guy Bleus en anderen . - This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark exhibitions as "Information" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970, and the equally influential "Les Immatériaux," initiated by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 1984.While information science draws distinctions between "information," signals, and data, artists from the 1960s to the present have questioned the validity and value of such boundaries. Artists have investigated information's materiality, in signs, records, and traces; its immateriality, in hidden codes, structures, and flows; its embodiment, in instructions, social interaction, and political agency; its overload, or uncontrollable excess, challenging utopian notions of networked society; its potential for misinformation and disinformation, subliminally altering our perceptions; and its post-digital unruliness, unsettling fixed notions of history and place