TY - BOOK
T1 - The Metainterface
T2 - The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds
AU - Andersen, Christian Ulrik
AU - Pold, Søren
PY - 2018/4/25
Y1 - 2018/4/25
N2 - Metainterface is about interface aesthetics and culture, and as an analytical strategy, it focuses on the tendency in art that reflects the contemporary interface; that is, on readings of artworks. In this sense, it presents contemporary art works, but it also reflects on the current challenges of contemporary interface culture in a situation where the computer’s interface seemingly both becomes omnipresent and invisible; where it at once is embedded in everyday objects and characterised by hidden exchanges of information between objects; or, what it conceptualizes as a metainterface. By bringing the tendency in artworks forward, the book aims to demonstrate how certain critical interfaces have an ability to reflect the deeper fissures within new technologies and the production of the work of art itself; an ability to show us an interface, after the interface has seemingly disappeared into ‘smart’ futures and new promises of anticipation, participation, and emancipation
AB - Metainterface is about interface aesthetics and culture, and as an analytical strategy, it focuses on the tendency in art that reflects the contemporary interface; that is, on readings of artworks. In this sense, it presents contemporary art works, but it also reflects on the current challenges of contemporary interface culture in a situation where the computer’s interface seemingly both becomes omnipresent and invisible; where it at once is embedded in everyday objects and characterised by hidden exchanges of information between objects; or, what it conceptualizes as a metainterface. By bringing the tendency in artworks forward, the book aims to demonstrate how certain critical interfaces have an ability to reflect the deeper fissures within new technologies and the production of the work of art itself; an ability to show us an interface, after the interface has seemingly disappeared into ‘smart’ futures and new promises of anticipation, participation, and emancipation
KW - Interface
KW - Interface Aesthetics
KW - Interface Criticism
KW - interface culture
KW - electronic literature
KW - Digital Art
KW - Software studies, Interface criticism, digital culture, computer games
U2 - 10.7551/mitpress/11041.003.0010
DO - 10.7551/mitpress/11041.003.0010
M3 - Book
SN - 9780262037945
BT - The Metainterface
PB - MIT Press
CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England
ER -